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unusual facts about title card



Mel Shaw

Shaw began his career in entertainment industry as a silent film title card creator at Pacific Title and Art, a company owned by film producer, Leon Schlesinger.


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Daffy Dilly

Daffy Dilly is a 1948 (reissued in 1956 without original title card) Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Daffy Duck.

Development of Bugs Bunny

Elmer's Pet Rabbit, originally intended and meant to be the final experimental cartoon, bore a title card shoehorned in between the opening credits and the start of the story reading, "Starring Bugs Bunny" (the first on-screen use of that name), but nevertheless featured the same initial off-model versions of Elmer and the hare seen in ...Camera.

A title card saying "featuring Bugs Bunny" was slapped onto Elmer's Pet Rabbit after initial production of that cartoon wrapped up, though that cartoon had the rabbit carry the pre-Wild Hare characteristics.

Lisa Goes Gaga

At the end of the episode, a title card promotes the Maggie-starring short film The Longest Daycare, which showed before the animated film Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012).

Lynn Bayonas

The Australian soap opera Neighbours, of which Bayonas's sister Susan Bower is an executive producer, marked Bayonas's death at the end of their episode broadcast on 25 January 2010 with a title card as the credits rolled.

Patient Porky

A title card at the beginning claims that the cartoon is adapted from a book called The Pains Came, but this is merely a joke, a pun off the novel and film The Rains Came.

Pavithrampudur

This temple figures in the opening of the title card of the Tamil film Bama Vijayam.