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Between 1928 and 1933, before feature films were dubbed, entire movies were shot separately in several languages. Chang collages selections from the English and German versions of S.O.S. Iceberg (1933) and the French and English versions of The Mistress of Atlantis (1932), juxtaposing corresponding scenes. The impossibility of performing a visually identical duplicate of an action is reflected by the superimposed soundtracks, where divergences of pacing lead to intervals of silence on one that allow us to understand the other and vice versa, between stretches filled with a virtually unintelligible babel of voices.