Thanks Geoff for watching.  You're a prince!   What you suggest is very doable.  All that's needed is a talented art department to create the images.  I toyed with the idea of asking an A.I. image generator to create images of the characters.  That possibility is still out there.  Lip syncing the characters is also very possible.   But I liked the idea of reading the titles, to clearly get the story points.  Sometimes singers can't be understood -- and to me every word is important.  I wouldn't want to give up on the titles.  But maybe I'll mess around a bit when I recover from this effort. 

Paul

I’m sorry to come to this discussion so late, but I didn’t want to watch only five or ten minutes of the video before commenting, and until now various distractions got in the way of my watching more than that at one go. I’ve now watched the entire show, half last night and half this morning.

What an astounding piece of work, Paul! I’ve never read the book and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a movie version from beginning to end, so although I’d previously encountered the names of the principal characters I’d only been vaguely familiar with a few bits of the plot. That shortcoming has now been corrected in the space of a hugely enjoyable couple of half hours.

There are inevitably the odd few typos (e.g. “ring her neck” at 41:28 and “that villian Willoughby” at 53:42) and the name Ferrars is misspelled in three different ways (Ferras, Ferris, and Farras) but that can easily, if somewhat tediously, be fixed by going through the whole thing with the proverbial fine-toothed comb.

GB -- I struggled with retaining the titles or trying something more interesting.  Conclusion was to stick with the titles.  Jane Austen is actually right, her original books required that you "read" them -- and use your imagination to visualize the story.  It's kind of like a radio show?  Thanks for your comments.