And we should also call all films photoplays

Does anyone know who coined the term, "intertitle?" The earliest I can find it in print is circa 1980-81. I'm sure it's an abbreviation of "interstitial title." Claire Dupré la Tour claims that the term intertitle came into use in the early 1930s “to differentiate the practice from the then new pro...

If one has any interest in preserving the terminology commonly used by the industry during the silent era, then the terms "subtitles" or "titles" are the terms to be used. Quite an oversimplification, I would say... In the US, for example, textual inserts in the silent era were often referred to, a...

Feel free to check out my dissertation as well:
Galina Savukova. “Reading Films: Words on the Silent Screens of American Cinema” (2010).
Available on Proquest: http://gradworks.umi.com/34/26/3426857.html" target="_blank" target="_blank

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