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News from the National Captioning Institute, Inc.

July 1, 2010

NCI Partners with Public Television Networks, Program Producers and Cable Networks to Describe a Wide Range of Programming

Descriptions Made Possible by Funding From the U.S. Department of Education

NCI Described Video, which is also known as audio description, video description or DVI (Descriptive Video Information), provides access to television programming for people who are blind or have low vision, an estimated American audience of about 12 million. Through a detailed process that provides concise yet vivid descriptions of a program's visual elements during pauses in the dialogue, NCI Described Video helps people who are visually impaired to "paint a picture" in their minds of those images that others take for granted.

Descriptions can be heard through the Secondary Audio Programming (SAP) option on the Multi-channel Television Sound (MTS) feature on most newer televisions and usually accessed through the remote control. With digital cable or satellite services, the SAP or alternate audio channels are selected using the remote for the set-top box. Check your local listings to see if the following programs are available in your area with descriptions.

Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea, a highly acclaimed series that first aired on public television stations in 2009, is available on DVD and Blu-ray with video description. For more information about the series, click here to go to the PBS Website.

New Public Television – Regularly Scheduled Series
Dinosaur Train
Gary Spetz's Watercolor Quest
Knit and Crochet Now!
Moneywise with Kelvin Boston

New Public Television – Specials & Limited Duration Series
Battle of Wills
Benjamin Latrobe: America’s Finest Architect
Billy Connolly: Journey to the Edge of the World
Charlie Bird’s Arctic Journey
Cheetah Man
Falsifyin’ (the story of boogie woogie music)
Great African Balloon Adventure, The
Greetings from Asbury Park
Hide and Seek
Human Spark, The
Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist
Navy Heroes of Normandy
San Francisco Quake: A Matter of Seconds
Science & Islam
Secrets of the Stones
Shooting Beauty
Urban Nutcracker
World's Greatest Musical Prodigies, The
Worse Than War

Previously Listed Public Television – Regularly Scheduled Series
Big Green Rabbit
Christina Cooks
Classical Stretch
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Clifford’s Puppy Days
Creative Living with Sheryl Borden
Dragon Tales
Electric Company, The
Everyday Food
Focus Asia
For Your Home
Gary Spetz's Painting Wild Places with Watercolors
Glass with Vicki Payne
Globe Trekker
Health Sense
Keeping Kids Healthy
Little Amadeus
Lomax the Hound of Music
Maya and Miguel
Native Report, The
One Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home (season 8)
Paint, Paper and Crafts
Painting the West with Fred Oldfield
Plaza Sesamo
Plein Air: Painting the American Landscape
Reading Rainbow
Ribert and Robert's WonderWorld
Secrets of the Dead
SeeMore's Playhouse
Sesame Street
Scheewe Art Workshop
Sid the Science Kid
Venture North
Woodwright's Shop, The
Word Girl
Wyland's Art Studio
Your Brush with Nature
Zonya's Health Bites
Zula Patrol, The

