MoPix Update from WGBH- February 23

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MoPix Update from WGBH- February 23

(An early update this week.)

1. MoPix Movie Opening Friday

2. New Access-Equipped Theater Debuts in MA this Week, Others Coming Soon

3. A Mom Writes to Us After Discovering DVS

4. Take a Survey: Text-to-Speech Delivery of Description for Web-based Video

5. Captions and Descriptions in Digital Cinema

6. MoPix Films Now Playing

7. MoPix Films Coming Soon

8. Credits

1. MoPix Movies Opening Friday, February 25

Hall Pass from Warner Bros. Pictures

(cc dvs) (rated R)

#cc dvs dcp#

A married man is granted the opportunity to have an affair by his wife.

Joined in the fun by his best pal, things get a little out of control when

both wives start engaging in extramarital activities as well. Written and

directed by the Farrelly brothers.

2. New MoPix-Equipped Theater Locations Coming Soon

- Massachusetts

AMC Burlington 10 – System now installed and running, see weekend

movies/times below

Auditorium 10

20 South Ave.

Burlington 781-229-1931

Wed-Thurs Feb 23-24: The Fighter (cc only, rated R)

11:20AM 2:00 5:20 8:10PM

Fri-Sat Feb 25-26: Big Momma's: Like Father, Like Son (cc dvs, rated PG-13)

10:05AM 12:50 4:05 6:40 9:20PM

AMC Chestnut Hill 5 – Coming Soon!

27 Boylston Street

Chestnut Hill 617 277-2502

AMC Dartmouth Mall 12 – Coming Soon!

140 N. Dartmouth Mall

North Dartmouth 508 999-3142

- Utah

Megaplex 13 at the Junction (was DVS Theatrical location, now installing a

Rear Window system as well)

2351 Kiesel Avenue

Ogden

- Virginia

Cobb CinéBistro @ Stony Point Fashion Park – Coming Soon!

9200 Stony Point Parkway

Richmond

- Washington

Bainbridge Cinemas (Rear Window System only at this location)

403 N. Madison Avenue

Bainbridge Island

3. A Mom Writes to Us After Discovering DVS

This came into via email this week, check out the mom's blog for more at

<http://www.highway59.blogspot.com/>:

Today my 3 year old son and I popped in the Netflix DVD of Toy Story 3 and

as I was getting it ready to roll, I noticed the language menu options. I

had never heard of the second choice English Descriptive Version so it took

me by complete surprise. After choosing that option, my heart filled with

gratitude for the work you have done.

Our baby was born last June with congenital cataracts and while she has some

vision, we know that her outlook on life will be greatly different from that

of our own. We have worked very hard and worried a lot concerning giving her

every chance for a great start in the learning process. What caught me off

guard when the amazing descriptions flowed into my ears, is that it mattered

to a group of hard working, obviously dedicated people that my little one

could also enjoy some of the good pleasures of life! Thanks a million.

--Find a list of all the DVDs that have an optional description track at

www.describedmovies.org.--

4. Take a Survey: Text-to-Speech Delivery of Description of Web-based Video

WGBH's Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media

(NCAM) is conducting a joint study with IBM-Japan on the feasibility of

using text-to-speech software to deliver descriptive narration of Web-based

video. No worries— we're not considering uses synthesized voices to

describe movies and TV, just video that appears on the Web (and that is

proliferating at a rapid pace). A survey is posted now at the URL below.

We invite people who are blind or have low vision and who are over 18 years

of age to take the survey, which will be posted until Friday, March 4. It is

fully accessible with screen readers, and should take between 45-60 minutes

(though folks report finishing it in less time).

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/461112/3i40b

5. Captions and Description for Digital Cinema

Currently Focus Features, Relativity Entertainment, Summit Entertainment,

Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Films, Walt Disney

Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures all provide closed captioned digital

cinema packages.

When a studio offers a closed captioned digital cinema package for the films

it releases, we will indicate such on the www.mopix.org site, and add this

line to the listing in our weekly update:

#cc dcp#

Twentieth Century Fox Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Walt Disney Studios

provide both captioned and audio described digital cinema packages for most

of their releases. When a studio provides both closed captioning and audio

description in a digital cinema package, we will indicate such on the MoPix

site and in our weekly update with:

##cc dvs dcp##

Learn more about access features for digital cinema from this resource we

maintain:

Access to Digital Cinema Systems/Frequently Asked Questions:

<http://tinyurl.com/y9h2k9p>

6. MoPix Films Now Playing

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