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Labels in brackets tell a deaf viewer about music, laughter or a door slamming. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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SDH captions also describe the sounds

Labels in brackets tell a deaf viewer about music, laughter or a door slamming Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing add speaker names and sound effects to the dialogue, and mark music with notes or a description. The extra text shares the same safe area, so it must be placed without covering faces. Broadcasters and streaming services increasingly offer it as a separate track. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Labels in brackets tell a deaf viewer about music, laughter or a door slamming. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.