That's an intersting list. Are they on CD's or cassettes or downloadable?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tanya Perez" <tanyaaperez@...>
To: <audible@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:59 PM
Subject: [audible] Audio Sub-titled Soundtracks (was Re: wish list)



Full Cast Audio, L.A. Theater Works, Hollywood Theater of the Ear and,
Graphic Audio (" A
Movie in Your Mind") are some of the audiobook companies that produce fully
dramatized
titles. Each audiobook adapts the original material so that the action is
clear from the
narrative sections, the dialogue and/or, the sound effects. I would be more
inclined to
check those out than the audio-subtitled soundtracks but I would have to
reserve
judgement until I could hear a sample of one.

--- In audible@yahoogroups.com, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@...> wrote:
>
> It's interesting that some countries insisted on including that speed for
> potential use of visually impaired people because here in the U.S., the
> idea
> is that they're so careful to limit and control the use of special formats
> for the disabled because of copyright concerns. You know, they don't want
> fully sighted people to have the use of special formats because then the
> publishers' copyrights won't be protected.
>
> And if anyone else beside the two of us is reading this there's been a
> discussion among blind people as to whether fully sighted people would be
> interested in described films. It has to do with distribution of the
> sound
> tracks of films which include added description of the action. For those
> of
> us who are blind, the description is the big deal and there are blind
> people
> who download these described movie soundtracks to their streams and listen
> to them. Some people think that sighted people would be interested in
> listening to them just as you listen to audio books. Some people, like
> me,
> think that they wouldn't. I'm wondering what people on this list think.
> This would be just a sound track with all the action described so you
> wouldn't need to see it in order to know what's going on.
>
> Miriam
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sharol" <ctutor@...>
> To: <audible@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 9:01 PM
> Subject: RE: [audible] wish list
>
>
> Nah, these were recorded at 16 2/3. The reason I'm so sure is that I
> tried
> to find a record player to play some of them for my daughter when she was
> little 1979 or 1980. They weren't 33 1/3, they were half speed and labled
> "Talking Book."
>
>
>
> "16 2/3 RPM - This speed was used almost exclusively for spoken word
> content, in particular for the "talking books" used by the visually
> impaired. For this reason, the inclusion of a 16 2/3 speed setting on
> turntables was compulsory in some countries for many years, despite the
> records themselves being a rarity. Cassette
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape> tapes proved to be a far
> more
> popular format for such spoken content. Chrysler's short-lived Highway
> Hi-Fi
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Hi-Fi> format also used 16 2/3
> 7"s."
> is from Wikipedia. They don't indicate a date, but I know Mother had them
> in the early 50's when I was 6 or 7 years old.
>
>
>
> As I recall, the school bought a bunch of them for a blind student who
> subsequently moved, so Mother brought them home to listen to when they
> weren't needed at school. When we moved, the school eliminated the
> library
> (the high school became consolidated) and we kept the records.
>
>
>
> Sharol
>
> _____
>
> From: audible@yahoogroups.com [mailto:audible@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of
> Miriam Vieni
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 7:31 PM
> To: audible@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [audible] wish list
>
>
>
> Sharol,
>
> I think maybe in the 50's, they were 33 1/3 records and before, in the
> 40's,
>
> they were smaller than the typical 33 1/3 record and they were made of
> this
> red plastic. Well, in the 40's, I was in elementary school and I only
> heard
> those in school. I remember Alice in Wonderland, and it was truly
> wonderful! To me, the change from those records to what we have today is
> just amazing. For me to decide on a Saturday night that I want a
> particular
> book, find it on a website, download it and read it on Sunday is truly a
> miracle.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sharol" <ctutor@sbcglobal. <mailto:ctutor%40sbcglobal.net> net>
> To: <audible@yahoogroups <mailto:audible%40yahoogroups.com> .com>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 8:16 PM
> Subject: RE: [audible] wish list
>
> My mother was a librarian in a high school library in the '50s, and so she
> had access to some of those old phonograph record "talking" books. I
> listened to Gulliver's Travels (just the first part Lilliput and
> Brobdingnag) several times as an elementary school students. She also had
> poetry - The Highwayman comes to mind. They were recorded at 16 2/3 and
> required a record player that would play that speed. My parents bought
> just
> such a record player so that I could listen to these books. You brought
> back some very pleasant memories. I wonder what happened to those records?
> Hmmmm. Maybe in storage.
>
> Sharol
>