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[fatbag.livejournal.com]

А почему в финальных титрах американских (и не только) фильмов год создания пишут римскими цифрами? Это чисто для "понтов", или есть в этом еще какой-то глубинный смысл?

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[rotbart.livejournal.com]

Просто традиция такая, со времен зарождения синематографа.

[e-rubik.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

The film industry has used them perhaps since its inception to denote the year a film was made, so that it could be redistributed later either locally or to a foreign country with many not knowing the wiser; this became more useful when films were broadcast on television to prevent people from reacting against an older film. From this came the policy of the broadcasting industry, including the BBC, to use them to denote the year in which a television program was made (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has largely stopped this practice but still occasionally lapses).