[HN Gopher] Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright n... ___________________________________________________________________ Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright notice in the end credits? Author : Lammy Score : 6 points Date : 2023-04-23 22:31 UTC (28 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (movies.stackexchange.com) (TXT) w3m dump (movies.stackexchange.com) | causality0 wrote: | _to "make it difficult for viewers to determine exactly how old | the show is", the reason being the older the date the "staler" | the material may seem to the audience._ | | That might be the most inane take I've heard all week. What's his | idea, that movie theaters predating the concept of home video | were showing old movies and trying to pass them off as new like | nobody would notice if they couldn't read the copyright date? | Specifically movies the audience hasn't seen or heard of, yet | movies new enough their "staleness" wouldn't be given away by the | camera technology and dialogue choices? There's like a hundred | different reasons this "deception" explanation is nonsense. | User23 wrote: | * * * | mattl wrote: | I was always told it was done because it was historically done | that way. | | It looked classy in the 1920s. | ofalkaed wrote: | I find it humorous that people think this is some sort of | deception when it is probably simple tradition. Roman numerals | used to be common and are still used in many places like for | preface/introduction in many books, is that also some sort of | deception? they could certainly used 0-<page number> for that or | even a different font if they needed to separate it from the | pagination of the text but they use these confusing Roman | numerals instead. | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-04-23 23:00 UTC)