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Definition of titles

the words that appear on the film screen and convey information; categories of titles include: credit titles, main titles, end titles, insert titles, and subtitles; a creeper title, also known as a roll-up title, refers to a film title that appears to move solwly across the screen - vertically or horizontally; in silent film, "titles" (called title cards or intertitles) included the written commentary and full screens of textual dialogue spliced within the action; title design refers to the artistic manner in which the title of a film is displayed on screen; theworking title is the name by which a film is known while it is being made (e.g., during the filming of Psycho (1960), it was known as Production 9401); see Movie Title Screens; see also credits

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