A milestone in movies for the blind
From: LA Times - 04/14/2010
By: Amy Kaufman

Helen Harris channeled her determination into developing TheatreVision, a
program that allows the visually challenged to go to the movies and more
fully understand the films. The process involves creating a special
soundtrack that narrates moments of action and silent interactions to run in
tandem with the film's dialogue. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/movies/articles/2010/04/19/20100419blindmovies0419.html

Link:
TheatreVision
http://theatrevision.org/

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Aiding the blind
By: Mary Watkins, Boston, director of communications and outreach for the
WGBH Media Access Group

The article on description of movies in theaters for people who are blind ["A
Milestone in Movies for the Blind", by Amy Kaufman, April 14] omitted any
mention that the movie description service is available now every day, in
theaters all over North America and is supported by large and small studios
and movie exhibitors. 

WGBH, Boston's public media outlet, developed video description for
television in 1990, and for movies in first-run theaters in 1997. Today,
WGBH's Media Access Group describes more than 70 films a year (and closed
captions more than 100) in time for their debut in the more than 500 theaters
equipped with our DVS Theatrical and Rear Window Captioning systems,
collectively known as MoPix. 

A simple web search for "described movies" will reveal lots of information
about availability of described movies in theaters. There are 10 theaters in
the LA area alone screening descibed films every day. 

Links:
MoPix
http://ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/

WGBH Media Access Group
http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/

Submitted by Maurice LaBlanc