# SDMB film credit **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 16, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472 "2005-10-16T15:30:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/1 "2005-10-16T15:30:14Z")
I’m asking a question in GQ about ballistics and forensics so that I can get a certain detail right in a film I might make. (Right now, I’m just planning to make something for my demo reel and the information doesn’t apply. But if I actually go on to make a film the information will help to make it more realistic.) If I make the film, can I put this in the credits? > [@](#): > > Thanks to members of The Straight Dope Message Board for their technical assistance. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/2 "2005-10-16T15:31:25Z")
Of course, it’s your movie. Nice to give credit where it’s due. 🙂 TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/3 "2005-10-16T15:35:27Z")
Thanks, **Tuba**. If it gets made, I’ll put it in. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/4 "2005-10-17T03:04:40Z")
What about any residuals? Who gets to hang on to the Oscar? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunder)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/5 "2005-10-17T03:09:08Z")
You can also thank a moldy slice of pizza for divine inspiration for this mythical film. It would have the same amount of relevence. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/6 "2005-10-17T03:14:05Z")
Just a suggestion. Maybe the credit could be in the “real” credits rather than in the “thanks to” list. E.g., “Technical Assistance: The SDMB”. Then maybe the SDMB would qualify for an entry at IMDB. (And then there could be a “bio” section, some favorites quotes, maybe even have a Bacon number …) ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/7 "2005-10-17T06:02:22Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > What about any residuals? > > Who gets to hang on to the Oscar? > > 😃 Yeah, he’ll just say “I want to thank all the little people…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/8 "2005-10-17T16:05:17Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > (And then there could be a “bio” section, some favorites quotes, maybe even have a Bacon number …) What would the Bacon number for the SDMB be? I mean, my Bacon number is (…starts counting …) 4, and I’ve never been in a movie. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/9 "2005-10-17T16:20:43Z")
Bacon number? I usually put about 4 slices per sandwich. 3 on a hamburger. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/10 "2005-10-17T16:21:27Z")
> [@](#): > > What would the Bacon number for the SDMB be? I mean, my Bacon number is (…starts counting …) 4, and I’ve never been in a movie. I think you need to explain this one. Isn’t Bacon number exclusively a property of people who’ve been in movies? It’s cheating to use “I have a friend who…” and the like; if one allows things like that, then I have a Bacon number of 1: I live on the same continent as Kevin Bacon. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/11 "2005-10-17T17:00:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I think you need to explain this one. Isn’t Bacon number exclusively a property of people who’ve been in movies? It’s cheating to use “I have a friend who…” and the like; if one allows things like that, then I have a Bacon number of 1: I live on the same continent as Kevin Bacon. I’ve met Kevin Bacon’s father – is that good for anything? ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/12 "2005-10-17T17:17:14Z")
Put it in the “Thanks to” section. The makers of this film would like to thank the following: > [@](#): > > The Mayor and people of New York > IBM > The Freemasons > **The Dopers** > The people of California > … ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/13 "2005-10-17T19:50:05Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Maybe the credit could be in the “real” credits rather than in the “thanks to” list. E.g., “Technical Assistance: The SDMB”. Then maybe the SDMB would qualify for an entry at IMDB. > > (And then there could be a “bio” section, some favorites quotes, maybe even have a Bacon number …) Better yet, you could make up some fictional pseudonym–maybe “Frank Leudon”[sup]1[/sup] and assign him credit. And on an entirely unrelatd and utterly pointless note my personal Bacon number[sup]2[/sup] is now 2, thanks to [this movie](http://imdb.com/title/tt0113735/) (though seeing that it is still “in production” perhaps that doesn’t count.) Stranger [sup]1[/sup]Don’t make me explain it to you. Just sound it out. [sup]2[/sup]That is to say, actual person-to-person connection to Bacon. I’m not a film actor–I don’t even play one on television–so I don’t qualify in that sense. However, one of the people who appear in that film used to change my diapers. Wow, I’m like…one step away from being a Hollywood powerhouse. Admittedly, it’s a step across a chasm that makes the Grand Canyon look like a sidewalk crack, but hey, I’m connected. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/14 "2005-10-17T20:10:32Z")
**Chronos** that’s what I’m trying to point out. Obviously badly. There are probably only a handful of people who qualify to have a Bacon number on the board. Would we take an average of theirs’? Or maybe use the smallest one? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/15 "2005-10-17T20:41:37Z")
> [@Thunder](#): > > You can also thank a moldy slice of pizza for divine inspiration for this mythical film. > > It would have the same amount of relevence. **Thunder** , did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/16 "2005-10-17T21:20:41Z")
“Unca Cecil and the SDMB” seems appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/17 "2005-10-18T21:14:56Z")
I think the point is that the Board itself, as a single entity, would have a Bacon number (if **Johnny LA** puts us in the credits), completely independantly of any Bacon number any individual members of the SDMB may or may not have. Using listings in credits seems a bit more legitimate to me than just any old connection, though I suppose it should be restricted to leaf nodes of the Bacon graph. In other words, when a movie credits, say, the NYPD for assistance, the NYPD thereby gets a Bacon number, but one cannot consider two movies linked by virtue of both having credited the NYPD. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/18 "2005-10-19T00:07:23Z")
> [@Stranger](#): > > … > > Don’t make me explain it to you. Just sound it out. > … OK, I’m getting “Frank Lee-oo-don” which has no significance to me, but then it is getting close to my bedtime. Could you spell it out in little words for me? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/19 "2005-10-19T00:56:24Z")
I’m getting ‘Frank Loo-don’, and a distinct sense that there is nothing _to_ get. **Stranger On A Train** , prove me wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472/20 "2005-10-19T01:20:22Z")
For what it’s worth, I have a legitimate, honest-to-God, movie-credit, verifiable-in-IMDb, Bacon Number of… crap, now I don’t remember. Four, I think. None of this “I once had lunch with a guy who backed over the foot of the guy who used to trim Kevin Bacon’s second cousin’s hedges” stuff for me, nosirreebob. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-film-credit/326472.md?page=2)