Samples of Audio Description

This page contains samples of audio description, both audio and text.  Contributions from ADP members are encouraged.  Last updated Aug 2020.

• Clip from "Color of Paradise" (video with AD including captioning of the describer's words)
  -- or listen to the audio only, first without description, then with description
• Clip From "The Lion King" (great example by the voicer of emotion fitting the description)
• Clip from "The Last Witch Hunter" (audio only)
• “Audio Description with Ray Samuelson” Pushing Limits (opens with 2 minute example of AD over movie with no spoken words) Aug '20
• Subaru Commercial (2018)
• Nosferatu, a 1922 silent horror film with audio description provided in part by the ADP
• Three description samples in an article
• Open Audio Description and Open Captioning Sample (note pauses to insert description)
• Audio Description of the Fortnite Video Game (VantaBirb)
• "Audio Descriptions" (Podcast from Twenty Thousand Hertz)
• Large Collection of Film Description Samples from the UK
• Audio Description of Sculptures
• Audio Description of a Logo
• Audio Description of a Museum Painting
• Documentary Clip With and Without Audio Description (Kartemquin Films)
• Bringing Light to the Dark: Audio description (audio describer Pauline Brandt interviewed by Creative Choices)
• The Miracle Worker (excerpt of streaming video -- you can also order this DVD here!)
• Hamlet (from "Shakespeare: The Animated Tales" - Accessible Preview)
• Police Response to People with Disabilities (from the Department of Justice; note that a few of the links don't actually have description, even though they say they do)
• The Making of Shrek III (a news story about the description and its impact)
• Creating Accessible iTunes U Content (by WGBH Media Access)
• Videos for Students:  Evolving Ideas (from WGBH - launch a video, then click on the Descriptive Video Service link)
• Der talentierte Herr Ripley (Deutsche:  The Talented Mr. Ripley; click the icon in the middle of the page for a huge MP3 file of description from the beginning of the film in German)
• "Verbal Description" of Museum Pieces (link to Art Beyond Sight's samples)