{"id":"silent-intertitle","no":176,"name":"Silent Film Intertitle","ja":"サイレント映画の字幕カード","era":"1900s–1920s","family":"映画技術","kind":"技法","collection":"Dictionary expansion 10","addedAt":"2026-08-18","source":{"title":"SF Silent Film Festival — Silent Cinema and the Intertitle","url":"http://sfsilentfilmfestival.blogspot.com/2017/05/corrupted-texts-intertitles.html"},"reference":{"status":"verified","pageUrl":"http://sfsilentfilmfestival.blogspot.com/2017/05/corrupted-texts-intertitles.html","credit":"SF Silent Film Festival — Silent Cinema and the Intertitle","gallery":[{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The%20Kid%20-%20Charity.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The%20Kid%20-%20Charity.jpg","credit":"チャップリン『キッド』の字幕カード 1921 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The%20Kid%20-%20Shopping.jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The%20Kid%20-%20Shopping.jpg","credit":"『キッド』の字幕カード 1921 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"},{"imageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Title%20card%20of%20The%20Nihilist%20(1905%20film).jpg?width=640","pageUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Title%20card%20of%20The%20Nihilist%20(1905%20film).jpg","credit":"『The Nihilist』タイトルカード 1905 — Wikimedia Commons / Public domain"}]},"essence":"台詞と説明を独立した文字カードとして本編に差し込む形式で、映画とタイポグラフィが最初に出会った場所になった。","cues":["黒地の文字カード","装飾枠","手描きレタリング","本編と交互のリズム"],"intents":["懐かしさ","親密"],"works":["音のない環境で見られる短編に、台詞と説明を独立した札で入れるとき","無声期の雰囲気を借りた広告や、章立てを見せる映像の区切り"],"recipe":{"type":"台詞と説明で書体を変え、一枚に収まる語数まで文を削る","layout":"文字を中央に置き、枠飾りとの間に均等な余白を四方に残す","material":"黒地に白抜き、フィルムの傷と揺れを画面全体に薄く乗せる"},"avoid":"説明を書きすぎて札が長くなると、映像の流れが毎回止まり、読む物になって見る物でなくなる。","colors":["#efece5","#4b4b4a","#070707"],"motif":"archive","pair":["german-expressionism-film","saul-bass-title"],"study":["字幕カードのレタリング職人","各国語版の差し替え","音声導入による消滅"],"en":{"essence":"Dialogue and description were cut into the film as separate cards of type. This is where cinema and typography first met.","cues":["Text cards on black","Ornamental frames","Hand lettering","Alternating rhythm with the action"],"works":["Short films watched without sound that need dialogue on separate cards","Chapter breaks and advertising borrowing the manner of the silent era"],"recipe":{"type":"Different faces for speech and narration, trimmed to fit one card","layout":"Center the text and keep even space on all four sides","material":"White out of black, with a faint film weave and gate flicker"},"avoid":"Cards that explain too much stop the flow every time they appear, and the film turns into something to be read rather than watched.","study":["The intertitle lettering artists","language-version replacements","the disappearance with sound"]},"links":{"page":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/silent-intertitle","json":"https://indexstyle.org/api/styles/silent-intertitle","designSpec":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/silent-intertitle/design.md","imagePrompt":"https://indexstyle.org/styles/silent-intertitle/prompt.txt"},"usage":{"license":"CC-BY-4.0","licenseName":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org","attributionUrl":"https://indexstyle.org","scope":"Original IndexStyle text and structured data. Reference images, quoted works, and third-party material are excluded and retain their own rights."}}