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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Um, we are not performers, yet in order for an audience that is deaf to enjoy and cry and...

Um, we are not performers, yet in order for an audience that is deaf to enjoy and cry and laugh with everybody else in the theater, they need to understand what's happening on stage, and they need to understand the emotional life of the actors and the characters, the choices that actors are making, and the, um

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Um, we are not performers,
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yet in order for an audience that is deaf
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to enjoy and cry and laugh
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with everybody else in the theater,
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they need to understand what's happening on stage,
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and they need to understand the emotional life
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of the actors and the characters,
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the choices that actors are making,
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and the, um...
Duration
34 seconds
Views
16
Timestamp in Movie
01:49:34
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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Movie Summary

A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
I do think about the way a show is directed and staged. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
I do think about the way a show is directed and staged.
All those pieces come together - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:13
All those pieces come together
I'm looking at what the intent of the person is - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
I'm looking at what the intent of the person is
I'm trying to pull out and parse out all of that - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:16
I'm trying to pull out and parse out all of that
Sign language is more than just how your hands move. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
Sign language is more than just how your hands move.
It's this whole three-dimensional space - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:06
It's this whole three-dimensional space
That's where grammar will show up a lot of times - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
That's where grammar will show up a lot of times
So I think that we try to explore that with every play. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
So I think that we try to explore that with every play.
One thing that the library has - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:15
One thing that the library has
And, um, the big difference is there's a section that, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:13
And, um, the big difference is there's a section that,
Um, we were wondering just, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:16
Um, we were wondering just,
Um, one, sort of angry and defiant - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
Um, one, sort of angry and defiant
So is any... are either of you - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
So is any... are either of you
Why don't you try angry, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
Why don't you try angry,
Right, so you can stand right there, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Right, so you can stand right there,
So hopefully this will show you - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
So hopefully this will show you
So very angry. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
So very angry.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:16
"We hold these truths to be self-evident,
"And that to secure these rights, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
"And that to secure these rights,
Pleading, you may have gotten the easier one. - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:05
Pleading, you may have gotten the easier one.