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Intertitle

By Jennifer Merin, About.com

Definition: Text that appears periodically on screen to provide information such as the date, the time, the location or to identify a person shown on screen.
Examples: Director Amy Berg uses an intertitle to identify Cardinal Roger Mahoney is the man shown on screen in Deliver Us From Evil.

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