[Note: If this looks familiar, it's because it was published yesterday under a different title. Feel free to read it again.] It’s nice to be able to end this generally awful year with some good news. On December 15th, New York’s City Council passed a bill that requires movie theaters to provide daily showings of … Continue reading New York City Mandates Open Captions in Movie Theaters.
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Some Good News, for a Change
It’s nice to be able to end this generally awful year with some good news. On December 15th, New York’s City Council passed a bill that requires movie theaters to provide daily showings of movies with open captions. Goodbye Gooseneck! That means no more struggling with individual cupholder-anchored, gooseneck caption screens, or with captioned glasses … Continue reading Some Good News, for a Change
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The Talkies
For the first time in as long as I can remember, I’ve actually seen – and heard – many of this year’s Oscar-nominated movies. Including the ones in English. What made this possible? The oft-deplored trend to streaming video. When the Oscar nominations came out earlier this week, the news media focused on the showdown … Continue reading The Talkies
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Moviegoer’s Lament
Last week, the Washington Post ran an article about a movement to make open-captioned movie screenings more widely available to the deaf and hard of hearing. Open captions in movies generally run across the bottom of the screen, the same as subtitles you see in a foreign movie. The Post's article, by Michael O'Sullivan, discussed a … Continue reading Moviegoer’s Lament
Katherine Bouton: Smart Hearing 