Does Jules Verne get credited for this film?

I looked in the credits of the film and the only time I saw his name was on the title "Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"


Also does Walt Disney get a producers credit?

The only time I saw his name was at the beginning "Walt Disney Presents" and at the end "A Walt Disney Production" - which could stand for the company and not the man.

So no one both.

In the current profile Verne is credited with an Original Material By credit. So he gets removed, correct?


Just making sure.

Quoting CubbyUps:

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Does Jules Verne get credited for this film?

I looked in the credits of the film and the only time I saw his name was on the title "Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"

The display of "Jules Verne's" would qualify as an OMB credit IMO, just as it would for William Shakespeare on Hamlet.

If he was credited such as "Based on the book by Jules Verne I would do so. But all he is credited in is above the films title.

Much like say for example "Walt Disney's" (Title of film). Well we don't credit him as anything if he isn't listed in the crew credits, perhaps I'm overlooking something but a title of a film is very different than an credit.

In my opinion, the title is not a credit. At least not for Profiler purposes. The title does not tell us how the person contributed to the film. "Walt Disney's Bambi", for example, doesn't mean that Bambi is based on anything that Walt Disney wrote. Therefore we cannot assume anything about a possessory title. We may all know that Jules Verne wrote Leagues, but unless he is specifically credited, we should - IMHO - not include him.

I have to say that I also agree with GSyren and Unicus

I understand the logic of the objection, but the OMB credit is wide open in the credits table. There's nothing in the rules to prevent including Jules Verne as OMB based on the possessory credit he's been given.

This is like the distinction we have to make to know whether someone wrote a song lyric or a screenplay, and also whether they wrote music for a song or a score.

Thing's like John Carpenter could be handled through the voting process.

The current rules chart doesn't guard against all of the what-ifs, but this freedom is what allows us to capture all of the various OMB credits that we run into.

If you want a constent method for dealing with possessory credits then the chart has to be modified to exclude them.

Related question:

In a few Lubitsch movies the writer is credited as "by" only (not "written by"), followed by one or more OMBs. Credit this one as Writer, Screenwriter?