Just a little more info and some thaughts:
I contacted narrative television Network - and got this response:
Allan:
We have only done one Star Wars film. We did the 25th anniversary edition of the original.... The film were done for Turner Broadcasting, but we do not have the rights to distribute it. Hopefully at some point in the
future it will be available for DVD release.
Thank you,
Jim Stovall
Well, it seems that alot of narative networks did star wars films, apart from wgbh. I actually seem to have mixed narrative tv with NCI - national Capturing institude, which is another network, that indeed made audio description for two of the installments:
http://www.ncicap.org
These descriptions were done by joel snyder, and one of the films he did describe was "The empire strikes back".
Unfortunatlly though, these descriptions were also made for tv, and it does not seem as they're avaleble to purchase officially on video.
However, I've sendt an e-mail to the institute anyway, in the hope that they can help out in some form, as it really would be great if some kind of arangement could be made, so I could have a listen to the descriptive soundtraks from the films they've done.
I do not know if anything like this would be possible, but maybe I could purchase a coppy directly from NCI. This coppy I then only wanted to purchase for private listening plasure in my own home and for my own private use. Of course I would be prepared to clear any rights for this purchase, and I'd also be prepared to pay what ever such a special purchased coppy would cost.
Well, I dont know if anything like this is possible in the states at all, but I do know that this kind of arangement can be made in some countries. For instance, here in Denmark we actually can buy broadcasts directly through the broadcaster - broadcasts which are not avaleble on vhs or dvd normally. when a private endividual want to buy such broadcasts, he of cource has to pay alot more for it, and any rights which the broadcaster does not have, have to be cleared before a special coppy for private use can be purchased.
Well, just some thaughts
Kind regards from Allan