With more than 100 years of experience, captioning has a huge history. The closed caption created by millions of milestones was brought about by people who failed to hear the voices. In this post, we will discuss the top 5 greatest moments experienced by reliable closed captioning services and create a wonderful history. So, let’s get started:

Silent move period and “intertitles”

During the 19th century, we got to see the first element of the silent film. In the starting, the interpreters take place to perform and express loud in the action in the silent film to entertain the audience when needed. But during that time some films started getting very long, then in 1920, the rise of 'intertitles' was in the form of a text frame.

Emerson Romero creates the first captions for the movie  

The name of Emerson Romero as a deaf actor is big in the history of closed caption. 

Romero was acted with Charlie Chaplin much time in fact, Romero was a film actor and Charlie Chaplin was an impersonator in the 1920s. Because they were both deaf, they were known each other well. 

Romero is most credited for the 1947 Hollywood film. Unfortunately, his strategy was failed and didn’t collect high accessibility and the film production team wasn’t taken his effort seriously at the time. 

But a few days later a film was made in Belgium, in which a new history of captioning was created, in which the caption was etched on the last print of the film.

The Television Uprising 

The first National Conference of Television was held in 1921 for deaf people. There, Captioning was first demonstrated to an audience. These programs were broadcast with captions displayed on the video.  It is also known as open captions.