The Terror
1963 · Horror · Mystery
Lieutenant André Duvalier, a French officer separated from his regiment, meets a young woman named Helene in the forest and, looking for her, finds his way to the castle of Baron von Leppe, who insists that the only people living there are himself and his servant Stefan. Produced and directed by…
This film has an audio description track, written and recorded here, so a blind or low-vision viewer can follow it by ear. There is nothing to switch on — the description is in the film’s own sound, so pressing play is the whole of it.
Free to watch via internet-archive.
Is The Terror public domain? The rights evidence — the copyright registration, the renewal search and the sources we checked, written out in full so you can check them too.
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This is our restoration, with the audio description track mixed in. There is nothing to switch on: press play and the description is in the sound. It is free, there is no account, and nothing is counted.
The same film without description, if you would rather have the original sound alone.
Every film here that carries audio description — what description is, who it is for, and how ours are made.
How this print was restored
This copy of The Terror was restored here, from a print that had been through a good deal before it reached us. The work finished on 2026-10-01. Every step is listed below, because a re-encode passed off as a restoration is worth nothing and the only way to tell them apart is to say what was done.
- 412 described cues across a 79 minute 22 second runtime, filling 32 minutes 36 seconds of gaps between dialogue -- 41.1 percent of the film -- at 158 words per minute.
- Figures measured from the shipped sidecar and the shipped master.
- The original soundtrack was repaired from the Archive copy: channels folded to the mono they carry, rumble filtered below 60 Hz, a comb of nine narrow notches every 750 Hz from 750 Hz to 6.75 kHz, the top end rolled off above 7 kHz, loudness matched in two passes.
- Described track flagged default and visual_impaired, with the original audio kept as a separate selectable stream.
The print we started from is here, so the before and after can be compared.
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