I undertsand your comment but I am in "management" and I do not consider myslef a "Moron". I will agree that there are a percentage of managers who do not understand the booth, or what proper presentaion is for that matter but some of us do. What if I said "If 90% of projectionists were managers then all theatres would go broke." That is not true and it is not true that 90% of managers are morons... ony 85%.

Unfortunately sometimes your hands are tied. Say you have a movie like 8 Mile that you know will do good business at your tiny ten screen and you only have one print. You have take the opportunity to get as many rear ends in the seats as possible because you have budgets to meet etc.. So you schedule say only a half an hour between shows and say you have 300 people in the lobby waiting and 3 people watching the credits? I think the reasonable policy in this situation would be to start cleaning but ONLY BEHIND anyone who is still the theatre and as quiet as possible. Business is not a perfect world, and unfortunately theatres are a business. You have to do what you have to do sometimes.

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I certainly am not saying that you are a moron. You may fall into that 10 (or 15) percent. 10 percent of so many people is still quite a large amount. And I wasn't referring to the amount of knowledge that managers have of the booth. I am referring to the way many managers treat customers.

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Same type of person who takes all the credit for projects that they were not involved with (projection service work) and reaps the promotions and financial rewards w/o passing anything down to those who actually made it happen.

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Don't you know the six stages of any project?

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If the patrons want to leave, let them do it with just the isle and runner lights -- if they whack a shin bone, well, hey, thems the breaks -- sometimes the movie gods seek painful retribution for people who disrespect The Credits!

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To tell you the truth, I could care less either way if people watch the credits or not. I let them roll uninterupted untill the closing studio logo. I even had one guy sitting back and rock out to the closing music of XXX and found that very entertaining. I'm usually busy trying to catch the tail as it is coming thru the projector and not let it hit the floor.

Even though the theater has good isle lighting, I do beleive in raising the house lights at least half way for safety purposes.

...people using "it's" when it should be "its". As a possessive (something that belongs to or is associated with something else) there is no apostrophe just like there is none in "his" and "hers." It only gets an apostrophe when it is a contraction of "it is" so if you imagine substituting "it is" in your sentence and it doesn't sound proper then drop the ' because it doesn't belong.

Of course when I make one of my myriad typos it's (yes, this passes the "it is" test so the ' stays) because I am just testing you!

"Now quit your jaw jacking and listen up! Mail Call will be right back!-- R.Lee Ermey

Now where is THAT written in the Constitution? I don't think you will find it..the Right to leave during credits has not been approved by any state that I'm aware.

However, I think credits are much like a bibliography to a book...good for reference but in no way part of the story and non-essential. Back in the good old days...it was just THE END and possibly followed by "The Players."

Put the credits in the beginning and let it go at that...people will sit through those. Heck, it can be kinda fun to see just how far into the film the credits go. Some films intersperse them on and off for most of the 1st reel.

Steve

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For those that consider the credits to be non-essential or not a part of the movie at all then it would be alright for the projectionist to cut it off and splice them back on at breakdown time and absolutely no one will have a problem with it or just place the outboard cue at the beginning of the credits.

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It is a part of the movie and if ushers come in and clean be it behind or infront of the customers making noise, the projectionist stopping the projector, customers blocking the way as they are leaving, etc. then the customers should be able to get a refund.

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