evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) (04/25/85)
I was asked to send out a copy of the (wonderful) credits from Monty Python
and the Holy Grail. Though they are long, I will type in an edited version
of them for the net.movies posting.
They are presented as a series of full-screen frames, followed in many cases
by a small subtitle at the bottom. (These are taken from the book of the
movie, published by Methuen, in 1977.)
Notes: they are presented on black background with incredibly somber music
playing in the background. Almost funeral dirge type music.
Also, a slash (/) following an o indicates that the o was slashed, as in
Swedish or Norwegian, and a colon (:) following an e means that the e has
two dots (an umlaut?) over it. I think the rest is clear.
Screen 1:
written and performed by (the gang)
then, at the bottom: "Ro/tern nik Akten Di"
Screen 2:
with (some other people)
then: "wik"
Screen 3/4:
Also appearing / Also also appearing (more names)
then: "Also wik" / "Also also wik"
Screen 5:
Camera people and the like
then: "Wi no/t trei a ho/liday in Sweden this ye:r?
Screen 6:
Sound people and the like
then: "See the lo/veli lakes"
Screen 7:
Other credits
then: "The wo/nde:rful telepho/ne system"
Screen 8:
More other credits
then: "And mani interesting furry animals"
Screen 9:
Miscellaneous serious legal stuff
then: the usual note about similarities to living people, but it is
signed Richard M. Nixon
then: "Including the majestic mo/o/se"
Screen 10:
Songs etc.
then: "A Mo/o/se once bit my sister."
Screen 11:
Costume Designer
then: "No realli! She was Karving her initials on the mo/o/se with the
sharpened end of an interspace to/o/thbrush given her by Svenge -
her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many No/rwegian
movies: 'The Ho/t Hands of an Oslo Dentist', 'Fillings of Passion',
'The Huge Mo/lars of Nordfink'"
Screen 12:
In larger letters: We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those
responsible have been sacked.
then: "Mynd you, mo/o/se bites can be pretty nasti...
Screen 13:
In the same large letters: We apologise for the fault in the subtitles.
Those responsible for sacking the people who have been sacked have just been
sacked.
Screen 14:
Back to the original credit size...
some serious credits, but the last 2 are...
Animation Assistance...Lucinda Cowell, Kate Hepburn
Mo/o/se trained by...Tutte Hermsgervo/rdenbro/tbo/rda
Screen 15:
Designer...Roy Smith
Mo/o/se choreographed by...Horst Prot III
Miss Taylor's Mo/o/se's by...Hengst Douglas-Home
Mo/o/se trained to mix concrete and sign complicated insurance
forms by...Jurgen Wigg
Screen 16:
Editor...John Hackney
Mo/o/se's noses wiped by...Bjorn Irkestrom-Slater Walker
Large mo/o/se on the left half side of the screen in the 3rd scene
from the end given a thorough grounding in Latin, French, and "O" level
geography by...Bo Benn
Suggestive poses for the Mo/o/se suggested by...Vic Rotter
Antler-care by...Liv Thatcher
Screen 17:
The directors of the film hired to continue the credits after the other
people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.
The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great
expense, and at the last minute.
Screen 18:
Music has changed to whooping and screaming and exciting stuff, and all
credits are black on flashing yellow background...
Executive Producer...John Goldstone & Ralph The Wonder Llama
Screen 19:
Producer...Mark Forstater
Assisted by...Earl J. Llama
Mike Q. Llama III
Sy Llama
Merle Z. Llama IX
Screen 20:
Directed by...40 Specially trained Ecuadorian Mountain Llamas
6 Venezuelan Red Llamas
142 Mexican Whooping Llamas
14 North Chilean Guanacos
(closely related to the llama)
Reg Llama of Brixton
76000 Battery Llamas from "Llama-Fresh" farms Ltd.
near Paraguay
and...Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
Whew! More typing than I thought. Enjoy them.
--Evan Marcus
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