Which movie did top-to-bottom credits first?

One of the many notable things about modern film-noir Seven was its reverse credits (scrolling top to bottom, the opposite to the expected direction).

I recently rewatched the brilliant 1950's film-noir Kiss Me Deadly where the credits do the same, disturbing, thing.

Was Kiss Me Deadly first to disturb its audience this way?

Best Answer

According to IMDb there are only 17 movies (including shorts) that uses this rolling down credits technique, the earliest being just the one you used as example: Kiss Me Deadly (1955).

In the list of movies that match this request there's also, as you mentioned, Seven (1999).

Recently, the movie Next (2007) used this approach, making it the last to do so thus far.

If you consider shorts, there are only two:

Here's the IMDb link to the movie list.

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What was the first movie to move the credits to the end?

Two of the first major films to contain extensive closing credits \u2013 but almost no opening credits \u2013 were the blockbusters Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and West Side Story (1961).

What movie credits come first?

The standard opening credits order starts with the distributing production company, followed by the production company, the filmmaker, the title, and the cast.

When did movie credits move from beginning to end?

Soon, movies would start with a short list of actors' names, which is now known as the opening credits. It wasn't until the 1970s that end credits became a common practice.

What was the first movie without opening credits?

The opening credits for the 1968 film Once Upon a Time in the West lasted for fourteen minutes. The first sound film to begin without any opening credits was Walt Disney's Fantasia, released in 1940.

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