>Does anyone know when the practice of dubbing foreign films started? I've >had a hard time tracking information down, and am writing on the subject. >Everyone has the sense that it's a postwar phenomenon.... Foreign films from the POV of whom? Norway never started dubbing, but began subtitling in September 1929, roughly the same time as most other small European countries; and about the same time France, Germany and Italy started dubbing. But my hunch is that you're asking about the US. In which case I have no clue (except that it seems reasonable that it's a postwar thing). Arnt ;-) ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html