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> but audiences everywhere wanted to see, and hear, the real Laurel and Hardy. This was probably due to the fact that until some time earlier people had not ac
by riffraff 6y ago
> but audiences everywhere wanted to see, and hear, the real Laurel and Hardy.
This was probably due to the fact that until some time earlier people had not actually ever heard _anyone_ speaking, these were amongst the first movies which had audio, they just had not thought of dubbing.
But they started applying normal dubbing soon after: according to wikipedia, the "self-dubbed" movies were produced between 1929 and 1931 but then stopped.
A fun side effect of this is that the new dubbers kept the odd english accent! So if you get a copy of later movies where Hardy is dubbed by Alberto Sordi (one of the greatest actors of italian cinema) you can hear him make this funny fake accent, and mispronouncing words (e.g. very famously "stupìdo" rather than "stùpido").
- a_bonobo 6y agoIn the 70s Monty Python picked up this tradition by shooting two episodes of 'Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus' for German TV. The first special was written in English, then translated to German, and all Python members learned their German lines by heart. They didn't have time for the second special, so that one was dubbed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Fliegender_Zirkus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python%27s_Fliegender_Zi... They're on YouTube with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHs45_EQvO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHs45_EQvO0
- moomin 6y agoPeter Gabriel did this with "Melt": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49mdn20QsbM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49mdn20QsbM Yes, you really can hear the whole album in German.
- gattilorenz 6y agoIt goes the other way with Kraftwerk, that released every single album both in German and English, except for Tour de France which is appropriately available in German or French
- Erwin 6y agoThe 1999 soundtrack for Tarzan by Phil Collins was also recorded by Collins himself in English, Italian, German, Spanish and French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03Wcfx8dPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m03Wcfx8dPE For a more extreme example, Pocahontas' "Colors of the Window" in 33 languages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKD8tIMlV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLKD8tIMlV8