Motion Picture Credits - Closing Credits

Closing credits, in a television program, motion picture, or video game come at the end of a show and list all the cast and crew involved in the production. Almost all television and film productions omit the names of orchestra members from the closing credits, instead citing the name of the orchestra and sometimes not even that. They are usually shown on the screen in small characters, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or scroll from bottom to top of the screen. Credits which scroll either left-to-right or up-and-down are also known as rolling credits, which comes from pre digital days when the names were literally on a roll of paper and would pass in front of the camera. Increasingly, post-credits scenes are being added to the end of films.