Gallaudet Video Presents It is Too Late.  First Deaf Featured Silent Film created by a deaf filmmaker, Ernest Marshall (1910-1999), and produced in 1937 by the Cinema Production of the Deaf. Ernest Marshall received many awards and honors for his deaf films. A Deaf cast with Ernest Marshall, Katharine O’Brien, Anna Klaus, Dorothy Havens, and Ben Ash. A film with a dramatic love story of a man’s indecision between two women with a twist.