[Ads-l] word for kind of subtitle?
Peter Reitan
pjreitan at HOTMAIL.COM
Fri Nov 22 00:31:56 UTC 2019
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_.
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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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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