Accessible cinema

Welcome to a set of resources on the topic of accessible cinemas – making first-run movies accessible to deaf/hard-of-hearing and blind/visually-impaired moviegoers. These resources are all about captioned movies and audio-described movies.

Movie reviews

Joe Does the Movies. I went to every single movie with captioning and/or description for two years (nearly 70). I reviewed the movies and the access features.

Privacy complaint

I filed a privacy complaint against Famous Players in 2004, and it was resolved in 2005: I prevailed on all but one count. Read all about it.

News

• Refusal to support the Caption Movies Now Coalition: We may have similar goals, but I do not support the organization (2007.03.13)
• Austin Powers in Goldmember: First-ever U.S. movie with Canadian-sponsored captioning and description. Read the press release (2002.07.23).
  • See also: “Hearing, sight impaired get help from distributor”
• Well, the kudos are pouring in! Have a look at the gigantic full-page profile of me and movie access in the Toronto Star (2002.06.15; alternate link).

Resources

• Cinema reviews: Joe Does the Movies
• Behind the booth: I go behind the projection booth at a MoPix-equipped cinema. You Are There!
• How to make movies accessible: Basic facts (2002.03.30)
• Accessible cinema rollouts: What you didn’t know you didn’t know about introducing an accessible cinema
  • See also – The first launch: what happened at Famous Players’ launch of the first MoPix captioning/description systems in Canada, November 2001

Links

• My own articles on motion-picture access:
  1. Reading the silver screen
  2. Adding words to the screen
• Blind movie critics:
  1. Blindside Reviews (Jay Forry)
  2. Blindspots: Movie Reviews for Visually Impaired People (Marty Klein)

See also

• DVDs with audio description
• Movie reviews (inaccessible, as it were)