Video Credits

Don't call me Shirley.

At the beginning of the Closing Credits, a short clip of each of the major characters is shown and caption shows the actor's name. The clips are usually from scenes earlier in the show/film, but sometimes they might be extra footage.

Examples of Video Credits include:

Films -- Animation

• Shrek 2 and Shrek Forever After
• Robin Hood does this at the beginning (as Disney Animated Canon films didn't have full closing credits until The Eighties, preferring simple "The End" title cards).

Films -- Live-Action

• 1941
• Absolute Beginners
• Airplane!
• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
• The Blues Brothers, Coming to America, and Trading Places, all directed by John Landis
• Bustin' Loose
• Chicago
• Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, the first two films directed by Orson Welles. Welles did not include himself in the video credits for Kane despite playing the lead role, instead burying his own credit at the bottom of a quick list of minor characters. For The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles not only had video credits but narrated video credits, with Welles reading off the actors' names as they appear in turn ("Joseph Cotten played Eugene Morgan") and reading off the crew's names with appropriate video clips (for example, a shot of a film camera as Welles says "the photographer (i.e., cinematographer) was Stanley Cortez").
• City Limits reminded us which of the cast survived the film by listing them by [Actor] is/was [Character] (e.g. John Stockwell is Lee; Dean Devlin was Ernie), except for the Special Appearances By credits (Special Appearance by Robbie Benson as Carver; and James Earl Jones as Albert).
• The Comedy of Terrors
• Con Air
• Delicatessen
• Dogma
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It featured credits like this framed in ornamental picture (or possibly mirror) frames
• The Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials always did this at the beginning of their first few chapters. The later episodes of each serial would omit the cast portraits.
• Half Past Dead 2
• Inside Man
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Kill Bill, at the end of the second film.
• The Little Rascals (1994)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986 version)
• Manos: The Hands Of Fate—for all the good it did them.
• Mash
• Mr. Bean's Holiday
• Not Another Teen Movie
• OSS 117 Cairo Nest of Spies.
• Predator (with new footage of everyone laughing and happy, except for a truly scared Arnie)
• The Princess Bride
• The Producers (original film only)
• The Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
• Played with in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, where only the big-name cameos are featured this way.
• Seed of Chucky
• All the Scream films
• The 2009 edition of Sherlock Holmes
• The Sting: The opening credits.
• Stuart Little 2
• 12 Angry Men. Somewhat necessary, considering that no character is named onscreen.
• Seemed to have been popular with shot-on-video horror films, such as Sledgehammer, Cannibal Campout and Satan Claus
• Windtalkers

Live-Action TV

• A fair number of BBC sitcoms (all written by David Croft) of the '70s and '80s, including:
  • Dads Army
  • Allo Allo
  • Hi-de-Hi!—though the actors are not in character. This is particularly noticable with Diane Holland (who plays snobbish Yvonne) and Leslie Dwyer (who plays miserable old man Mr Partridge) as both actors generally beam happily in the credits.
  • Are You Being Served: Since the episodes are practically teleplays, the clips are of the actors—sometimes not in-character—after completing the episode.
  • And even into the '90s with Grace And Favour (a.k.a. Are You Being Served Again), You Rang, M'Lord?, and Oh Doctor Beeching (about the last series to use them).
• Skins (series finale only)
• Many MTM sitcoms did this for the supporting cast and guest stars, including The Bob Newhart Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
• Miranda does it too, as a loving parody of the sitcoms of the 70s, although there is No Fourth Wall during them, and the actors wave to the camera.
• Done in Ashes to Ashes. Set to heart-warming music the finale credits feature clips of the characters laughing and smiling. All the more touching as you realise just how little they did it and the overly devastating theme of the final episode.
• Many of the intros to Only Fools and Horses did this with the three main characters.