Fw: Movie: Apollo 13

[Janina Sajka]

This wouldn't be the new NFB strategy now, would it? I thought NFB's problem was described entertainment was
inappropriate for blind people. Instead, we're supposed to have news and educational matter. Am I wrong?


Darrell Shandrow writes:
> From: "Darrell Shandrow" <nu7i at azboss.net>
> 
> Hi Charles,
> 
> Hmmm, well, I doubt that simply because the entertainment industry is not
> being forced to provide audio description that means in any way that the
> future of voluntary audio description is in jeopardy.  I'm certain projects
> like DVS would certainly continue as they are now; I do sure wish more
> titles were available!
> 
> You know, I think celebrities should apply some pressure on the rest of the
> industry to provide greater audio description for the movies in which they
> star.  I mean, most already have a rather lengthy liberal record.  How about
> instead of supporting un-American institutions such as terrorists and
> corrupted charities, they support blind Americans?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Crawford" <CCrawford at ACB.org>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Movie: Apollo 13
> 
> 
> > Interesting posting after yesterday's court ruling.  Will video
> description
> > survive?  Damn right it will and all who care about it will need to work
> > with ACB to make it happen.
> >
> > -- charlie Crawford.
> > At 08:52 AM 11/09/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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> > >Subject: Movie: Apollo 13
> > >
> > >
> > > > Pebbles-XFM is showing the audio-described movie Apollo 13 on 9
> November
> > >at
> > > > 20:00 UTC, 8pm UK time, and 3pm Eastern. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred
> Haise
> > > > and Jack Swigert try to come back alive after an explosion aborts the
> > >April
> > > > 1970 moonshot. From Lovell's memoir "Lost Moon". Starring Tom Hanks,
> Bill
> > > > Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan Ron
> Howard
> > > > Rated PG
> > > >
> > > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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