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Time-coded, Hardcoded, Decoded: Excavating Variants and Practices in Swiss Film Subtitling Cover

Time-coded, Hardcoded, Decoded: Excavating Variants and Practices in Swiss Film Subtitling

Open Access
|Aug 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Venn diagram showing the overlap between Swiss films in the FIWI collection and those digitised by Filmo (2019–2025), with 167 titles held in both collections.

Figure 2

Bar chart illustrating the distribution of film releases, showing a linear trend over the period 1920–2019.

Figure 3

Side-by-side comparison of two screenshots from the same scene in Landesverräter, with the hardcoded DVD subtitles on the left and the Play Suisse SRT subtitles on the right.

Figure 4

Side-by-side comparison of the optical character recognition results produced with Tesseract (left) and Abbyy FineReader (right).

Figure 5

VIAN’s interface while analysing the DVD version of Landesverräter.

Figure 6

Excerpt from a collation result generated in LERA, showing the DVD hardcoded subtitles on the left and the Play Suisse SRT subtitles on the right.

Figure 7

Excerpt from a table containing processed data of the Play Suisse subtitles.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18146/tmg.939 | Journal eISSN: 2213-7653
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 29
Published on: Aug 13, 2026
Published by: Sound & Vision
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2026 Josephine Diecke, Ariadne Baresch, Sevita Caseres, Alexander Künzli, published by Sound & Vision
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