Title card

Modern use

The development of the soundtrack slowly eliminated their utility as a narrative device (they were common for providing narration, but not dialogue, well into the 1930s), but they are occasionally still used as an artistic device. For instance, intertitles were used as a gimmick in Frasier. The BBC's drama Threads uses them to give location, date and information on distant events beyond Sheffield. Law & Order and its related spinoffs used them to give not only the location, but also the date of the upcoming scene. Guy Maddin is a modern filmmaker known for recreating the style of older films, and uses intertitles appropriately. Some locally produced shows, such as quiz bowlgame shows, use animated variations of intertitles to introduce the next round. In the show Invincible the title card is used for comedic effect, such as interrupting a character with the title card whenever they say the titular protagonist's name, often exploited for comedic purposes such as one instance where a character is interrupted multiple times.