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3 unusual facts about caption


Caption

Intertitle, a piece text edited into a film to convey information like dialogue

Photo caption, explanatory text about specific published photos

Closed captioning, used to provide the text of a show's audio portion to those who may have trouble hearing it


2006 Lebanon War photographs controversies

Another one was published in the 31 July issue of Time, with a caption saying the fire came from the "wreckage of a downed Israeli jet." Michelle Malkin and anonymous blogger Allahpundit stated that the fire in the background appeared to be a large pile of burning tires.

Acinic cell carcinoma

Caption = Micrograph of an acinic cell carcinoma (right of image) and acinar glands (parotid gland - left of image).

Ambrose Reynolds

The name is a matter of contention; Johnson wanted to call the band Hollycost, Reynolds disagreed, Johnson responded "we could call it anything"; his eyes then drifted to a poster on the wall of Frank Sinatra (from a book called Rock Dreams) as he read out the caption, saying disparagingly, "we could even call it Frankie goes to Hollywood, it doesn't matter", at which point Reynolds said, "yes, that's what we SHOULD call it, it's original and different".

Ambush Bug

He also was referenced in Superman/Batman Annual #1 in a throwaway caption near the end: "Darkseid played chess with Ambush Bug. Ambush Bug accidentally destroyed the universe with the 'Ultimate Clapper.'"

Anterior spinal artery

Caption = Micrograph showing an axial section of the anterior spinal cord and anterior spinal artery (top-middle of image).

Bad Boyz

Directed by Marc Klasfeld, the video starts off with the caption: Rae Town, Jamaica 9:37 am, with Shyne exiting Norman Manley International Airport and heading to town.

Bell Gothic

The typeface was used as a display and caption face by Metropolis magazine, by Canadian graphic designer Bruce Mau in designing the initial ZONE book series, Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom, and has been widely used by Semiotext(e) Books, the MIT Press, and Dia Art Foundation.

Block-Heads

Stock scenes of fighting are then seen followed by the caption 'Armistice'.

Brand blunder

An April 2002 Starbucks ad featured twin cups of their Tazo drinks with the caption "Collapse into cool" and an airborne dragonfly, imagery and wording which reminded many of the recent 9/11 attacks.

A Nike ad on Oscar Pistorius' website used the caption "I am the bullet in the chamber" and was pulled in 2013 after his arrest in connection with the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.

CleanFlicks

Robert Huntsman, an attorney and inventor affiliated with Cleanflicks who had a DVD-editing patent pending, was named as the lead plaintiff, so the original short caption for the case was Huntsman v. Soderbergh.

Cliffhanger

Another notable example of this case was the Sledge Hammer! season 1 episode "The Spa Who Loved Me", which ended with the city destroyed by a nuclear explosion followed by this caption: "To Be Continued...Next Season?"

Coldwave

The term Cold wave was first used in the 26 November 1977 issue of UK weekly music paper, Sounds: the caption of its picture-cover, showing Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider was "New musick: The cold wave".

Cuboideonavicular articulation

Caption = Ligaments of the sole of the foot, with the tendons of the fibularis longus, tibialis posterior and tibialis anterior muscles.

Debridement

Caption = Necrotic tissue from the left leg is being surgically debrided in a patient with necrotizing fasciitis.

Failure

"Fail" is the name of a popular Internet meme where users superimpose a caption, often the word "fail" or "epic fail", onto photos or short videos depicting unsuccessful events or people falling short of expectations.

Harry Bliss

The May 12, 2008 edition of The New Yorker magazine published in its weekly caption-writing contest a cartoon by that closely resembled Jack Kirby's cover of Tales to Astonish #34 (Aug. 1962).

Herman Bailey

Bailey created an illustration featuring an Israeli firing squad shooting a group of Arabs with a caption reading: "This is the Gaza Strip, Palestine, not Dachau, Germany".

