Clarifying the seemingly obvious: Cast and credits

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From the TC 372 Workshop Compendium

Cast and credits appear to be simply relationships between films and people, and perhaps fictitious characters. Is it really that simple?

Actor-ashton.jpg

From: The Tales of Hoffmann, UK, 1951.

This is Frederick (later: Sir Frederick) Ashton acting as a character named Cochenille, taken from a German manifestation of the British production of Hoffmanns Erzählungen, made in 1951.

The first thing to note is that his contribution is, like that of most actors, at the work level.

Ashton-xml2.png

Here is an XML representation of the relationship.

For uniquely identifying the person, we have included an identifier from the British film Institute. At this place, we could add any number of further identifiers.