Anna Christie (1930) · dubbed by MovieCineLab
You can switch language while the clip plays: it picks up from the same point. «Original» is the film's English audio.
The film
Anna Christie is a 1930 film: Anna comes back to her father, an old sailor she hasn't seen since she was a child, and in the waterfront bar she meets Marthy.
The clip
These are ten minutes, from just after the first quarter of an hour. Anna walks into the bar, orders a drink and gets to know Marthy, who has been around the waterfront for years. They talk about the train journey, the farm Anna ran away from, and the father she believes is a janitor and who is actually the captain of a coal barge. Two women with very different voices, short lines, the sound of a film almost a hundred years old: a good test for dubbing.
The voices
- Anna Christopherson: 100 lines
- Marthy Owen: 52 lines
- Waiter: 8 lines
- Man: 1 line
Each character has their own voice, the same in every language: the dubbing recognises who is speaking and keeps the film's music and sound.
Subtitles and screenplay
The same clip produced subtitles in nine languages and the screenplay. Here's how it starts:
INT. BAR ROOM - NIGHT
A dim, smoky waterfront bar. Dark wood panels, round tables, hanging lamps. A blonde woman in a black cloche hat sits slumped at a table, propping her head on her hand beside a glass. An older woman, MARTHY OWEN, in a plaid shirt and dark hat, sits at another table. A lean WAITER in a white apron and bow tie moves about.
A MAN in a dark hat and bow tie rises from Marthy's table.
MAN
Oh, I, I, I, I do that, Marthy. I, I been coming right back.
MARTHY OWEN
Oh, well, that's that.
The man exits. Anna's chair scrapes back; she stands in a narrow doorway under a hanging lamp, hat low, her face tired. She walks into the bar past the waiter, who sets a napkin over his arm. Marthy rests her chin in her hand, watching. Anna sits at a table by the wall.
Anna Christie (1930) · dubbed by MovieCineLab
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