[Ads-l] word for kind of subtitle?

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A couple of other terms are telop (mainly used in Japanese), intertitle and surtitle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitles#See_also <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtitles#See_also>). 

"Intertitles were text-only clips spliced into films to explain important plot points and fill in the narrative space of silent cinema…. The purpose of intertitles in modern works is usually to indicate the passage of time or change in location…" (https://blog.amara.org/2019/07/11/a-history-of-subtitles/ <https://blog.amara.org/2019/07/11/a-history-of-subtitles/>). Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertitle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertitle>) says they are also known as “title cards”.

The Reverse Dictionary (https://reversedictionary.org/wordsfor/subtitle <https://reversedictionary.org/wordsfor/subtitle>) also has some suggestions.

Although irrelevant to the question at hand, there is also the term “fansub” ("Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling” by Jorge Díaz Cintas and Aline Remael, https://tinyurl.com/tfamvhq <https://tinyurl.com/tfamvhq>), which also has a Wiki article.

Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA


> On 22 Nov 2019, at 05:12, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> "Insert title" sounds adequate, but I still think there's another term out
> there.
> 
> But "insert title" will do for now.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> JL
> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 11:48 PM imwitty <imwitty at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> How about "closed caption"?
>> L.
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>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 5:16 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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>>> I think it was a little catchier than that. "Establishing" may have too
>>> many syllables.
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>>> JL
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>>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 7:31 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com>
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>>>> Establishing Title Card gets some hits.
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>>>> 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_.
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>>>> 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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