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| Updates on Captioning Services |
| The Museum of Science has captioned IMAX shows and Planetarium shows. Rear Window Captioning has also been installed at the Jordan's Furniture IMAX theater in Reading. Read more about captioning information at theaters near you by visiting
MoPix
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| TOP 10 THINGS TO KNOW about captioning at the movies |
- Rear Window Captioning is for everyone, kids and adults, who read and need captioning to help understand the dialogue in movies. If you know anyone who avoids going to movies with family and friends, because they have a hard time understanding the words, then help them find out about RWC offered in their area. Others with vision impaiment will be interested in the audio Descriptive Video Service (DVS).
- After you purchase tickets for a RWC movie, go to the customer service counter to request the RWC viewer screen which you position in your cup holder.
- The sock which covers the viewer screen, to keep it from getting scratched, is handy to make the viewer base fit in the cup holder more tightly if needed.
- If you have not used RWC, each theater experience is a little different, due to slope of seating and distance from the rear projection boards.
- You can sit anywhere in the theater to see the show and you will discover what seating area works best for you. I recommend trying the middle first.
- If your first experience with RWC is a little frustrating, just keep at it. With practice, it gets easier to adjust your viewer screen.
- The captioning is only visible to the person using the portable viewer screen. No one around you sees the captioning, unless they are using a viewer too.
- RWC doesn't bother anyone else, although in a smaller theater a slight glow, at the rear of the theater, might be visible to some people.
- Not many theaters in each state are equipped to show movies with captioning. That is improving, but the choices are still limited. You are fortunate if you live in the Boston area or within driving distance to one of the movie theaters that offers captioned access or audio desriptive service for those with vision impairment.
- Only one movie at a time is shown with captioning at the chain theater locations, so if a theater has 12 screens (theaters), only one theater is equipped to show a movie with RWC. The movies chosen to be shown with captioning is determined by the movie studios.
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| IMAX THEATERS |
| The Museum of Science Boston: Rear Window Captioning is available at IMAX
shows (RWC) and Planetarium shows with closed captioning (CC).
Check the museum website
for showtimes and ticket information. Jordan's Furniture, Reading and Natick,
no new information yet, as when the RWC and DVS will be working. |
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| WGBH NEWs about captioning and described movies |
| If you would like to learn about closed captioned and described films directly
from the Media Access Group at WGBH, please subscribe at
ncam.wgbh.org
To make sure you continue to receive MoPix News e-mails optimally and in your inbox
(not sent to bulk or junkmail folders), please add
mary_watkins@wgbh.org
to your address book or safe sender list. |
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| THEATERS NATIONWIDE with CAPTIONING |
| Go to the MOPIX website
ncam.wgbh.org/mopix/
for movie theater locations (addresses and phone info) that provide Rear Window Captioning
(RWC) or Descriptive Video Service (DVS). For more information on captioning and audio
descriptive access, go to
ncam.wgbh.org. |
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| More Information on CapTel |
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www.ultratec.com/info/CapTel.html.www.ultratec.com/info/CapTel.html. |
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