AP Television Rome, Italy - June 21, 2011 1. Mid pan from tourist taking photo to booklet on new iPod guide 2. Mid Ulrike Rhein and two sons getting iPod guide 3. Close of iPod guide 4. Close of Jakob Rhein putting on headset 5. Wide pan down altar to young man listening to iPod guide 6. Mid of young german man listening to iPod guide while walking in front of statue 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ulrike Rhein, tourist from Bavaria, vox pop: "I think it is very comfortable and quite intuitive to use." 8. Close of iPod guide 9. SOUNDBITE: (German) Jakob Rhein, tourist from Bavaria, vox pop: "I think it is very cool, it is in an iPod." 10. Wide of interior of St. John the Lateran Basilica 11. Medium of Nelli Bojorquez and Ricardo Amado from Mexico city listening to ipod 12. Close of Nelli Bojorquez listening and looking at statue 13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Nelli Bojorquez, tourist from Mexico City, vox pop: "I like it a lot because it is the latest technology and it explains everything very well." 14. Wide group of tourists in front of side altar with gold columns pan up to columns 15. Close of back of girl's head as she takes picture of gold columns 16. Mid of family in Basilica 17. Close of baby pan to iPod guide in hand of grandmother 18. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Berta Evangelista, tourist from Italy, vox pop: "It is not difficult, it is enough to be a little bit comfortable with a touch screen telephone, so you can use it well." 19. Wide of side altar and tourists 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rosa Maria Mancini, Rome Pilgrims Tourist Agency "Opera Pellegrini Romana (Rome Pilgrims tourist agency) has created a multi-media audio guide, basically we have taken an iPod and filled it with plenty of content, with history, with everything that you need to know about the Basilica, so that basically you can come in here and discover what St. John the Lateran is all about. You can discover it piece by piece." 21. Mid of statues on top of Basilica St. John the Lateran 22. Wide tilt down of exterior St. John the Lateran LEAD IN: The Vatican is giving pilgrims and tourists iPods to serve as interactive, electronic tour guides. It is hoped the state-of-the-art devices will reduce noise in the holy sites and also further enlighten tourists. STORYLINE: Tourists throng the beautiful Basilica of St John the Lateran, the oldest in the Vatican. But there's a thoroughly modern twist to this historic site. Visitors and pilgrims are being offered iPods to guide them through the building. The Vatican has created an app especially designed to make accessing the Basilica's art, architecture and history even easier. Customised versions of Apple's famous touch screen device serves as a virtual tour guide, this helps to reduce the noise in the holy sites from multi-lingual tour guides chattering away. The pilot iPod scheme was unveiled on Tuesday, June 21 and tourists from across the world got a chance to trial the devices. Ulrike Rhein was visiting from Bavaria in Germany with her two sons and took the opportunity to test the iPod tour. She says: "I think it is very comfortable and quite intuitive to use." Her son Jakob, who might have found a conventional tour rather staid, was equally impressed. Jakob adds: "I think it is very cool, it is in an iPod." Nelli Bojorquez, who had made the pilgrimage all the way from Mexico City, enjoyed using the iPod. She says: "I like it a lot because it is the latest technology and it explains everything very well." And even grandmothers got the knack of it. Berta Evangelista was visiting the Basilica with her daughter and granddaughter and reckons anybody who has ever used a touchscreen mobile phone can easily pick it up. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/81863d74117ca0cfff69f91f0dba8e27 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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