Through Deaf Eyes

Through Deaf Eyes explores almost 200 years of Deaf life in America and presents a broad range of perspectives on what it means to be deaf. The film is propelled by the stories of people, both eminent and ordinary, and sheds light on events that have shaped Deaf lives.
The companion book is available at gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/T...
Content Warning
Through Deaf Eyes references the 1927 film, The Jazz Singer, because it was the first movie to incorporate synchronized music and speech, and its release heralded the end of the silent film era. For deaf audiences, the film was significant because it represented the end of access to Hollywood movies. Through Deaf Eyes contains a clip from The Jazz Singer that features an actor in blackface. The timestamp in which this clip appears is 32:57-33:06.
The use of blackface was racist and offensive in 1927, and it is racist and offensive now. Gallaudet University Press does not condone the use of blackface or any other acts of anti-Black behavior.

[@sashaboileau4240]

"I'm rich and deaf- thank you very much!" I LOVE THAT!

[@elliefowell3481]

Documentary about Deaf history.....doesn't have closed captions.

[@rickvillanueva7345]

It does now 😂😂😂

[@rainforme1850]

Ironic

[@GallaudetUniversityPress]

Thank you for pointing out that this version does not contain captions, and please accept our apology for the error. A captioned version can be found here: www.gallaudet.edu/history-through-deaf-eyes/through-deaf-eyes-documentary We will work to add the captions to this version as well.

[@dannuman6510]

@@rickvillanueva7345 auto generated lmao

[@kirstycollins4850]

Excellent movie. I used KZbin live captions OK. I don't understand why other social media has no live captions? We need a disability (ability) revolution here in Australia. I have a cochlear and have been deaf for 6 years. It is exhausting fitting in and trying to hear things in social situations. I don't think it's fair to not teach and provide sign language to cochlear, and non-cochlear, wearing deaf people. Why would you deny them such a fantastic tool, in the toolbox, of surviving and living in a hearing world? If you grow up with cochlear implants you may not realise how much harder you have to work each day to communicate. The burden is completely on you.

[@katherinegrice1801]

To C. J. Jones..... That last comment to your question, "What's wrong with being Deaf?". Kudos to you. Very comedic, very truthful. In truth, the only difference between the Deaf and Hearing World is Communication.

[@prometheus5997]

My high school class had to watch this for homework, I found it very interesting even if the history is a little disheartening - what history isn’t?. I look forward to learning and improving in ASL

[@KoriEmerson]

I remember when this was on the first time . My Deaf friends and I all got together and watched this. It was fantastic.

[@caitlankelly4367]

I heard Moshe Kasher talking about deaf history on the JRE, I came here to learn more. After watching this, I’m even more fascinated and impressed by deaf culture. In a time when victimhood is a currency, it’s refreshing to encounter a group of people who don’t fall for that trap. The Gallaudet students that occupied the campus, are straight up national treasures. I personally benefitted from their tenacity as I needed ADA accommodation in college.

[@theresamohr1635]

I'm so glad I watched this. I am a hearing person but knowing some ASL. It makes it really nice to be able to communicate with someone other then a hearing person. I honestly wish there were more place to talk with hard of hearing and deaf people around here.

[@alanolson6913]

I’m hard of hearing and wear dual hearing aids and I sign. My wife and kids don’t sign because I can speak. There’s no one around close by to sign with. Life goes on.

[@theresamohr1635]

@@alanolson6913 I would practice my signing with you if you. We're local.

[@alanolson6913]

@@theresamohr1635 Well, thank you. I’m way north on the US side of the US-Canada border near British Columbia.

[@theresamohr1635]

@@alanolson6913 well if you ever see yourself and the family coming to the Philadelphia area please let me know.

