The Brazilian dubbing was made for TV broadcasting, but Fox liked enough to release a dubbed version in VHS (midle 80's).

There is some "mistakes" in this dubbing, like R2 and Chewbacca's sound effects being missing sometimes.

Before you get to specifics, I think a list of different languages from VHS, TV, LD, DVD, GOUT, HDTV, Blu Ray - OT and SE would be a good start.

It would also be quite a list........

russs15 said:

Before you get to specifics, I think a list of different languages from VHS, TV, LD, DVD, GOUT, HDTV, Blu Ray - OT and SE would be a good start.

It would also be quite a list........

i guess the CED's were only in english.

why did you list GOUT? that's not a format.

later

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I was thinking more along the lines of different sources and not formats as such.

DVD SE and GOUT are different sources...

I had a much smaller topic idea of simply listing all the different country audio varieties of the GOUT along with whatever subtitles they contain. This is a follow on from my "GOUT synced" and "PAL GOUT synced" topic

By default, I expect that this research would also tell me what audio and subtitles the 2004 SE contains.

I have a few details that I will dig out and post here soon........

These are the releases I have found so far of the GOUT 2 disc set only.

US Widescreen and Fullscreen

UK

Australia

Sweden

France

Germany

Japan

Italy

Are there any more that I have missed so far?? Portugal, Brazil, South America, Canada etc???? Links or catalogue numbers would be appreciated to help me track down those I have missed.

Once I have all the info I need, I will compile it together with full details (inc ASIN and EAN numbers) of the releases and what I can prove to be the various audio and subtitles on each disc. As helpful as Amazon listings are, they do not split the audio and subtitles per disc and just have a general listing so I need other sources as well.

EDIT: A quick search of the Blu Ray releases brings up 11 different country audio's and 26 different country subtitles. Pretty impressive

***TRIPLE POST ALERT***

Update on my investigations so far. I have found proof of the following GOUT releases.

NTSC - US (Wide and Full), Canada (Wide and Full) and Japan

PAL - UK, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and Australia

in turn, these releases contain the following

NTSC Audio - English, French, Spanish and Japanese

NTSC Subtitles - English and Japanese

PAL Audio - English, French, Spanish, German and Italian

PAL Subtitles - English, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, English (hard of hearing) and German (hard of hearing)

Still looking for others if anyone can help........

There is a Brazilian GOUT release with official Brazilian Portuguese subs, no Portuguese audio.

Do you have any links to information or back cover scans that you can point me towards??

It is a shame that there is no audio.....

Thanks

CatBus said:

There is a Brazilian GOUT release with official Brazilian Portuguese subs, no Portuguese audio.

It's true. Later I can upload 300dpi scans of the DVD covers. The pre-SE dub is ripped from an old 80's VHS. This dubbing is pretty rare nowdays and the older fans seems to really like it.

russs15 said:

It is a shame that there is no audio.....

I look forward to seeing your scans.

I cannot believe how hard it it to track down information on these releases considering they are not even six years old!!

Are there any more GOUT versions for me to log??

As well as a Brazilian version, there are more.....

Brazilian

Uma Nova Esperança

O Império Contra-Ataca

O Retorno de Jedi

Spanish

Una Nueva Esperanza

El Imperio Contraataca

El Retorno del Jedi

Turkish

Yeni Bir Umut EAN 8697333064933

?mparator EAN 8697333064940

Jedi'in Dönü?ü EAN 8697333064957

The content of the Brazilian release will be confirmed should scans be posted and the Spanish release looks to be the same as the German release.

However, I am struggling to see what audio and subtitles are on Disc 1 and 2 of the Turkish release. I have added the barcode number in the hope that someone has more luck than me finding info.....

pittrek said:

Oh my God, THANKS A LOT for the Czech dubs :-) It brings back some really nice memories :-)

 

Just a little explanation what "rychlodabing" is - it was pretty common in the late 80's / early 90's that they used the original audio (usually mono downconverted from stereo), and overlaid over it were new dialogues in Czech. Usually one man was speaking for all male characters, and one woman was speaking for all female characters. Usually the czech "actors" didn't ACT, but only read the text from the paper, without any emotion. That was quite funny in porn movies especially :-)

BTW I have the Ewok movie in this type of dubbing.

And Ond?ej Neff is a Czech sci-fi writer and translator of all Star Wars novels

Not too different from what they often do in Poland.

I always wanted those old Neff dubs, since they'd be quite an interesting curiosity. I'm too young to have seen the films this way but from what I understand, these translations were made during the communism (in the 80s) and certainly weren't official; mr. Neff was just doing these translations secretly from home and he didn't have the tech to make subtitles, so he just recorded the translation like you see it in the video and then bootleg VHS and Betamax were spread among people; for quite a while during communism, it was the only way for non-english-speaking Czechoslovaks to watch most American films. Star Wars didn't come out on VHS here until 1992 (a year after it came to cinemas here), so I expect that what you see in that video is someone having one of those something like 5th generation copy bootlegs from the 80s and   to get better picture quality than the copy they had, they re-recorded the film from German Sat1 (many people receive German TV stations here in West Bohemia) and added the narration (you can hear it's quite out of sync). Not that many people would have seen those dubs before the 90s either, because I only know one or two families who had a VCR before the 90s :-)

As to the other Czech video, that is the very same 1992 VHS Czech dub that is on my Despecialized Edition, just like this video I uploaded ages ago.