Closing credits or
end credits are added at the very ending of a
motion picture,
television program, or
video game to list the
cast and
crew involved in the production. They usually appear as a list of names in small type, which either flip very quickly from page to page, or move smoothly across the background or a black screen. Credits may crawl either right-to-left (which is common in
U.K. and some
Latin American television programs) or bottom-to-top (which is common in films and U.S. television). The term
credit roll comes from the early production days when the names were literally printed on a roll of paper and wound past the camera lens. Sometimes,
post-credits scenes or
bloopers are added to the end of films along with the closing credits.