[@Pirates_Of_The_Sea_405]

There is Deaf Events that you can go like deafnation and deafopia those place that you can attend to and then sign up for free admission and then you can go one of there events Plus I believe there are more events

[@LowellBDennyIII]

The opening was hysterical. I loved it!! Great documentary

[@christinemeleg4535]

Ironically it is now seen as a very effective way for young children to communicate with their parents, speech takes a long time to emerge in a child, even if the child is hearing. I always tell people I am normal, I just speak a different dialect of English.

[@frostbittenarts]

Much of this documentary still holds today. The history is like most with struggles and triumphs, but it's a little disheartening to see that we haven't evolved that much since. So much misinformation out there with many people finding it easier to be cruel than kind. I wish that I had a magic wand that would make people understand that our differences are what make us so interesting!!!!! Imagine how boring it would be if we were all the same? I think ASL (and other sign languages) are elegant, beautiful, expressive, and it's taught me a lot as an autistic person.

[@mayjoritybhrismayjoritybhr8724]

Im literally here to answer mt ASL class questions

[@WhoKnowsLeya]

Same, got the answers???

[@pennywise4210]

I have to write a reflection paper 😭

[@catsareniceandcute4665]

omg same 😭😭 a response paper

[@toffeestrange7706]

That protest is so amazing we need more of that!!

[@viniciusleonelPoliglota]

Wow! Very interesting ! I loved 😍 Greetings from brazilian deaf community 😍

[@cookiestout8985]

I absolutely loved this!!!

[@davidhensley76]

At 22:18 the kids aren't just waving sticks. They're conducting a 3/4 pattern to teach rhythm.

[@Iamalesbianlmao]

Watched this for my asl 1 class, very interesting

[@terrysemple8260]

Loved this!

[@jaimemelo7511]

Loved it! 🙂🙌🏼

[@cccynova]

When I was a child, I had a Sunday School teacher with a deaf daughter, and our teacher taught us a little sign language. Because of this, I was able to communicate with a group of deaf women I met while camping with my family as a teenager. I was singing to myself in the camp bathroom, and these ladies thought I might be talking to them, so they got my attention and asked me what I was saying. I could tell, of course, that they were deaf, so I just smiled and said, "I was just signing!" while signing the word "sing" or "music". They smiled and nodded, obviously surprised and delighted that I knew an appropriate sign to communicate with them, and that I didn't act awkward at all. I didn't miss a beat, didn't treat them any differently from anyone else.

[@ggrother539]

Interesting, heartbreaking, inspiring documentary. I have found plenty of fun and very helpful ASL learning videos on youtube. I look forward to getting out in the world, with new skills and a better ability to connect with the deaf community. Thanks, everyone!

[@francespicciallo9690]

Thoroughly enjoyed that!!! I’m trying to learn ASL at 62!! Oh how I wish I was exposed to ASL when I was young!!!

[@itzaramirez4980]

Dios mío lo mismo digo me siento la peor persona del mundo tengo 45 años y voy a empezar

[@pumpkinlord8617]

I have to watch this for school I just want the two years of language so I can have the option to go to college

[@randomcheeseeater9831]

Really disappointing that there is no closed captions on this video ABOUT deaf history, especially by a channel related to Gaullaudet. A dead person literally cannot watch this. :/

[@tanyahotingmrazek4812]

Correct a DEAD person can not watch this. However there is captioning and a Deaf person would be able to turn that on and watch this.

[@jordanproffitt805]

@@tanyahotingmrazek4812 Auto-generated captioning. aka the thing that 99% of the time is wrong.

[@himbo_kai]

I know it's been a while, but there is a second version of this video with proper captions

[@christinemeleg4535]

@@jordanproffitt805 That depends on the video you are watching, this one with auto-generated is close.

[@akashasteele8943]

Wouldn't the deaf person be just reading the hand signs? So the captions would only be useful for the history section of it which they should already know considering it's their history.

