[Ads-l] word for kind of subtitle?

[Jonathan Lighter]

"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:

> 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_.
> > >
> > > 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.")
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> > > JL
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