[Ads-l] word for kind of subtitle?

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

According to the "Glossary of film terms" hosted at Durham University.
The term "insert titles" is used when referring to titles (captions)
that announce scenes or identify settings.

https://community.dur.ac.uk/m.p.thompson/filmterms.htm

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titles

Any words that appear on the screen to convey information to the
audience, including credit titles (identifying personnel), main title
(the name of the film), end titles (closing credits), insert titles
(announcing scenes or identifying settings) and subtitles (translation
of foreign-language dialogue). Insert titles and subtitles can also be
referred to as captions.
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Switching topics. When I started to explore JL's question I was
reminded that there is specialized term for audio tracks that describe
scenes for the blind. These audio descriptions are not captions, but
my mind connected the topics.

https://www.loc.gov/nls/about/services/reference-publications/guides/audio-description-resource-guide/

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Descriptive video is a form of audio-visual translation used primarily
by blind and visually impaired consumers of television and film.
Television and movies use descriptive video when they employ a
Secondary Audio Program (SAP), when the images and actions on screen
are described during natural pauses in the dialogue.
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Garson

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 8:16 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think it was a little catchier than that. "Establishing" may have too
> many syllables.
>
>
> JL
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 7:31 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > Establishing Title Card gets some hits.
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> > Subject: word for kind of subtitle?
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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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