One of my favorite overlooked movies is director Bill Forsyth's
"Gregory's Girl" from 1981 and I was thrilled to see it released on
DVD. It has two audio channels. One has the original English audio
as released in America and the other has the English audio as originally
released in Scotland. I would go back and forth between the two and,
though both were in English with Scottish accents, the "Scottish English"
was a little tougher for my midwestern ears to sort out.
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From: "Trevor Trevor" <altst...@gmail.com>
To: <tvornottv@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Watching television in Central Asia
Re-voicing bugs the hell out of me.
There were a couple cute Christmas specials a few years back. Made in
the UK, with British voices. Then shown in the US with American
voices. Totally pointless. Being in Canada, I was able to see/hear
the British version on Canadian tv, and the US version on the American
network. Are there really that many Americans who have trouble with
British accents? If so, why do they keep watching Hugh Grant?
Recently there's been a cereal commercial (and I'm drawing a blank
right on which brand), but in Canada, the two people have British
accents, and when you watch the commercial on an American station,
they have generic North American accents. And unlike animated shows
or documentaries, these are actors on screen, and they still dub their
voices.
I'll admit, when I was younger, I sometimes had trouble with British
accents on shows like EastEnders, that my mom loves to watch. But I
would never think to dub their voices.
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Adam Bowie <adam.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Kevin,
That was quite interesting.
Euronews is a "multilingual" channel that comes out of France. The
version I get in the UK has an English language voiceover, but other
voiceovers are available in different European countries. You never
see any on-screen presenters, so it's a relatively cheap operation,
relying, I imagine, on agency feeds. The No Comment segment you were
watching doesn't come with a voiceover anywhere though!
The other thing to mention is that channels like National Geographic
and the various flavours of Discovery, design many of their programmes
to be revoiced locally. Discovery even re-voices programmes like
Mythbusters. So we get a Brit doing all the linking bits even though
there's really no need. Of course the same is true in reverse when
people like Sigourney Weaver or Oprah are employed to redub David
Attenbrough docs made by the BBC. All a bit pointless if you ask me.
And of course it's football and not soccer!
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