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  • Oh boy. I just reread your edited comments. It’s hard to keep up when you shirt like that

    But yes, I would still care to hear your 40s and 50s examples. If you have one where overture+credits approaches 10 minutes, I’d be shocked. As we’ve discussed, some examples in the 60s can hit 5 minutes, but that’s about the most I’ve seen

  • Which Lawrence of Arabia version from the 40s or 50s (your words) are you referring to?

    If you mean the famous 60s film…. Yes, it has a minute of credits and another 4 or 5 for the overture. Not credits.

    Again, still looking for examples of extended credit sequences. Overtures are basically the same as intermissions. That’s a totally different beast.

    Even if you want to lump them together, we’re still at the “one or two” I mentioned. Huge Hollywood blockbusters. Exceedingly rare.

  • Why do people keep naming 60s films with 4 minutes of musical intros when I’m asking for 40s and 50s films with 10 minute credit intros lol?

    Edit: overture is the word I was looking for, not “musical intro”. But that’s not a thing that happened in early cinema (barring Chaplin, who had strict control of scores - would be interested if someone else cares to google that)

  • 4 minutes. That’s a great example of the rare symphonic opening I was referencing.

    But that’s also not the 40s or 50s.

  • Please name one. Never seen one that had more than 2 minutes of opening credit even if you include the extra symphonic stuff as “credits” (we don’t count previews toward runtimes now, so not sure it’s a fair comparison). Maybe one or two had a dedicated symphonic opening but that was exceedingly rare

  • The Truffaut film referenced is an hour and 45 minutes.

    What movie had 10 minutes of opening credits? Back when credits were at the open, it used to be about 30 seconds of credits.

  • I don’t think anyone thought he was criticizing free speech. Yes, it’s a bad title, but it’s still hilarious to go to Saudi Arabia and pretend like they have more free speech rights

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