Previously Listed Public Television – Specials & Limited Duration Series
A Walk in the Park with Nick Molle - Real Rocky
Abby in Wonderland – Sesame Street Special
Accidents in Space
Addo's Elephants
Adventures with a Purpose: Morocco
Africa Trek
Afropop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange
Albert Alcalay: Self-Portraits
All About Prints
America at a Crossroads
Arctic Bound
Ascent of Money, The
Blood Detectives
Born To Be King: Charles at 60
Buchenwald Ball Character Studies, The
Carrier
Chocolate Alchemy
Churchill's Girl
Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain
Color of War: Adolph Hitler
Cotswolds: England's Spiritual Home
Cousins
Craft in America
Crown Princess Martha
Curious
Day We Learned to Think, The
Dolphins: The Code Breaker
Earth Factor Asia
Equitrekking
Eroica
Families Stand Together: Feeling Secure in Tough Times
Flying with Eagles
Fueling our Future
Future of News, The
GardenStory
Gates of the Arctic
Gateway Arch: A Relection of America
Ghosts of the Baltic Sea
God on the Brain
Golden Triangle of Destiny – Sesame Street Special
Gorillas: On the Trail of King Kong
Guarding the Queen
Hard Problems
High Clouds Railway to Tibet
Horatio’s Drive
Human Face, The
Humpback Whale
Jewish Americans, The
Joe Louis: The Boxer Who Beat Hitler
Journey Out of Silence: The Heather Whitestone Story
Journey to Palomar
Lancaster at War
Last Best Hope: A True Story of Escape, Evasion and Remembrance
Last Ghost of War, The
Lion Man
Looking for an Icon
Looking for Lincoln
Making Sense of Place
Medal of Honor
Monarchy with David Starkey
Mozart: Looking for Traces
Mt. Fuji: A Visual Poem
Mysterious Human Heart, The
National Parks: America's Best Idea, The - a Ken Burns documentary series
New Metropolis, The
Normandie: A Legendary Liner
Objects and Memory
Oceanos
People's Palace, The
Planet Forward
Queen Victoria: Secrets of a Queen
Queen's Coronation: Behind Palace Doors, The
Quest
Reporting America at War
Ripple in the Water: Healing Through Art
Rough Crossings
Rumi Returning
Scheewe Art Workshop
Spain...on the Road Again
Story of India, The
Supreme Court, The
Talking through Walls
Terry Sanford & the New South
Tom Kean: The Politics of Possibility
Travels with a Tangerine
Truth According to Wikipedia, The
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Visionaries, The
VOCES
Voyages of Discovery
Wanderers of the Deep
War in Iraq, The - Through Photographer's Eyes
Warplane
We of the Saya
Weapons of World War II
Whales of Atlantis
When Learning Comes Naturally
Where the Ocean Meets the Sky
Wildside with Nick Molle - Costa Rica
Windsors, the Royal Dynasty
With All Deliberate Speed
Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow, The
World Class Trains
WWII: The Complete History
Zora's Roots

ESPN
SportsFigures

Nickelodeon
Ned’s School Survival Guide

Noggin/The N
64 Zoo Lane
A Walk in Your Shoes
Franklin
Jack's Big Music Show
Little Bear
Miffy and Friends
Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
O’Grady
Tiny Planets

Ovation
Teddy Edwards
Piotr Anderszewski: The Unquiet Traveller
Betrayal: The Life and Art of Rudolf Bauer
Kids of Survival
OT: Our Town
Dance School: Juilliard
Glen Gould: Hereafter
Howlin' Wolf Story
Search for Robert Johnson
Satchmo: Louis Armstrong
Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Havana
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and The Glory
Masters of American Music: Billie Holiday
Masters of American Music: Count Basie
Masters of American Music: Bluesland, A Portrait of American Music
Masters of American Music: Story of Jazz
Mr. Prince
Making of Phantom of the Opera
Theremin: an Electronic Odyssey
Making of Phantom of the Opera
Mr. Prince
Monumental Vision
Comic Book Confidential
Brilliant Green
Earl Cunningham: the Dragon of St. George Street
James Castle: Portrait of an Artist
Mr. Dial Has Something to Say
School's Out
A Man Named Pearl
What's Under Your Hat?
Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture
The Art of Francis Bacon
Driven by Vision
Bauhaus: The Face of the 20th Century Piet Mondrian: Mr. Boogie Woogie Man
Visions of Space
Renzo Piano: Piece by Piece
Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect
In Search of Clarity: The Architecture of Gwathmey Siegel
Everything is Art
Designer People
Classical Star
Blues Odyssey

Syndicated Series
Dragonfly TV
SWAP-TV

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Editor’s note: The programs listed above are described by NCI using funding from the U.S. Department of Education. Closed captioning and post-production costs are paid for by the networks and producers.

For More Information:

Contact: Jay Feinberg

703-917-7600 (V/TTY)

703-917-9853 (FAX)

jfeinberg@ncicap.org

 

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