Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Petition: Tell AMC, Regal Cinemas, and other major movie companies to incorporate captions into all movie showings!

numol:

eateroftrees:

metapianycist:

anderjak:

adriofthedead:

kreedkafer:

verticalvest:

padwing:

stfufauxminists:

Here’s the petition I said I would start to try to get movie theaters to respect the needs of folks with hearing deficits. Captions are necessary for many people who have hearing loss to understand what is going on in films. There’s no reason why there can’t be captions to help them out. I’m going for 100,000 here, and I think that if everyone who reads my tumblr promotes the petition to at least one person, we can make that goal. Please help me make that happen!

 This is funny because most movie theaters have at least one theater that has captions running backwards at the back of the theater, allowing the hearing impaired to use a mirror to read the captions without impedeng the experience of other moviegoers

make sure that what you’re petitioning for doesn’t already exist. otherwise you’re going to look like an asshole.

Wow… that sounds like an unnecessarily horrible way to watch a movie.  

why the hell would you want to be lookking at a mirror when you’re supposed to be watching a movie

I used to work at an AMC and I can vouch for this. Basically, people who were hearing impaired had to wear these stupid glasses on their face that reflected the backwards captions from the back of the theatre. I wore one once out of curiosity and it was nothing but a fucking headache. Literally.

It’s possible to run close-captioned movies without completely stripping away the dignity and convenience of those with disabilities. As for ”impending the experience of the other movie-goers”…? That’s a load of horseshit.

OH NO I CAN’T DEAL WITH WORDS ON A SCREEN

Operas have been doing superscript where they just shoot a projector with the translation on a smaller screen directly above the stage so people can understand the lyrics. It’s not all that hard.

Supertitles at operas are my favorite things. <3

Mirrored subtitles would be enormously more distracting then correct direction ones.  I’ll start spending mental energy to read them (I mean really mirroring text does not obscure it that much) and, you know, end up super distracted.

Also I mean like any sort of thing that requires glasses is not going to work for someone who, you know, already needs glasses for other things.

this still needs lots of signatures, please sign/pass it around if you can.

Posted at 10:03 PM 186 notes Reblogged from numol Tags: subtitles urgent action alert activism petition petitions amc regal cinemas theater theatre cinema cinemas please reblog ableism discrimination

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  1. girl-in-a-wheelchair reblogged this from flutterflyinvasion and added:
    The thought occurs that with the advent of digital projectors, any cinema screen can have subtitles/supertitles...
  2. moonbehindclouds reblogged this from arimizuko and added:
    Expanding on the immediate above comment: Mandatory subtitles would also be useful when watching movies where a lot of...
  3. arimizuko reblogged this from bittergrapes
  4. temporallyfixed reblogged this from ceasesilence
  5. thecometreturns reblogged this from goldenheartedrose and added:
    just enjoy reading captions and watching things (:
  6. minionier reblogged this from bittergrapes and added:
    Oh my god yes, please.
  7. strawberry-astronaut reblogged this from caterfree10 and added:
    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU As a person who suffers from hearing loss, it is very disappointing...
  8. caterfree10 reblogged this from ceasesilence
  9. flutterflyinvasion reblogged this from nicocoer
  10. nekobakaz reblogged this from goldenheartedrose and added:
    More closed captioning in movie theatres, FTW!!!
  11. whatevertheheckles reblogged this from formerlyanon
  12. stogucheme reblogged this from goldenheartedrose and added:
    I actually vote for keeping non-captioned and having captioned text. Some people I know have a hard time watching the...
  13. formerlyanon reblogged this from goldenheartedrose
  14. goldenheartedrose reblogged this from bittergrapes and added:
    Yep, as a person who has to watch tv with closed captioning because of auditory processing issues, this needs more...
  15. ceasesilence reblogged this from bittergrapes and added:
    It’s really not a big deal to have captions on all movies. In movie theaters in Israel (at least the ones I went to) all...
  16. lantean reblogged this from bittergrapes
  17. bittergrapes reblogged this from nicocoer and added:
    I think a lot of people would find this useful, actually. Those for whom English is a second or third language can...
  18. nicocoer reblogged this from numol
  19. numol reblogged this from eateroftrees and added:
    this still needs lots of signatures, please sign/pass it around if you can.
  20. xx-rapunzel-xx reblogged this from stfufauxminists and added:
    ———— This only has 154 signatures out of 100,000 as of 11/22/11 :(
  21. aimsme reblogged this from queerandpresentdanger
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  24. velocicrafter reblogged this from everythingdolls
  25. everythingdolls reblogged this from jerrymuffinbutt and added:
    My eldest daughter is deaf. It would be nice to be able to go to see a film with her without having to interpret what...
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  30. kelly-thistle reblogged this from stfufauxminists
  31. wholewheatpeeta reblogged this from stfufauxminists and added:
    I don’t have a hearing deficit but my twin sister is completely deaf in one ear. Whenever we watch DVDs like Doctor Who...
  32. thaddeusgrey reblogged this from dysanic
  33. dysanic reblogged this from i-sauntered-vaguely-downwards and added:
    Captions in movie theaters (on English movies) would be seriously amazing. Please sign!
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