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Dubbing replaced voices for foreign releases

Actors re-voiced dialogue so films could play in other languages Rather than release a film with subtitles everywhere, studios recorded new dialogue in other languages, with local actors matching the lip movements on screen. The practice became standard in Italy, Germany, France and Spain and shaped those countries' voice acting professions. Subtitling remained common in smaller markets. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Actors re-voiced dialogue so films could play in other languages. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.