Sunday, April 29, 2007
Over the Rainbow...
I share some of my experiences of my childhood where I grew for the first 6 to 7 years without the technology of captioning for the television set in my home. I also share a memory that many of you may find amusing and innocent. Feel free to share your experiences or leave a comment after viewing the video if you want to
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Good vlog!
ReplyDeleteI remember myself trying to record sound off PBS nature programs and playing them back to see if my pets got scared. This was before VCRs and CCs.
I was in a hearing school using sign lang interpreters. So I had the idea of getting the cassettes interpreted so I could know what was being talked about but never did.
I think I bought the portable cassette recorder from Radio Shack.
I know that my own grandchildren knew how to control the VCR, t.v. etc. before they could talk!
ReplyDeleteI can imagine how a deaf child would enjoy t.v. and cartoons even tho they could not hear the dialogue. Imagination is good education for a child. I recall my deaf preschoolers getting into arguments over what was actually happening on the screen because no one could hear and there were no captions in those days.
Banjo, do you feel that closed captions might have a part in you having outstanding English abilities?
Nice vlog, it is fun watching your facial expressions!
Lantana
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Click here for my video comment.
ReplyDeleteCarl, good point. I did not have closed captioned TV or movies until I was 17 years old. My mother said back then, closed captioning used shoddy English and she was afraid I would pick up on that. *shrugs*
ReplyDeleteI would often watch movies based on books - or get books made for the movies that came out. Like Star Wars, Black Beauty, and, of course, all the Disney movies. I was a huge fan of Wonder Woman, Charlie's Angels and Dukes of Hazard - man, I am showing my age here!
Anyway, reading a book lets one control the pace. One can read the same sentence again and again, or go back a sentence or two to figure out what a word meant, or skim a paragraph. One can ponder the words, the story, the character's motivation, etc.
hi,
ReplyDeleteI recall that deaf people were enjoying the movies with the books they have read... more exciting for them. I was in my first year of college when closed captioning box came out. Yeah, I missed out all my childhood, except for subtitling movies, and open captioned movies made for the deaf... remember those white print, that sometimes could not be seen on much light backgrounds, eh? anyway, Carl grew up with deaf family. I grew up with hearing parents with one deaf sibling and hearing siblings... anyway, what i wanted to mention this is I did not have sign language for communciation at home. even though i signed "behind my parents", I still did not have much communciatoini going on at home.. anyway, I watched tv a lot, but I got wrong impression that there always was problem solved within an hour, or a week. Not for the real world, the problems were much longer and much complicated than I thought after what I watched tv without closed captioned...
when cc came out, I watch tv, and I learned a great deal about socialization among hearing people. I realized what I watch TV without cc and what I watch TV with cc does make a big difference!! Yeah, i realized that problem solved was briefed based on a limited time, lol.. what a drag... lol...
deafk
I think most deafies cut their eyeteeth on books. I know I did. I even read the back of milk cartons, probably because I got left out at mealtimes. I was an expert on Breakfast Of Champions!
ReplyDeleteThe books that I read as a child or young adult did not become movies until much later. When a movie came out, and I realized I had read the book, I would go, hoping that I could enjoy the movie more. As a post linqual deaf person, it was not the same, but better than nothing. (To put it mildly).
I was lucky, I got to see The Wizard Of OZ before I lost my hearing. I can still remember the voice of Judy Garland. That is something I will never forget.
Those of us who survived pre-closed captioned movies appreciate what we have now all the more.
Personally, I do not go to movie houses. I have not been to a movie house since Marlee made Children Of A Lesser God. We belong to Netflix and that is good enough for me. I just feel blessed that we have what we have.
Respectfully, Lantana
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oh yes i am close ur age lol i am 21 will be 22 this june. anyway same thing i done when i was very little boy i don't have CC till i was 7 to 9 not remember whenever i start shocked CC being feel funny not make my thinking work hard. but i found out it's facts if we KEEP FIGURE WHAT'S GOING ON next happened as u said u can tell what happened same thing i do that it's make US MORE SMARTER THAN watch CC sometime i turn off CC make myself enjoy work hard to figure. it's fun hmm! thank for sharing and refresh my mind to memory my experience :D. so keep up with ur videoclips! :D
ReplyDeleteJoshua "Vampbat" Womick
I remember when i was watching tv without caption before 1980's, my mother always telling me to read something (book or newspaper) than no caption on tv. Finally, my deaf school has caption on tv. I was really so much enjoyed and I bought the caption box with my own tv. That time old cc box no longer made, the technology changed for cc into tv cc. By far, I love it and help deaf people read to improve the english better.
ReplyDeleteOnly thing I know for sure is that being-passive-because-of-captioning syndrome cannot be stopped now. From what I observe, when one is fully exposed to the captioning, he would fidget in his seat while watching a film without caption for the rest of his life. I am one of them, and I know it will be hard for me to get used to watching a film without caption. Therefore, all we can do is to encourage deaf kids to turn off television and read read read… just exactly like we have been doing with our hearing kids. This seems fulfill our desire of having the deaf to be equal with the hearing, isn’t this what we want? :-)
ReplyDelete-Noah
I feel like such a late bloomer sometimes ;-). I didn't actually start doing captions until a couple things: I got a TV made after 1993 (in 1998; my 1985 tv died that year) AND dvd's started to come out. And then it was just omygosh, maybe I do enjoy tv after all.
ReplyDelete(That said, as a kid I loved the superheroes stuff: batman, superman, incredible hulk, bionic woman.)
Confirmed bookworm here, though I've been catching up on all those old classic movies slowly but surely.
Thanks for all the comments, it's interesting to see how our experiences differ in some ways. :-)
ReplyDeleteCarl, thanks for using the video as a comment. I really enjoyed it.