For the first half of cinema history, credits were shown on static 'title cards' at the beginning of the movie. The end of the film usually just said 'The End.' The transition to the modern 'scrolling' end credit crawl began in the mid-1950s. While 'Around the World in 80 Days' (1956) is often cited for its innovative, long-form animated end sequence, the science fiction classic 'Forbidden Planet' (1956) was one of the earliest to feature a text-heavy scroll. The shift happened because film crews were becoming larger and unionized, demanding more people be recognized. By the 1970s, as production teams grew into the hundreds, the 'opening credits' became too long for audiences to sit through, and the 'end crawl' became the industry standard we know today.