RESOLUTION 2008-11
RE: Audio Description of Films
WHEREAS, the movie-going experience for blind and visually impaired people is
enhanced by the provision of audio description of the characters, their actions, and the
scenery and the reading of subtitles during screening of the film; and
WHEREAS, only a few movie theatres show audio-described films regularly; and
WHEREAS, blindness and vision loss are increasing in the United States, and we are
becoming a more important segment of the entertainment market; and
WHEREAS, any financial burden to the motion picture industry that results from
providing audio description will be more than compensated for by the expanded
audience who will come to audio-described movies; and
WHEREAS, it is more cost-effective to add audio description to a film at the time of
production: NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind, in Convention assembled
this fifth day of July, 2008, in the city of Dallas, Texas, that this organization encourage
the motion picture industry to provide audio description of all new films as they are
being produced; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization encourage movie theaters to show
audio-described films as a matter of general practice.