Open-Captioned Films Seem Problematic With Caption Visibility

Two recent summertime flicks with open captions like "UP" and "Land of the Lost" seems very hard to read very thin white captions on brighter film background. Don't you have a similar problem with open-captioned films lately?

What about parents of deaf children's hard-earned spendings on movie tixs undermined by poor quality of open captions?

Film viewing at the multiplex theatre ought to be non-stressful and non-frustrating experience for deaf youth moviegoers.

Why can't the distributors and caption typists simply do the usual yellow subtitles for many foreign films? So we could easily read the open captions on multiplex screens without any kind of eye strains and body tiltings. Don't you agree?

What could we do is to contact the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) and film distributors and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to address problematic issue of "difficult to read" open captions on brighter film background.

Here are the e-contacts/mailing address -

National Association of Theatre Owners - nato@natod.com
750 First Street NE
Suite #1130
Washington, DC

Regal Entertainment Complex (Regal Theatres) - www.regmovies.com/corporate/contact.aspx

Also check out http://regmovies.com/comment/aspx for leaving your comments

Real Images Media Technology, DTS Cinema Subtitling - http://www.realimage.com/contact-us This cinema subtitling company is based in India

Datasat Digtial Entertainment - dtsaccess@datasatdigtial.com
or call toll-free within the U.S. and Canada
#1-888-428-2268 or much faster connection - 1-818-531-003
(You will not pay for this LD phone bill anyway thru the use of VRS
and relay calls)

If any of you used to watch the original "Land of the Lost" Saturday morning tv programming on NBC. You ought to know that actor Wesley Eure recently admitted that he is totally gay himself and used to date actor Richard Chamberlian, another closeted gay actor until recent years ago.

Here is the attached link to Wesley Eure being gay and latest photos of this actor -
http://boyculture.typepad.com/boy_culture/wesley-eure/

ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog