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From: Bill Pasco <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Perhaps a middle road is in order.  The NFB at times has a point about
> being independent.  However, if their attitude were followed to its
> logical conclussion, then we would have no canes, braille, adaptive
> equipment or much else.  This is a contridictory premise.
>
> On the other hand, what a movie manufacturer spends on a film would
> astound you.  Money is spent, and lavishly, on some of the most amazing
> things.  In the grand scheme of things, the cost of preparing and
> including descriptive video during the final production of the film,
> would be nearly invisible.  In addition, it would create still another
> job for a scriptor, a voice talent, and an engineer or two.
>
> Any resistance the film industry might put up is more related to having
> to change than any real financial burden.  Since the film industry
> admits openly how left leaning it is, it would seem a natural for it to
> find a social conscience on the subject of captioning and description.
>
> Bill Pasco