title card

[tahyt-l kahrd]

noun

1. intertitle.

2. a card with the title of a book or the name of another object in a library collection, traditionally organized in alphabetical order in the library’s card catalog.

   Each record should have a main title card.

Word History and Origins

Origin of title card¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Just listen, he says, to the way Tiomkin’s music transitions from the westerny fanfare under the Winchester Pictures logo to the swirling, menacing orchestral storm that accompanies “The Thing From Another World” title card in that 1951 sci-fi picture that Carpenter remixed as “The Thing.”

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Before the close, “SNL” memorialized Diane Keaton, whose death was announced Saturday, in a title card.

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Yes, bad things are happening in 1977 in the city of Recife: political disappearances, murder in the streets, a thorough sense of “mischief,” as one early title card calls it.

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Before the closing goodnights, a title card appeared for Val Kilmer, who hosted “SNL” in 2000 and who died this week.

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Trương doesn’t offer his film’s title card until halfway into its running time.

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