Trip to the Netherlands

An afternoon trip to Arnhem - and the 'Bridge too Far', a WWII battle to control this key bridge across the Rhine.

 
On my recent trip to the Netherlands we did training with missionaries that wanted to learn about film dubbing and subtitling.  Film dubbing is the process of keeping the music and sound effects from a film, but replacing the spoken dialog with a recordings of voices in a new language.  This is a much more complicated and time intensive process than just subtitling a film.  In a subtitled film you can keep the original soundtrack, but put subtitles of a new translation as text on the bottom of the screen.
 
I was sharing some of the things I did in dubbing as well as subtitling films, not only the JESUS film but more recently the File Zero series that we did with Agape Spain.  There were 12 in the class, but also 3 other people helping out with the training from their areas of expertise,  By the end of the class we had to put a 5-minute demo together for the final night when people from the other 14 training tracks also presented some of their work.  It was great to see everyone jump in and help each other with their projects in order to learn the skills they could take back home to meet some of the urgent needs they have in their ministry locations.
 
The class ran morning until night for 4 days, but we did have a break at the end.  The photo above is from an afternoon trip into Arnhem - the site of a key battle during WWII.  This bridge across the Rhine was key to the initial invasion by the Nazi's - but then later the Allies needed to take it stop the retreat of German Panzer tanks across the Rhine.  Ultimately we couldn't take the bridge and had to blow it up.  I need to add 'A Bridge Too Far' to my movie watch list!
 
After this the conference started...but that's a story for next time...

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