Japan Times Aug.17の記事 'Meatball Machine Kodoku': Proud to be a bloody messからの抜粋です。
In a career spanning three decades, Yoshihiro Nishimura has done about every job on the credit crawl — from gaffer to director. He is best known, however, as a mad master of effects and makeup, spewing blood sprays that achieve a certain demented grandeur and building fantastic creatures that resemble raging piles of medical waste with body parts attached.
"credit crawl" の意味がピンときません。辞書で調べましたが、一般的な辞書には "credit crawl" の項目は見当たりません。しかし次の辞書に説明がありました。
・The TV Handbook & Dictionary: "The Crawl" is slang for the closing title credits (from the fact that one method of presentation is to have the names crawl or move upward from the bottom to the top of the screen). It's nice to have your name on "the crawl".
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Such moving titles are called Crawling Titles, Creeping Titles, Roller Titles, Roll Titles, The Title Crawl, The Copy Crawl, The Credit Crawl or simply The Crawl quite a lot of titles for a title!
なるほど、映画の最後に出演者などの名前をゆっくりと映し出す場面ですね。
一般の辞書には "credit" の説明はもちろんあります。
・Collins Dictionary: The list of people who helped to make a film, a CD, or a television programme is called the credits.: The star Marlon Brando wants his name removed from the credits.
In a career spanning three decades, Yoshihiro Nishimura has done about every job on the credit crawl — from gaffer to director. He is best known, however, as a mad master of effects and makeup, spewing blood sprays that achieve a certain demented grandeur and building fantastic creatures that resemble raging piles of medical waste with body parts attached.
"credit crawl" の意味がピンときません。辞書で調べましたが、一般的な辞書には "credit crawl" の項目は見当たりません。しかし次の辞書に説明がありました。
・The TV Handbook & Dictionary: "The Crawl" is slang for the closing title credits (from the fact that one method of presentation is to have the names crawl or move upward from the bottom to the top of the screen). It's nice to have your name on "the crawl".
...
Such moving titles are called Crawling Titles, Creeping Titles, Roller Titles, Roll Titles, The Title Crawl, The Copy Crawl, The Credit Crawl or simply The Crawl quite a lot of titles for a title!
なるほど、映画の最後に出演者などの名前をゆっくりと映し出す場面ですね。
一般の辞書には "credit" の説明はもちろんあります。
・Collins Dictionary: The list of people who helped to make a film, a CD, or a television programme is called the credits.: The star Marlon Brando wants his name removed from the credits.
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