Due credit
It wasn’t until I became a home viewer that I realised the role of the dramatic performer had faded into total insignificance.
I’m talking TV credits, which in my day acted as the profession’s ‘shop window’ and in which essential acknowledgements preceded film or feature, simply finishing ‘The End’.
Credits would later ‘trail’ most shows. Heady times these when to be ‘above credits’ was an actor’s be all and end all.
In days of which I write - the Swinging Sixties - TV productions went out live. Yet while pace was the name of the game, final credits - the acknowledgment of everyone working on the production - rolled slow enough for all to read. Acknowledgements that helped secured many of the cast’s - sometimes production’s - next booking.
Now, if or when credits appear, they roll past so fast it is impossible to read them.
The reason for this is obvious - credits don’t sell programmes.
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