Video Rewrite (1997)

Overview

The very first deepfake film. Video Rewrite program, published in 1997 modified existing video footage of a person speaking to depict that person mouthing the words contained in a different audio track. It was the first system to fully automate this kind of facial reanimation, and it did so using machine learning techniques to make connections between the sounds produced by a video's subject and the shape of the subject's face.