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Performing arts term

Billing is a performing arts term used in referring to the order and other aspects of how credits are presented for plays, films, television, or other creative works.

Information given in billing usually consists of the companies, actors, directors, producers, and other crew members.

Films

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History

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From the beginning of motion pictures in the 1900s to the early 1920s, the moguls that owned or managed big film studios did not want to bill the actors appearing in their films because they did not want to recreate the star system that was prevalent on Broadway at that time.^{[citation needed]} They also feared that, once actors were billed on film, they would be more popular and would seek large salaries.

Actors themselves did not want to reveal their film careers to their stage counterparts via billing on film, because at that time working in the movies was unacceptable to stage actors.^{[citation needed]} As late as the 1910s, stars as famous as Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin were not know

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