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Original title
I'm interested how can I use the "original title" feature like in these examples:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15778160/ ("Fixative" ; Original title: Fiksazh)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14135872/ ("My Uncle Tudor" ; Original title: Nanu Tudor)
When I add a new title to IMDb - I use transliteration title (according to guide) and add alternate titles on other languages, but they just listed in "Also Known As" on bottom of movie page.
Of course I would prefer to show english title as default and transliterated original title as "original title" like it shown in the examples above.
(and yes, I know about "Title display language preferences" but it's different thing)
So my question:
How can I use the "original title" feature?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong with "alternate titles" feature?
Please help me figure it out.
Thanks.
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Giancarlo_Cairella
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The original title is the primary title associated with a film or other work, defined as "the original title of a movie/show in its original language as it appears on screen (on the title card) in the opening credits."
https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB
Any other variation/translation/version of the title needs to be added as an alternate title.
When a title is displayed under an alternate title (e.g. a foreign film with an English-language title), the original title will appear underneath the alternate.
To have the English-language title of a film appear as default to US or UK users, the alternate title must be added with an attribute of "IMDb Display Title" and the corresponding country attribute. For example this Italian film has "Life Is Beautiful" as an alternate title attribute of "IMDb Display Title" for the country "USA".
So Italian visitors to the page will see the original title:
and US-based users will see this when they look at the same page:
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