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Did you know... that the first film entirely in American Sign Language was a 1975 vampire movie called Deafula?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:12, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the first film entirely in American Sign Language was a 1975 vampire movie called Deafula? Source: "Deafula, the first full-length ASL feature film..." (Deaf Life Magazine, 1996, pg.196)

Reviewed: This is my first time participating in DYK, but I chose to review A Wonderful Life (1951 film)

5x expanded by Secundus Zephyrus (talk). Self-nominated at 02:40, 10 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Interesting. Five-fold expansion. Good to go. KAVEBEAR (talk) 07:52, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]