‘Around the world in eighty days’ is a film without any opening titles. Everything typographic is saved for the ending credits, exit music, entr’acte and intermission.
Other movies with entr’actes, intermissions and/or exit music are Gone with the wind (1939), Duel in the sun (1946), High society (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), West side story (1961) and Doctor Zhivago (1965).

Intermission title

Entr’acte title

The title of the film appears during the closing credits

Exit music title
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Title from the 1956 theatrical trailer

Title from the 1983 re-release trailer


The “Entr’acte” and “Exit Music” title cards were never shown in the theatrical versions because they didn’t exist. These were made for the home cinema versions only. DVDs of other movies sometimes show “Overture” title cards (e.g. the ones you mentioned above or “Spartacus”, “East of Eden” etc.). In the cinema these movies played the overture music over the closed curtains. No such title cards as well.
As someone says in the audio commentary of the “Spartacus” dvd (I think it was this one.) these title cards were included for the home cinema users so that they don’t think that something is wrong with their home cinema equipment.
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