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What they provide is a text transcription of every words spoken (文字起こし) accompanying by a screenshot of the relevant scenes (in its original language). It’s les

by sirn 2y ago

What they provide is a text transcription of every words spoken (文字起こし) accompanying by a screenshot of the relevant scenes (in its original language). It’s less like elaborated summaries and more among the line of "posting a closed caption along with a relevant screenshot"

crazygringo 2y ago
So you can read the movie like a comic book? That's actually... kinda cool. I can totally see how that should be copyright infringement (as opposed to just subtitle files). But at the same time, I'd really like to try "reading" a movie that way, just to see what it's like.
- exlurker 2y ago
  Now that you mention it, I remember reading through the entire first script of of Alien from 1976[1], which was really cool. I now feel an urge to re-experience that. [1] http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_early.html http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_early.html
- dxbydt 2y ago
  > So you can read the movie like a comic book? people also enjoy the opposite experience. when my kid was 4-5, we watched these youtube videos which were just books. the camera hovered over a page of nursery rhymes, and the narrator would read them out loud. its fairly popular among immigrant parents who don’t speak good English but whose kids go to school in the us/uk etc. I wouldn’t know the meaning or how to pronounce several phrases in say Little Jack Horner sat in a corner etc. - so better to watch the book than read it. I also follow a journalist on twitter who makes these videos of the new york times. So instead of subscribing to the newspaper and reading it, I am watching the newspaper being read by this journalist, who then adds some color to the topic as well, so I know what to think about this topic.
  - djhn 2y ago
    Do you have a link or some searchable name for the journalist? I’ve been intrigued by this genre for a while now.
    - dxbydt 2y ago
      The hashtag is #NYTReadalong. https://x.com/hashtag/NYTReadalong?src=hashtag_click https://x.com/hashtag/NYTReadalong?src=hashtag_click
- jfengel 2y ago
  It was briefly a thing in the 1970s. They called it a "fotonovel", and similar names: https://www.allaboutthewaltons.com/merchandising/fotonovel.php https://www.allaboutthewaltons.com/merchandising/fotonovel.p... The Star Trek ones were particularly popular.
  - crazygringo 2y ago
    That's wild! Thanks so much for sharing.

by sirn 2y ago

crazygringo 2y ago

So you can read the movie like a comic book? That's actually... kinda cool. I can totally see how that should be copyright infringement (as opposed to just subtitle files). But at the same time, I'd really like to try "reading" a movie that way, just to see what it's like.

exlurker 2y ago
Now that you mention it, I remember reading through the entire first script of of Alien from 1976[1], which was really cool. I now feel an urge to re-experience that. [1] http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_early.html http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_early.html
dxbydt 2y ago
> So you can read the movie like a comic book? people also enjoy the opposite experience. when my kid was 4-5, we watched these youtube videos which were just books. the camera hovered over a page of nursery rhymes, and the narrator would read them out loud. its fairly popular among immigrant parents who don’t speak good English but whose kids go to school in the us/uk etc. I wouldn’t know the meaning or how to pronounce several phrases in say Little Jack Horner sat in a corner etc. - so better to watch the book than read it. I also follow a journalist on twitter who makes these videos of the new york times. So instead of subscribing to the newspaper and reading it, I am watching the newspaper being read by this journalist, who then adds some color to the topic as well, so I know what to think about this topic.
- djhn 2y ago
  Do you have a link or some searchable name for the journalist? I’ve been intrigued by this genre for a while now.
  - dxbydt 2y ago
    The hashtag is #NYTReadalong. https://x.com/hashtag/NYTReadalong?src=hashtag_click https://x.com/hashtag/NYTReadalong?src=hashtag_click
jfengel 2y ago
It was briefly a thing in the 1970s. They called it a "fotonovel", and similar names: https://www.allaboutthewaltons.com/merchandising/fotonovel.php https://www.allaboutthewaltons.com/merchandising/fotonovel.p... The Star Trek ones were particularly popular.
- crazygringo 2y ago
  That's wild! Thanks so much for sharing.