We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
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The profession of writing titles has all the dignity of a literary career — the audience is vast enough to appeal to the ambitions of any writer. The work calls for inherent as well as acquired culture and it may be recommended as a career to the young men from our universities. Even with their academic training, they will find it difficult to keep pace with the ever-increasing requirements of the craft. Yet they will have the satisfaction of knowing that their vocation is one that takes its place among the constructive works of the world.
The word sub-title is a rather loose term, commonly used to designate all reading matter, except the main or lead title, which appears on the screen. A more correct designation divides the term into two sub-headings : Captions, meaning all explanatory reading matter, and Spoken Titles, meaning all words put into the mouths of the characters and indicated by quotation marks.
When, where and why are sub-titles necessary or desirable? Some of the reasons for their use are :
i. To explain the purpose or indicate the main theme of the picture.
2. To give the picture coherency. They are links which join the scenes and help to carry the thread of the story.
3. To name and characterize the principle roles portrayed ; to identify setting or location, and sometimes to fix the time of the story or any of its parts.
4. To illuminate and interpret the picture or any of its situations by conveying ideas which the action does not or cannot register.
5. To inject comedy, pathos, or other sentiments which may be entirely arbitrary, into the picture.
6. To indicate lapses of time, or cover jumps in the continuity
7. To economize footage or save production costs by substituting for scenes not shown.
Some of these uses, may appear to be similar and some of them may overlap. One sub-title may serve two or more of these purposes. On the other hand, a sub-title may be required for only one of these definite reasons.
There are as many ways of wording or phrasing a given subtitle of moderate length as there are individuals who may write it. Perhaps each one would consider his style and wording the best. It is certain that no two would write it exactly the same.
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