Introducing an entertainment format that's a brand new way of going to the movies a format that offers you new revenue potential through additional product and distribution avenues.

AudioCinema combines the sound track of a movie - the voices, sounds and music - with a special narration of the movie's visual action. Together, sound and story create a uniquely engaging experience in the mind's eye.

More dynamic and engaging than audio books which are now a billion-dollar-a-year industry in North America -- consumers can enjoy AudioCinema presentations anywhere: while walking the dog, commuting, jogging or preparing dinner.

This is much better than an audio book. Instead of just one voice reading, you've got all the characters, plus the music and the sound effects, says one fan.

Available on CD or audio-cassette, AudioCinema represents a new revenue source from such markets as:

* Consumers
* Libraries
* Institutions
* Radio Services

With distribution outlets in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and online, AudioCinema provides new access into the consumer market. The production cost is minimal. A feature film can cost as little as $1500.

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To learn more about AudioCinema, see the recent article in 50 Plus Magazine.

Hearing is Seeing: Movies on Audio tape

No lights...no camera...but there's plenty of action happening in the theatre of your mind. A new art form developed by AudioVision enables vision-impaired people to see films. But in a serendipitous twist, AudioCinema movies on audio tape may find an even larger audience among fully-sighted people.

AudioCinema combines the soundtrack of a movie the voices, sounds and music with a special narration of the movie's visual action. Together, sound and story create a uniquely engaging experience in the mind's eye and ear.

AudioCinema grew out of our work describing movies and television programs for people with impaired vision, explains Dr. Marc Rosen of AudioVision. We create a concise narration of the visual action in a movie and then weave it into the soundtrack in a way that complements the dialogue and sound effects. The added narration allows people who can't see the screen to picture' what's happening for themselves.

What's different about AudioCinema, Rosen says, is first that it's packaged, for extra convenience, on audio cassette or CD; so it can be played on any audio cassette player for example a Walkman or car stereo. And second it appeals to everyone who enjoys movies. It's really a brand new form of audio entertainment.

Audio books, read by authors or actors, have developed a North American market of $1 billion annually. Commuters enjoy hearing a book as they travel or battle traffic jams; people listen to them while jogging, walking the dog, lounging around the pool or preparing dinner. But audio movies?

Our feedback is that AudioCinema is even better than books on tape, says Rosen. Instead of just one voice reading to you, you've got all the characters' voices, plus the music and the sound effects. So it's a richer, more entertaining experience.

The music swells as the narrator announces the opening credits: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton in Witness for the Prosecution... A few well-chosen words of description set the opening scene in a chauffeured car. And within seconds you're completely caught up in the movie playing inside your head.

It's surprisingly engaging, Rosen agrees. Probably because it appeals so strongly to your imagination.

Watching a movie, he explains, is essentially a passive experience, because someone else has imagined exactly how it looks. You just sit there and take it in. Listening to a movie is a more active experience. When the picture isn't there, the soundtrack and the narration together encourage you to imagine what's happening for yourself. So you're actively involved in the experience.

AudioVision is part of the National Broadcast Reading Service Inc. (NBRS), a non-profit organization that makes media and information more accessible to people with impaired or low vision.

Another NBRS division, VoicePrint Canada, provides printed news and information in audio format via cable TV and/or cable FM. Reaching 8 million homes across the country, VoicePrint Canada is a 24-hour-a-day audio newsstand with up-to-date readings of full-length articles, columns and feature reports from more than a hundred Canadian newspapers and magazines.

Because AudioCinema appeals to a wide general audience, Rosen is hoping it will help NBRS become self-sufficient. AudioCinema offers terrific entertainment value. And the added income will help us continue providing our services to people with diminished vision. It will also allow AudioVision to make more classic movies available in this unique format that everyone can enjoy.

The current AudioCinema catalogue includes:

• Monster's Ball with Halle Berry and Billy Bob Thornton
• Gods and Monsters with Ian McKellen and Brendan Fraser
• The Bells of St. Mary's with Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman
• Blackbeard the Pirate with Robert Newton and Linda Darnell
• His Girl Friday with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell
• The Inspector General with Danny Kaye
• My Man Godfrey with Carole Lombard and William Powell
• One-Eyed Jacks with Marlon Brandon and Karl Malden
• Our Town with William Holden and Martha Scott
• The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara
• Shane with Alan Ladd and Jack Palance
• Suddenly with Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden
• The 39 Steps with Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll
• Vengeance Valley with Burt Lancaster and Robert Walker

Listening to a classic movie can be a delightful way to spend a couple of hours on a rainy day, or when you're travelling by car, train or plane.