subtitles

subtitles
  refers to the printed line(s) of text superimposed and displayed at the bottom of the screen frame, often used to translate a foreign-language phrase, or to describe a time/place; also the text translating an entire foreign language film (that hasn't been dubbed); often termed caption
  Example: Subtitle in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).

Glossary of cinematic terms . 2015.

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