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In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...
Surtitles came into widespread use in the 1990s to translate the meaning of the lyrics into the audience's language, or to transcribe lyrics that may be difficult to understand in the sung form in the opera-house auditoria. [5] The two possible types of presentation of surtitles are as projected text, or as the electronic libretto system.
Pages in category "English-language French films" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 977 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Google Translate is a web-based free-to-use translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [12] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation (SMT) service. [12]
The play was considered as "the most acclaimed new play of the last decade" [1] and won several awards and nominations in Paris, London and New York. [2] The play was translated into English by Christopher Hampton. [3] It was adapted to make the French film Floride (2015).
The Compagnie Jouvet of Paris staged the play at the first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947. Let Wives Tak Tent, a free translation into Scots by Robert Kemp, was first performed at the Gateway Theatre in Edinburgh in 1948. First produced on Broadway, performed in French, with Louis Jouvet at the ANTA Playhouse from 18 March to 3 April ...
La Ronde is a 1950 French anthology film directed by Max Ophüls and based on the French translation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play Reigen.Set in Vienna in 1900, it shows ten amorous encounters across the social spectrum, from a street prostitute to the nobility, with each scene involving one character from the previous episode.
Waiting for Godot is Beckett's reworking of his own original French-language play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts". [3] In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in 1998/99, it was voted as, "the most significant English-language play of the 20th century". [4] [5] [6]