Far fieldsSouth America, Europe, Asialook green to U.S. moviemakers. But there are many fences to jump. One of the highest: the language barrier. Subtitles are only half an answer. Much of the potential audience is illiterate. Dubbing in a translator's voice for the actor's is not much better. The actor's lips say one thing, another comes out.
Last fortnight Manhattan's Eastern Sound Studios practically cleared the barrier with a new and amazingly good method of dubbing. Evidence: Spellbound in Spanish.
Principal innovations: 1) translations were cut as close to the English sound pattern as possible; 2) translating actors were made...
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