In Chapter three of Signing the Body Poetic we learned about the printing press and how film technology affected deaf literature and ASL. Gorge W. Veditz was a big influence on preserving sign language. He came up with the idea that film will help preserve the language, “there is but one known means of passing on the language: through the use of moving picture films” (pg.51). With out films there would be no way language would be to be preserved. Sign Language could not be thought from writing or books it was thought by “sign of hand”, which made it hard to preserve all the stories and poems. When film was introduced to ASL they were able to preserve stories in their original form. They were able to see the same story over and over again. Also,