[@DN-fs2kb]

I was born premature at 24 weeks and was tested for hearing loss. During the test, I didn’t respond. Eventually i ended up getting fluid drained from my ear drum which fixed it. Sometimes i wonder what would have happened if was born deaf. when i was a baby, my parents used a bit of sign language just for visual learning stuff. My parents say that the first time my sister tried ice cream she used the sign “more! More!” This video helped a lot. Ive had deaf people in my classes and presenters have come in to inform us of what hearings aids are like in elementary school. Ive also watched shows with deaf characters that stuck with me too. Im a hearing person but i have a lot of respect for the deaf community and am considering learning ASL.

[@mulugetakassaw1408]

Very astonishing. Thank you.

[@rainforme1850]

This helps me understand a little more

[@MrRcboi92336]

Love that !!!! 😊❤❤❤

[@keithmiller252]

Thank ya deaf me. Parents hearing foster parents hearing ❤️ just married hearing laddy 12/2 23 she taking up ASL CLASSES ..NICE FRIEND IN OHIO 🤟🤟🤟 KEITH M.. 😊

[@mademsoisellerhapsody]

brilliant

[@BIZZYBRON]

Looks like I'm Watching this for class

[@grahamlloyd2838]

This is a wonderful vidoe! Thanks for posting. (I'm hard of hearing so this video makes me feel less isolated.)

[@marieazrak1951]

By the way, Marley Martin, I am a huge fan of yours from the TV show switched at birth I watch switched at birth in my early 20s at my mom‘s house and I learned more sign language I’m not fluent I can’t have a conversation but I know little bits and pieces of sign language. I can’t put a full sentence together, but I love learning about sign language.

[@thelthrythquezada8397]

Hey, Mark Morales. I know OF him from the DVD my text book came with (2019). I will never forget his face.

[@dallanavelasco9109]

Very well done, thank you ☺️

[@texabara]

I am hearing person. But I would like to learn ASL. Creo que el lenguaje de señas, como idioma, debe enseñarse en la escuela regular. I think sign language, as a language itself, must be taught on regular schools

[@cochiefemeralds3616]

I agree as well

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

Koko likes this vieo! I won't assume every person can hear me from now on. Ur a "Talkie" 😂❤

[@fennelily9955]

what's the song in the short about cochlear implants??

[@BLACKHALEE36]

The captioning is very horrible..

[@Agustina-sj9tz]

As a recomendation for future videos, it would be great if you could just add some subs to the video. My mother language is Spanish (I'm argentinian). I'm not deaf but I have hearing loss. I don't know anytging about american sign language and it's difficult to me to understand english audio sometimes (because of my hearing loss). But I can read english text and get it very well.

[@himbo_kai]

There's another version of this video on this youtube page that has proper closed captions. I don't know about other videos on this channel, but I hope it can help you

[@gilleslahire6760]

Lip reading in German is much, much, much easier as lip reading in English...

[@kimberlymiller2895]

You must not know German very well, then. It is an extremely gutteral language, ie is NOT on the lips, but in the throat. I have taken 5 years of German in school. I am oral Deaf, rely 100% on lip reading, and never could ever get the lip reading down with German, although I could read a novel in the language.

[@Evan-rb5fm]

It's a shame that a cc maker didn't check on spelling for our hero, Laurent Clerc. Isn't that belittlement? He wasn't even found in our dictionaries. The lesser hero, Thomas, has been found in dictionaries. If I have a son, I could name him Laurent, not Thomas.

[@KoriEmerson]

Bell was HORRID. He did horrible experiments on deaf children.

[@kimberlymiller2895]

Under the guise of "caring". Yup. And his practices continue today.

[@cochiefemeralds3616]

I am a full-time Deaf Communication Studies college student. I’m trying to get my certificate of proficiency in American Sign Language and I’m still practicing every day, even while I’m on the job. I am disgusted by Alexander Graham Bell now after learning what he did. I grew up with hearing about all the “good” he did like opening deaf schools and inventing the telephone. Now I’m mad

[@eren366]

Gosh I was about to add cc but ig they aren’t allowing anyone to add them for this video? As in I would be willing to go through the video and transcribe what’s said.

