A multiple-language version film, or MLV, was a motion picture produced in several languages for different national markets, mainly during the early sound era, by reusing the same sets, props and costumes while casting different, linguistically appropriate actors for each version and sometimes altering the script or scenes. The practice began in 1929 and quickly displaced the earlier international sound version method, with English, Spanish, French and German the most common languages used. It declined within a few years because of the added production cost and complexity, and had largely died out by the 1950s in most markets because of improvements in dubbing and subtitling, though India continued making such versions sporadically. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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To offset the marketing restrictions of making sound films in only one language, it became common practice for American and European studios to produce foreign-language versions of their films using the same sets, crew, costumes, etc but often with different actors fluent in each language.
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The first foreign-language versions appeared in 1929 and largely replaced the International Sound Version method for many major releases.
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