Marcus,
Unfortunately, whilst you are right in saying that similar types of
equipment are used more frequently in the US, this is not yet the case in
the UK.
If you go to http://www.yourlocalcinema.com/faq.html you can read more about
the equipment installed in Guilford, and also sign a petition to be sent to
the film council to request that they fund the installation of this style of
equipment in cinemas all over the country.
However, you will see from the website that the equipment is only part of
the solution, the films must be produced with audio description and
subtitles and at the moment this is not happening with all films.
Regards
Katherine Phipps
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: marcus ormerod [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 25 February 2002 16:07
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Guilford cinema
>
>
> HI all
>
> noticed in a recent copy of The Times (18-02-02 page 5) that they were
> claiming that a cinema in Guilford the first one to install a £10,000
> digital theatre system that uses infra-red signals to beam descriptive
> dialogue of the visual content aspects of the film to people wearing
> headphones in between the dialogue of the film. This leads me
> to think of a
> question and not being in Guilford I cannot pop down to the
> cinema to find
> out. The article does not say which cinema.
>
> The first question is whether it is being used on all films,
> all only those
> with additional sound track information, if it is the latter
> then how many
> films are being produced with this information currently and
> how can we
> encourage other film production units to use it?
>
> Secondly I am surprised that there have been no previous
> installations of
> this kind as it seems to be already established in the USA.
>
> cheers
> marcus
>
> Marcus Ormerod
> Director of SURFACE
> (Salford Research Focus on Accessible Environments)
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