[Ads-l] word for kind of subtitle?

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Nov 22 13:10:22 UTC 2019


Nope. The site defines "Title In" as "A direction in the script to lay
words on the screen."

I'm thinking of a term for the actual words on the screen.


JL

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:34 PM Tyler M. <tmac27 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The website TV Tropes calls it "Title In":
> https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TitleIn
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 7:00 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Not long ago I came across a special term for the sort of movie/TV
> subtitle
> > that labels the time and place of a new scene or identifies a new
> > character.
> >
> > They were used extensively in The X-Files, but are common elsewhere. The
> > earliest exx. I've noticed, IIRC, were in the 1958 version of _Dunkirk_,
> > and they were used a lot in _The Longest Day_.
> >
> > Now that I need to know the term of course, I can't remember it, and I
> > can't find it on the Net.
> >
> > Anybody know what it could be?
> >
> > (No, it's not "informative subtitle.")
> >
> > JL
> >
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