Horace Greasley

Guy Walters asserted categorically that the soldier in the picture was not Greasley, stating that the picture is held by the US National Archives and the caption details show it was taken in Minsk (in Belarus) in mid-1941, that it was taken by a photographer for a propaganda film and identifies the soldier as Soviet from his cap, and that the officers in the picture are the same officers who appear in the film with Himmler.

Jayram Karthik

He is one of the greatest player of Karnataka Bulldozers in Celebrity Cricket League and also vice caption of Karnataka Bulldozers

Juvenile xanthogranuloma

Caption = Micrograph of a juvenile xanthogranuloma with the distinctive Touton giant cells.

Kenneth Weaver

"Legends" were, in fact, the captions that accompanied the innovative, often exotic photography that the Geographic pioneered at that time, and still do to this day.

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix

In January 2013, Jesse McCartney, the voice of Roxas, posted a picture on Instagram showing Roxas clearly displayed on a screen in a recording booth, along with the caption, "For all you ‘Kingdom Hearts‘ Fans. Recording the next chapter, #KingdomHearts #Roxas #Gamers."

Magnetic resonance angiography

Caption = Time-of-flight MRA at the level of the Circle of Willis.

Matthew Wright

Wright introduced a debate on Knox's future with an on-screen caption headed "Foxy Knoxy: Would Ya?" and told viewers: "She's entirely innocent. She's also undeniably fit and loves wild sex. Or did. So if you were a guy who'd met her in a bar and she invited you back to hers, would you go?"

Mount Charleston

The state of Nevada issues license plates with the caption "Mt. Charleston" and an image of the peak in the background.

National Captioning Institute

Created in 1979 and headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, the organization was the first to caption live TV and home video, and holds the trademark on the display icon featuring a simple geometric rendering of a television set merged with a speech balloon to indicate that a program is NCI-captioned.

Newton Road railway station

caption = from The Book of the Grand Junction Railway, Thomas Roscoe

Optic canal

Caption = 1: Foramen ethmoidale
2: Canalis opticus
3: Fissura orbitalis superior
4: Fossa sacci lacrimalis
5: Sulcus infraorbitalis
6: Fissura orbitalis inferior
7: Foramen infraorbitale

Richmond Public Schools

The lawsuit, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, later became one of the five cases decided under the caption Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1954.

Rissoina sagraiana

The species was first published by D’Orbigny (1842) under the name Rissoina sagra in the caption of the plate and thereby made available under the provisions of article 12.2.7 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature; the complete description was published years later (1846) under the name Rissoina sagraiana and the publication in parts was completed only in 1853.

Samsung Galaxy S

The Brazilian "GT-I9000B" includes an ISDB-T 1seg digital television tuner with program guide, closed caption and recording support.

Susanna Drury

It was included in the geology section along with two other plates depicting similar basalt formations in France, and included a caption by Nicolas Desmarest proposing, for the first time in print, that the structures were volcanic in origin.

Sweety Nanna Jodi

The title and caption have been taken from the popular track, 'Sweety nanna jodi...' from the film, Bharjari Bete.

Terry Bivins

caption = Dick Trickle

The Areas of My Expertise

Before that time, writes Hodgman, an entirely different animal - particularly "a kind of sea otter" - was known in Maine as the "lobster" (the photo of a European otter at right is included with the caption "Figure 11: The Lobster").

The History Man

At the end there is a caption stating that in the 1979 General Election Howard Kirk voted Conservative.

The Movie from the Future

caption = The Movie From the Future poster designed by Sean Hall|

Transverse cervical artery

Caption = Superficial dissection of the right side of the neck, showing the carotid and subclavian arteries (transverse cervical artery is labeled, branching from the thyrocervical trunk

Washington D.C. Temple

In late 1973, an unknown person painted "Surrender Dorothy" on the girders of a railroad bridge that crosses the Beltway; to drivers approaching the temple from the east, the words appeared like a caption under the building.

Werner Goldberg

Shortly after the beginning of the War, Werner's photograph appeared in the Sunday edition of the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper with the caption "The Ideal German Soldier"; the photograph had been sold to the newspaper by the official army photographer.

Young–Madders syndrome

Caption = Gross pathology


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