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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Film Not to Get All Fatalistic or Anything...

Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:02 PM

...but this collection of The End title cards of old movies is really pretty nice. I've always been fond of the way old movies end, when the soundtrack swells to a crescendo and "THE END" comes up on the screen, in case there was any doubt the movie was over. Here is my favorite one from the photostream, and it goes nicely with Charles's new pirate obsession:

Piratepartyend.jpg

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ThEnd?
Posted by Dave in Chicago on November 20, 2008 at 12:06 PM
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What? No "FIN"?
Posted by COMTE on November 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM
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#1,

I'm surprised that I
I didn't notice that.
Posted by w7ngman on November 20, 2008 at 12:38 PM
4
I was amazed at how many I recognized.

#2 If you look at them all there are a lot of "Fin"s.
Posted by elswinger on November 20, 2008 at 2:14 PM
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Also it was a time before 1000s of credits followed the end making a 90 min movie a 110 min movie
Posted by g on November 20, 2008 at 2:41 PM

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