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Dave Williams
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From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 02-05-2000 07:17 PM
Its a wasted lawsuit intended to cause problems and win money. There simply are not enough deaf people for every theater to have at least one screen devoted for open caption. Problem is that NO MOVIE is every made with any encoded captioning and the theater operator is responsible to put it together at thier cost. It simply is not feasible to do so. And besides there is not one single provision in the ADA for theaters to do so, why? Because it would take away the rights of others to enjoy a movie in the dark without having to read it.Closed captioning on TV is great for that purpose, because it doesnt infringe on anyones rights at all. I am sure the suit will get thrown out as there is no law they are violating, and the deaf people are not put out if there is no open caption, because they know there is no open caption and do not have to go there if they dont want to. Its thier choice. In case you think i am hard on the deaf crowd, think again. I have family that is deaf and friends that are deaf, but they know how the world works and don't try to change it JUST FOR THEM. Hey i hate chick flicks, but you dont see me suing a theater because they showed one? Or perhaps we should sue theaters because they wont devote at least one auditorium to chick flicks only? Its just ludicrous. ------------------
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Jeffry L. Johnson
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From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 02-26-2005 12:54 PM
Library to show movies for the deaf
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Library to show movies for the deaf
Friday, February 25, 2005
Kaye Spector
Plain Dealer Reporter
A library hopes to take over where for-profit theaters left off by screening closed-captioned, free movies for the deaf.
Starting March 6, the Coventry Village branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library will show closed-captioned, family-oriented movies for deaf patrons and anyone else.
The movies, which will also have sound, will be shown at 2 p.m. the first Sunday of each month. Admission is free, and moviegoers can bring food and covered non-alcoholic drinks. The first movie will be "Shrek 2."
The movies came about after CH-UH library officials met in October with about a half-dozen deaf residents to find out what sort of programming the deaf community wanted.
"The resounding response was we need closed-captioned movies," said Abigail Noland, the Coventry branch manager.
Based on that meeting, the CH-UH library spent $300 on a television, VCR/DVD player, projector and a closed-caption decoder box. A $250 annual fee went toward the rights to show the films.
Very few cities offer movies in public settings with closed captioning for those who are deaf, Noland said.
By law, all new televisions must now be equipped with closed-captioning technology, Noland said. But it's not the same as going to a theater and enjoying movies with others, she said.
In 2002, Cleveland Cinemas President Jon Forman tried screening first-run open-captioned films for the deaf at the chain's Tower City Cinemas. But the screenings ended after about two years because the movies didn't attract enough customers to offset the expense, he said.
"While we had attendance at every film, it was never great, and that was our frustration," Forman said. "Either we didn't reach out enough or the deaf population is not as large as we believed. I wish we could do it."
The library doesn't have to turn a profit from the screenings, Noland said. In addition to meeting the deaf community's need, library officials also hope that moviegoers will come to socialize.
"I'm hoping the community will love it and it will be a big hit," Noland said. "We're going to do it forever if people like it."
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William Hooper
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From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 02-28-2005 02:49 AM
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"The resounding response was we need closed-captioned movies," said Abigail Noland, the Coventry branch manager.
Based on that meeting, the CH-UH library spent $300 on a television, VCR/DVD player, projector and a closed-caption decoder box.
Crumbs, what kind of projector did they get with what was left of the $300 after the cost of the DVD player?
I really believe that most of these management/board decisions to just run cheap video projectors, say they're as good as "the movies", & then blame the community if nobody wants to see the cheap mess is really 100% ego aggrandizing done by the administrators who just want to say, "There, *I* solved the problem!"
Are they research-oriented enough to investigate WHY the Carmike down the street doesn't just run DVD's on a cheap video projector? No, they just think, "I know how to run movies, you buy a video projector! I am a problem-solver, put my paragraph in the paper!"
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is true then more cinemas will be ablt to add subtitles by using the menu on the DVD player.
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