The history of cinema captioning, as told by a pioneer

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Monday, 18 March 2013 16:34pm

American captioning advocate and blogger Shanna Groves has posted the second interview in her series on movie accessibility for people who are Deaf or hearing impaired. In this instalment, captioning pioneer Larry Goldberg from WGBH in Boston provides a number of insights into the development of WGBH’s Rear Window Captioning system as well as the arrival on the market of competitors.

In Groves' interview with Goldberg he talks about how a range of options to watch captioned movies is a good thing, in reference to other cinema access technologies such as Sony’s Entertainment Access Glasses and CaptiView. He also hints at changes to Rear Window Captioning licensing fees which potentially could widen market opportunities for WGBH.

This follows on from the first in the series with US attorney John Waldo, looking at the differences and preferences between open and closed cinema captions. Groves plans to continue the series with interviews with founders of UK accessible cinema website Your Local Cinema, the Collaboration for Communication Access via Captioning (CCAC) group and accessible movie search engine, Captionfish.


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