[il-talk] FW: Help to legislate audio description and captioning in all U.S. cinemas

[Sean Ziadeh]

Does the film industry have a position on these bills?
 
In-roads to it could help movement on the legislation.
 
Sean Ziadeh, Chicago 
 
> From: eric at pmpmail.com
> To: il-talk at nfbnet.org
> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 09:10:39 -0500
> Subject: [il-talk] FW: Help to legislate audio description and captioning in	all U.S. cinemas
> 
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> 
> Original Message: 
> From: Robert William Kingett <kingettr at gmail.com>
> To: eric at pmpmail.com
> Subject: Help to legislate audio description and captioning in all U.S.
> cinemas
> Date: 
> Sat, 20 Jul 2013 22:42:23 -0500
> 
> My name is Robert Kingett. like millions of Americans with vision or 
> hearing impairments I love going to the movies. However, finding a 
> cinema that offers movies with captioning or video description is not 
> easy and many of my friends with vision impairments have simply stopped 
> going to see a movie in a movie theater. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) 
> recently introduced two bills that will expand access to captioning and 
> image narration in movie theaters and allow people with visual or 
> hearing impairments to enjoy the movies we all love to watch. The 
> Captioning and Image Narration to Enhance Movie Accessibility (CINEMA) 
> Act would require movie theater complexes of two or more screens to make 
> captioning and video description available for ALL films at ALL 
> showings. With the help of this petition we can help push through 
> legislation that will force the studios and cinema operators to provide 
> the necessary technology so that everyone can enjoy the cinema experience.
> 
> The link is
> 
> http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Help_to_legislate_audio_description_and_cap
> tioning_in_all_US_cinemas_for_movie_fans_with_visual_or_hearing_impairments_
> 1/?cTSTleb 
> 
> 
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