The Wasp Woman
1959 · 73 min
An aging cosmetics magnate injects herself with an experimental serum that restores her youthful appearance, but she learns beauty comes at a price.
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 Wasp Woman 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 Wasp Woman was restored here, from a print that had been through a good deal before it reached us. The work finished on 2026-09-12. 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.
- 308 described cues across a 61 minute 9 second runtime, filling 17 minutes 30 seconds of gaps between dialogue -- 28.6 percent of the film -- at 178 words per minute.
- Figures measured from the shipped sidecar and the shipped master.
- No picture restoration on this pass -- the video bitstream is the source, copied rather than re-encoded, so nothing here is a grade.
- Described track flagged default and visual_impaired, with the original audio kept as a separate selectable stream.
- No caption file yet: this title ships described but not captioned.
The print we started from is here, so the before and after can be compared.