Answer by joseph_morris for What does the use of a double em dash signifiy?
This is really only a partial answer; but I can say empirically say, from a Google image search for "intertitle" (the word for these word-signs-in-silent movies), that this was a common convention in...
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When watching The Man who Laughs (1928), at 40:14 the line, also pictured below, "Hey —— we saw her first!" appears.What does the use of a double em-dash signify here?
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