How to display custom post titles?

I created a custom post type called Slides that are child posts to normal posts. Each post becomes a single slide in a slideshow to its parent.

I am having trouble displaying the slides’ titles within the parent post.

I’m able to get each slide’s custom fields’ values, I just can’t get the titles. Here’s the code I’m using and thought would work:

<?php if (get_post_meta($slide->ID, 'wpcf-image', true)) {
  	$thetitle = get_post_meta($slide->ID, 'title', true);
        $image = get_post_meta($slide->ID, 'wpcf-image', true);
        $caption = get_post_meta($slide->ID, 'wpcf-caption', true);
        $credit = get_post_meta($slide->ID, 'wpcf-credit', true);
        ?>

All of the variables work except $thetitle.

Thank you in advance for any help!

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