Movies have huge credit rolls that tell you everyone involved from the director down to the person who made the cups of tea. But why? I can understand why actors, who need exposure to maintain a career, would want this. But is it important for the person who drove the truck full of props around to be credited for their future prospects?

You don’t see a plaque when you walk into a building listing everyone who laid a brick as part of the construction. I assume there’s a historical reason why the entertainment industry, and only the entertainment industry does this.

Edit: To all those that took my geniune question about what historically lead to this, and turned it into accusations of me being some sort of thoughtless “asshole”, what is even the point of someone trying to contribute to these online communities if you are just going to be made to feel horrible?

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
    122·
    1 day ago

    In short, proof.

    They’re working project to project. Each one is basically a new company. Each one a new employment. It’s their resume.

    • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
      141·
      1 day ago

      Not quite so much - credits aren’t exhausive or truly accurate, theyre “best efforts”. Employment is word-of-mouth. If you wanted the B-camera grip from a particular film, you’d know someone who’d know someone who’d know who that was, regardless of what credits might claim.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
        3·
        14 hours ago

        I can’t disagree. Nothing is absolute. Word of mouth is always valuable and no matter what credits you’ve got under your belt if you’ve been blackballed you’re never going to work again but still I feel my point stands.

        2 things can be true.

      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
        3·
        19 hours ago

        I agree with you, but my brain was like… there really is no way to verify employment when company no longer exists. That is just an interesting point to me. I suppose it could be relevant for people who work for more than just Hollywood. But inside Hollywood, I have heard that it is like you say, a lot of word of mouth. Probably enables all sorts of middlemen that trade in that kind of info.