Cinema to make significant progress in 2012
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There will be 27 new locations across NSW, Queensland and Victoria, bringing both closed captions and audio description to a total of 50 screens.
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Audio description introduced in four Melbourne cinemas
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The Village complexes of Knox, Crown, Southland and Jam Factory have all in recent weeks installed the Doremi Fidelio audio description system to complement the Doremi CaptiView system for captioning. Accessible movies with both components are now shown on a number of screens at each location, depending on the number of screens in the entire complex.
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Morocco’s film festival supports audio described movies
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With support from the FIFM Foundation, audio description of movies for Moroccan audiences will continue through the year with a further six movies slated for the service. With the addition of audio description, which adds a secondary soundtrack of narration of a movie’s visual elements, blind and vision impaired film fans can feel part of the full cinema experience.
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American cinema formalises commitment to accessible movies
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The formal announcement follows on from a July 2010 ruling by the King County Superior Court in the state of Washington that AMC can afford to provide the necessary equipment to show all caption-rendered movies with captions. AMC was ordered to do so within 90 days of conversion to digital projection. AMC initially appealed the order then made the verbal commitment to full captioning in August last year.
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