# Silent Film Intertitle: motion graphics style

> A 1920s silent-movie intertitle: white serif words on a black card with an Art Nouveau border, on flickering, scratched film. It irises in and out; use it for vintage reveals, retro trailers and storytelling chapter cards.

- Category: [Film Titles & Animation](https://aimotions.art/category/film-titles-animation/)
- Also known as: silent movie title card, intertitle, 1920s film card, silent movie effect, vintage film title, art nouveau title card, film grain flicker
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Calm · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/silent-film-intertitle/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/silent-film-intertitle/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Create a silent-film intertitle for the word [TEXT]. Black card, cream-white type: a short letter-spaced narration line in small capitals above, [TEXT] large in a high-contrast display serif in the center, a gentle italic line below, a little flourish under the word. Frame it with a thin double border with cut corners and Art Nouveau whiplash curls, lily buds and a fan ornament on top. Treat it as projected 1920s film at 18 frames per second: subtle gate weave, gentle exposure flicker, coarse animated grain, thin white vertical scratches and dust specks that appear for a few frames, and a dark oval vignette. Open with a circular iris widening from black, hold, then iris closed and loop.
```

## Visual DNA

- Cream-white high-contrast serif on a black card, Art Nouveau whiplash border
- Projected at 18 fps: gate weave, gentle exposure flicker and coarse grain
- White emulsion scratches, dust specks and hairs that come and go
- Circular iris opening and closing the shot
- Heavy oval vignette with darkened corners

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Silent Film Intertitle, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/silent-film-intertitle/