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Decades later, movie studios started to make captioned film prints available for occasional showings in movie theaters. In 1996, the NAD established the Movie Access Coalition, which later became known as the Coalition for Movie Captioning, to advocate for increased showings of captioned movies. Within a few years, new caption display technologies became available to provide access to movie theater services, without the need to produce captioned film prints. </p> <p>Today, there are captioned movies being shown every day in hundreds of movie theaters across the country. These numbers are positive, but pale by comparison to the number of movie theaters in the United States. In fact, only about 1% of all of the movies being shown in movie theaters today are shown with captions. At the current rate that movie theaters are installing caption display systems, it will take more than 30 years for every movie theater to have one caption display system and over 200 years for every movie theater screen in America to be equipped to display captions. Advocacy action at every level – local, state, and national – is needed to increase the pace of progress.</p> <p>Digital movies hold the promise of providing captions anywhere at any time. The transition from movie film prints to digital movie production, distribution, and display has been and is expected to be underway for many years. It is expected that digital cinema equipment will be compatible with the caption display systems used in movie theaters today. In addition, digital movies enable the display of captions without any caption display equipment. Movie theaters should be able to select captions from the movie display menu, much like selecting subtitles for other languages or “subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing” people available on many movie DVDs today.</p> <p>The NAD continues to advocate for increased showings of captioned movies, through existing and future caption display systems. People who are deaf or hard of hearing want to be able to attend any showing of any movie in any theater at any time, to sit anywhere in the movie theater with their family and friends, and to have equal access to the movie soundtrack through high quality captioning that is consistently reliable. The NAD is committed to achieving that goal.</p> <p><strong>Related Issue</strong>: <a href="/web/20160107193843/https://nad.org/issues/technology">Technology</a></p> <div id="recent"> <h4>Recent NAD Action Highlights</h4> <ul> <li>The NAD filed a "friend of the court" brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit urging the Court to rule that the ADA requires movie theaters to display captions to ensure that deaf or hard of hearing individuals can participate fully and equally in the experience of going to see a movie. A federal district court judge in Arizona had earlier ruled that movie theaters are not required to display captions because captions alter a movie by changing audio content into visual content.</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid_4"> <div class="box sidebar"> <div class="block" id="sublink"> <div id="sidebar-right" class="side-column region grid-3"> <div class="article"> <div id="block-block-2" class="clear-block block block-block"> <div class="content"><div class="first article"><h3>Learn More</h3><ul><li><a href="/web/20160107193843/https://nad.org/issues/technology/movie-captioning/technologies">Movie Captioning Technologies</a></li><li><a href="/web/20160107193843/https://nad.org/issues/technology/movie-captioning/advocacy">Captioned Movie Access Advocacy </a></li><li><a href="/web/20160107193843/https://nad.org/issues/technology/movie-captioning/timeline">Captioned Movie Access Advocacy – Timeline</a></li><li><a href="/web/20160107193843/https://nad.org/issues/technology/movie-captioning/cases">Captioned Movie Access Advocacy - Cases</a></li></ul></div><div class="article"><h3>Get Involved</h3><ul><li>Become an educated and experienced captioned movie consumer and advocate. Learn about captioned movie display systems. Find and attend captioned movie showings.</li><li>Write to the movie studio, thank them for captioning the movie you saw, and ask them to caption all of their new movies. </li><li>Write to the movie theater manager and theater chain headquarters, thank them for making movies accessible through captioning, and ask them to make more captioned movies available so you can have a choice of movies to see. </li><li>If the movie you want to see was not captioned, write to the movie studio and ask them to caption all of their new movies. </li><li>If your neighborhood movie theater does not show movies with captions, give the theater manager information about captioned movies, and ask the theater manager and theater chain headquarters to provide access to their movies through captioning. </li><li>Tell us about your movie access advocacy efforts.</li></ul></div></div> </div> <div id="block-views-rotor-block_1" class="clear-block block block-views"> <div class="content"><div class="view view-rotor view-id-rotor view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-1"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="rotor" id="rotor-view-id-rotor-view-display-id-block_1"> <div class="rotor-items" style=" width: 210px; height: 200px;"> <div class="rotor-content"><div class="rotor-content-detail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843/http://www.zvrs.com/products/z5-max"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/default/files/rotor/Z5Max-210x80.png" alt="" title="" width="210" height="80"/></a></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear-block"></div> <div class="grid_16" id="site_info"> <div class="box"> <div class="box_left"> <p><a href="/web/20160107193843/https://nad.org/news/feed">Subscribe to feed</a></p> <img src="/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/all/themes/nad2/img/rss.jpg" alt="RSS icon" class="rss"/> <p><a href="/web/20160107193843/https://nad.org/civicrm/mailing/subscribe?reset=1">Subscribe to E-News</a></p> <img src="/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/all/themes/nad2/img/rss.jpg" alt="RSS icon" class="rss"/> <p><a href="/web/20160107193843/https://nad.org/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a> <!-- <a href="#">Site Map</a></p> --> <p class="address">National Association of the Deaf | 8630 Fenton Street, Suite 820, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3819</p> </div> <div class="box_right"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843/http://www.facebook.com/pages/NAD/152917038809"> <img src="/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/all/themes/nad2/img/icon_facebook.png" class="social" alt="facebook logo"/> </a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843/http://twitter.com/nad1880"> <img src="/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/all/themes/nad2/img/icon_twitter.png" class="social" alt="twitter logo"/> </a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843/http://www.youtube.com/nadvlogs"> <img src="/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/all/themes/nad2/img/icon_youtube.png" class="social" alt="youtube logo"/> </a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843/http://instagram.com/nad1880"> <img src="/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/all/themes/nad2/img/icon_instagram.png" class="social" alt="instagram logo"/> </a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843/http://www.linkedin.com/company/national-association-of-the-deaf"> <img src="/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/all/themes/nad2/img/icon_linkedin.png" class="social" alt="linkedin logo"/> </a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843/https://www.flickr.com/photos/nadconf12/"> <img src="/web/20160107193843im_/https://nad.org/sites/all/themes/nad2/img/icon_flickr.png" class="social" alt="flickr logo"/> </a></br> </div> <!-- credits goes here <div class="credit">Powered by </div> --> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160107193843js_/https://nad.org/sites/default/files/js/js_6bef910a6d44f2adfefef0d29df2be73.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, {"googleCSE":{"language":"en"}}); //--><!]]> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- var _gaq = _gaq || [];_gaq.push(["_setAccount", "UA-9555878-1"]);_gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]);(function() {var ga = document.createElement("script");ga.type = "text/javascript";ga.async = true;ga.src = ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? 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