Some years back, a friend asked me if I would be interested in adding visual cues to enhance the enjoyment of movies to those who have vision problems. I thought it was a great idea, and for a time, I helped to enhance soundtrack for many movies. Maybe you have rented one and never realized that it was me who was describing what was going on during the times in the film when there was no dialogue.
It is a short blog tonight; just one item that directly relates to the second hour of the radio program, an hour that deals with saber-tooth tigers and a little boy who had impaired vision. I found this some years back in the 1989 edition of The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, published by D.C. Thomson and Company. I wanted to share it with you. It might give you something to think about while listening to the program tonight.
“Louis was a little blind boy in the French town of Coupvray at a time when there was a lot of unemployment. It is recorded that in Coupvray alone there were 72 men who were unable to find a job and had time on their hands. Some of them helped Louis by scratching a deep groove in the pathway down which he loved to wander, so that he could push his stick along it and follow the winding route safely as it twisted its way to a pond where he loved to play. Others helped him to learn where he was by listening to the chimes of the church clock. When he grew older, Louis Braille never forgot the kindness of those unemployed men. As they had helped him, so he, too, assisted others by inventing the system of reading and writing which is still a blessing to blind people the world over.”
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Don Jackson
