Well, this appears not to be covered by the rules.

As a personal preference, since DP and composer are main credits which are almost always in the opening credits, I'd say take those.

The Rules do indicate that the primary source is the End credits. Personal preferemnce has no place in the data entry EVER, except for locally. While it is not directly addressed for Crew, it is clearly defined as relates to Cast data. I think it follows in this case as well.

Keyword; Personal Prefernce cver, that will almost ALWAYS be wrong and difficult to support

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Quoting Jubal:

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The Rules do indicate that the primary source is the End credits. Personal preferemnce has no place in the data entry EVER, except for locally. While it is not directly addressed for Crew, it is clearly defined as relates to Cast data. I think it follows in this case as well.

Keyword; Personal Prefernce cver, that will almost ALWAYS be wrong and difficult to support

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I totally understand your argument skip, but I applied some logic to my personal preference. 99.99% of all movies that have opening credits, will have composer and DP in the opening credits, not in the closing credits. Why they chose to repeat a few credits, and with different spelling is beyond me.
So I'd say, logic clearly dictates (too much star trek forum stuff lately  ) take the credits from the opening credits. Unless the CLT would suggest otherwise, but as TheMovieman stated, none of them were in the db yet.

Except cver, as I noted your idea is inconsistent with the Rules.

It makes no difference what the Rules say, just do whatever you want.


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Yeah, but Movieman just went with whatever made him happy, that's why I made the second comment. The Rules don't matter, don't worry about consistency just do what you want.

It's not a common problem, i have run into it and the Rules very clearly tell me how to do it with consistency as i explained. In such an instance as has been described, WHY would we go EXACTLY the opposite direction from what the Rules say for Cast data. Perhaps Movieman can explain this.

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Whew, no need to get so annoyed. I explained it, and Pete agreed. And then your next post you said you went the opposite direction. The important thing was I got your attention on it. Glad to see you simply misread it, do you know how manyt times that happens to all of us, including me.

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Mistakes are OK, as long as we get it caught.

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Not as I see it, Unicus not as i see it at all. But its over and done now

Perhaps you can explain it, unicus. As I noted one could argue that it is not covered by the Rules. Yet regarding Cast data where this situation was well-known to occur when the Rukles were written, we gave specific instructions. So can you explain why you would go in 180 degrees the opposite direction just because it is crew data, that is inconsistent data handling in my book.

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