Making a silent film

I'm making a silent film in iMovie HD and I need to create a "title template" that has an antique border where I can type in the dialogue of the characters. In many of the old silent films, they would cut from the characters speaking to a black "title screen" that had the dialogue so you could follow the conversation, and that is what I'm trying to replicate. Is there any way I could just use a black background and add-in the antique border and words? Any help is greatly appreciated.
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Pin,
Sounds like a fun project. Here's one way you might go about it.
Shoot your title cards live, much as they did in the old days.
If you have a video camera or still camera and tripod, just create the cards using a word processor. If you have Word, Microsoft offers a ton of online line clip art. I'm sure you can find an appropriate border.
Then tape the cards to a wall and shoot them.
Don't worry that the text is black and background is white. You can fix that with X-Ray, a free plugin from GeeThree.
http://www.geethree.com/slick/free.html
If you make your whole movie black and white and apply the Aged Film effect I think you'll get the vintage look you're going for,
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