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<h2 id="milestones">Milestones</h2> <ul><li>Analog era: <ul><li><a href="/facts/Film/wM3b9Kk3">Film</a> - Sign-language media is born. The first sign-language film is created in 1902.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Video/F1AV8ben">Video</a> - Sign-language magazines on video are distributed.</li></ul></li> <li>Digital era: <ul><li><a href="/facts/Digital_video/xsn9omqG">Digital video</a> and <a href="/facts/Software/RP79lVSW">software</a> - Sign-language interfaces are created to browse content.</li> <li><a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web/wvnTrWFq">World Wide Web</a> - Information in sign language becomes available for everyone.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/Videophone/Ya9TMFQD">videophone</a> and <a href="/facts/Webcam/1vTYrHWw">webcam</a> - Sign-language telecommunication becomes possible.</li> <li>Mobile videotelephony - <a href="/facts/UMTS/lhy2RrMw">UMTS</a> provides support for sign-language telecommunications.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Vlogs/JhMmw28p">Vlogs</a> - Sign-language newssites start booming with the protest against <a href="/facts/Jane_Fernandes/E4lzynnG">Jane Fernandes</a>.</li> <li>Production of sign-language videos using computer-generated avatars instead of images of a real person.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li>Sign-language videos<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> in various form of signs are being produced using a real sign-language interpreters</li> <li>Sign language can be shown in <a href="/facts/Movie_theater/oSkG3tKp">movie theaters</a> via a <a href="/facts/Second_screen/CD4E2WnJ">second screen</a> mounted on the chair, playing a Sign Language Video track synchronized with the film.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li></ul></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://reflecting.signfuse.com/">Reflecting on Sign Language Media</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070312032851/http://reflecting.signfuse.com/">Archived</a> 2007-03-12 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.signfuse.com/">Signfuse Sign Language Media</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.joeybaer.com/">Joey Baer's ASL Vlog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.johnlubotsky.com/deafcinema/">Sign Language Film list</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.signlanguagemedia.com/">Sign Language Media in Film/TV</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170501165220/http://signlanguagemedia.com/">Archived</a> 2017-05-01 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.media-pi.com/">Média'pi! : press media</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"LibGuides: Deaf Films: Oldest Deaf Films". <a href="http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=120564&sid=1037883" target="_blank">http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=120564&sid=1037883</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Michael Kipp, Alexis Heloir, Quan Nguyen. Sign language avatars: Animation and comprehensibility. Volume 6895 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 113-126. Link to article by Kipp, Heloir, and Nguyen. <a href="/wiki/Lecture_Notes_in_Computer_Science" target="_blank">/wiki/Lecture_Notes_in_Computer_Science</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Sarah Ebling. 2013. Evaluating a Swiss German Sign Language Avatar among the Deaf Community. Link to access <a href="http://sltat.cs.depaul.edu/slides/Ebling.pdf" target="_blank">http://sltat.cs.depaul.edu/slides/Ebling.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Link to Spanish Sign Language videos done by software <a href="http://www.biblialselsc.org/" target="_blank">http://www.biblialselsc.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Online Video Library | JW.ORG Videos American Sign Language | American Sign Language (ASL)". www.jw.org. Retrieved 2024-12-29. <a href="https://www.jw.org/ase/library/videos/#ase/categories/VODStudio" target="_blank">https://www.jw.org/ase/library/videos/#ase/categories/VODStudio</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Deluxe Launches First Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) Localization Service Outside Brazil". Cision PR Newswire. Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. through Cision PR Newswire. 18 Sep 2017. Retrieved 14 Nov 2023. <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deluxe-launches-first-brazilian-sign-language-libras-localization-service-outside-brazil-300521137.html" target="_blank">https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/deluxe-launches-first-brazilian-sign-language-libras-localization-service-outside-brazil-300521137.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"Accessibility & The Audio Track File". Cinepedia. September 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2023. <a href="https://cinepedia.com/accessibility/accessibility-the-audio-track-file/" target="_blank">https://cinepedia.com/accessibility/accessibility-the-audio-track-file/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>