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| Registered: April 13, 2007 |  Posts: 651 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm doing an audit on Get Smart, and in opening credits there are listed: Based on characters created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. How to credit them:
1: Original Characters by
2: Created by
3: Original Characters by & Created by | | | "What's God?"
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  | T!M | | Profiling since Dec. 2000 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 8,736 |
| | Posted: | | | | 1: Original Characters by
At least: that's what I'd do. Two separate credits (like "created by" and "original characters by") doesn't seem appropriate as it really is only a single credit. If the credit said merely said "created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry", then I'd use "created by", but that's not the case here. I'll do one more: if the credit had said "based on the television series 'Get Smart', created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry", then I'd have used "original material by". As it is, my choice would be OCB. But hey: someone's bound to have a different opinion, I'm afraid... | | | | Last edited: by T!M |
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| Registered: April 13, 2007 | | Posts: 651 |
| | Posted: | | | | thank you | | | "What's God?"
"You know when you want something really bad and you wish for it?, God's the guy that ignores you"
-The Island, Steve Buscemi |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,414 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm with T!M on this one. OCB. | | | | "This movie has warped my fragile little mind." |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 13,202 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting gardibolt: Quote:
I'm with T!M on this one. OCB. Me too. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sounds self-explanatory to me. OCB
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | Created by, in this instance, refers to the characters not Get Smart. OCB only. |
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| Registered: April 13, 2007 | | Posts: 651 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thank you all for those answers  | | | "What's God?"
"You know when you want something really bad and you wish for it?, God's the guy that ignores you"
-The Island, Steve Buscemi |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | "Based on characters created by" is not listed in the rules and may not be contributed until functional equivalents will be allowed. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
"Based on characters created by" is not listed in the rules and may not be contributed until functional equivalents will be allowed. Yeah....right, Rho. Try and sell that one. Sheesh. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
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| Registered: August 22, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,807 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bentyman: Quote:
I'm doing an audit on Get Smart, and in opening credits there are listed: Based on characters created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry. How to credit them:
1: Original Characters by
2: Created by
3: Original Characters by & Created by My choice would be 1. The rules for the OCB credit don't give any example in the "credited as" column, but the notes explain when to use OCB: "Used for screenplays based on characters from another work, credit the author of the characters here. For example comic adaptations and sequels." | | | | -- Enry |
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| Registered: August 4, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,441 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting T!M: Quote:
1: Original Characters by
At least: that's what I'd do. Two separate credits (like "created by" and "original characters by") doesn't seem appropriate as it really is only a single credit. If the credit said merely said "created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry", then I'd use "created by", but that's not the case here. I'll do one more: if the credit had said "based on the television series 'Get Smart', created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry", then I'd have used "original material by". As it is, my choice would be OCB. But hey: someone's bound to have a different opinion, I'm afraid... It seems to me the same of Star Trek films credits for Roddenberry (based on Star Trek created by GR), and I'm with you. | | | | Updated List of Accepted Birth Years |
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