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Transcription: [00:32:14]
{SPEAKER name="Audience Member"}
How does the captioning work?
{SILENCE}
[00:32:19]
{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Libby.
{SPEAKER name="Libby Hathaway/Sheila Grinnell (interpreter)"}
It takes a lot and hours and hours of work before they send it to the television stations.
[00:32:27]
The people working in the National Captioning Institute, would get twenty-four hours, would listen to it, and type, through a tape or something and they'll put it on the television, and then they'll mail it to the TV programming studio.

[00:32:47]
So but you have to type the words first, but on your television if you don't have this device, you won't see anything but we buy this device through Sears, you know ears, Sears, SS Sears.
[LAUGHTER]
[00:33:07]
We buy it, a lot of you are laughing. We buy it through Sears and it costs a pretty penny, how much it cost? Two hundred and fifty now? Two hundred and fifty dollars now,

[00:33:19]
and we connect it to our television sets turn it on and we've got the captioning. A few programs I think about sixty hours during the week, a week. Yes, Sixty hours a week are captioned for us.
[00:33:34]

{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
You know in the old days before folklorists realized or were willing to realize that folklore is always changing and developing as different groups and communities change their lifestyles,
[00:33:45]
they used to go out in the field to, to villages here and there and say 'oh dear folklore is disappearing because television has arrived or the radio has arrived and people don't have to entertain each other any more'.

[00:33:58]
Well of course that's not true we all still tell jokes, we all still tell stories.
[00:34:03]
The kinds of, of traditional folk entertainment in the deaf community, some of which you'll be seeing here at 12 o'clock, in our deaf theater performance with this group, uh, still go on in the deaf community. They don't spend all their time sitting in front of closed captions and watching Barney Miller.

[00:34:23]
And I wonder if you all would like to say a little something about the places where traditional stories and skits and so on are shown, in the deaf community. How deaf people enjoy social life and so on. Jan could you explain something