[Ads-l] word for kind of subtitle?

[imwitty]

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> wrote:
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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.
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> > 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.
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> > Anybody know what it could be?
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> > (No, it's not "informative subtitle.")
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> > JL
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