Amerykańskie filmy migowe – pierwsze filmy w języku migowym
American Sign Language Films – The First of its Kind

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the unique collection of first films showing and using sign language, made in the years 1910-1921 by the American National Association of the Deaf (NAD). After a nationwide collection of funds in 1909 a NAD Film Fund was created and the Film Commission that governed it. The author of the article places the film collection in a broader context and focuses on four films, describing their impact on contemporary deaf people, constructing the convention of filming signed narration and its meaning for today’s researchers of the deaf culture. The context of making of the films, as well as their reception and distribution mechanisms are reconstructed based on archival research conducted in the archives of Gallaudet University (Washington, USA), where the films as well as related documents are deposited.

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