[@kaylazx]

KZbin removed the option for viewers/community to add captions a while back. Not sure why, and it seems to have really reduced the number of captioned videos available :/

[@lilybug1397]

there is another video, some channel, same video, with closed captions.

[@tristinwest4293]

How in the fuck does this not come with subtitles. KZbin YOUR ALGORITHIMS FUCKING BLOW

[@Iamcalledmattt]

There is a closed captions button, my friend...

[@christinemeleg4535]

If you wish to be understood become more mature and intelligent. Filthy language indicates a deep seated insecurity and lack of maturity. In our home ASL is our language, we read the autotranslated Close Captioning, it was fine. Stop whining!

[@Kaeros77]

@@christinemeleg4535 Correcting a strangers way of talking shows insecurity, you needing to make yourself seem bettert than them. Autotranslated closed captioning gets words wrong most of the time. Wanting to have proper captioning should not be looked down on. Don't settle for less.

[@lilybug1397]

there is another video on the same channel with subtitles

[@thelthrythquezada8397]

oooOoo that was too cute. "Is she the only hearing girl in the world?"

[@collinpribula3270]

My favorite part of this video 22:16-22:36,51:48-52:20.

[@marieazrak1951]

Sometimes I wish I was born deaf So this way I could to know if people want to be rude to me or believe me, I would have to hear it

[@marieazrak1951]

Did you know when my mom went to college? She had a roommate and her roommate was deaf and blind I think that’s what my mom told me I know a Little sign language but I don’t know enough to have a conversation.

[@lauramcbride1588]

Captions/subtitles needed

[@lunalasolgalion3549]

Parte 2 this year 2023

[@scarlett-iy8yh]

drop discussion question answers

[@ariannagonzales9805]

lmaooo deadass

[@LizzieCATs38]

With the mom not telling her son that he was going to live there. The mother that choosed to not tell her confused child that he was going to live there was very F-ing selfish for her to do that to a child. So basically her feelings were more important then the deaf confused child.

[@Mehki227]

Well my Deaf husband is doing to have trouble with this since there's no open captions😳 I'll try showing it to him and swe what he says.

[@nkeshpatel4296]

Anyone know the song at 1:40:08

[@planetxtraa]

im trying to find it

[@nkeshpatel4296]

@@planetxtraaI’m still looking 😢

[@trevorzealley729]

ASL with different accents depending on your learning location and community .

[@chiefdouble6891]

14:04

[@tnnt1263]

1:02:07

[@DonPenjaminDaGreat]

36:30 FOOTBALL

[@Kaeros77]

It would be nice if they added a content warning to the attempted suicide at the one hour mark. Though it was just a dream, it can still be very triggering.

[@devilakmasingh5540]

I told these people you can live a decent life alone, this dude is like a millionaire, up until the day he died.

[@dannuman6510]

In an effort to be just like the hearing, the deaf also discriminated, in the past

[@rozsheehy6146]

DUH!!! 😂

[@RabiesTheBeagle]

Every person working for the government is deaf and listen to the common man 0 💯

[@juan1256roblox]

Where is a cued speech?

[@fzxfzxfzx]

aye

[@huddyslaughter3468]

aye

[@intricatefn]

aye

[@feelingsintheabyss470]

Aye

[@rileybilbrey2801]

Aye

[@GrandmasArmpit]

aye

[@sharifecooper4701]

Lmao

[@zilverkid3542]

No

[@Yahirfps]

🖖🖖🖖🖖 wallaeeeeee

[@LaurenMiddleton28]

Ive been to a deaf community and was shocked to see the amount of violence they inflicted on each other. Crazy violent! Woman punching men... Men punching woman and men attacking other men. So brutal!

[@Bensnsnajebe]

*JESUS CHRIST LOVES YOU AND CARES FOR YOU HAVE A GOOD DAY EVERYONE*

[@JoanneHari]

👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👋🏾👎🏾

[@JMoney711]

This is stupid * signs * this is stupid

[@samgold9151]

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