Anyone have an idea of which film was the first to include a post credit moment?
That's a very interesting question. I know there was some point in film history before which there weren't end credits -- they'd put the cast and crew in the beginning and then just fade out and cut to "A Paramount Picture" or whatever. I don't know when end credits started, though.
Wow. Wikipedia is awesome. They link the post-credits stinger to James Bond, where the notice, "James Bond will return in..." ran at the end of the credits (I'd felt sure that was riffing off some serials from the 30s or something, but I guess not), and say the first proper scene may have been after The Muppet Movie, 1979, which if I recall played a few games with the cinema format. (Didn't they burn through the film at one point in that movie, then cut to a scene in a cinema? Or was that the sequel?)
BUT, their timeline of post-credit scene films begins with Tales From the Crypt, 1972. Starring, of all people, Ralph Richardson as the Crypt Keeper (he was God in Time Bandits, and the fellow Tarzan inherits his estate from in Greystoke).
I'm quite surprised there are no examples listed from the 1960s -- something like The Magic Christian or Casino Royale seem like they'd mess around with credits. But I can't remember anything specific, personally. |
