In addition to the language and access issues, scandal also surrounded the release of “Incubus” (1966) when actor Milos Milos murdered Carolyn Mitchell in a murder-suicide and when Arndis actress Ann Atmar died by suicide days before the USA premiere.
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Further complicating things for “Incubus” (1966) was that the film lacked wide distribution and at some point the original negative was destroyed. It wasn’t until the mid90s that a single surviving print was located in France. It’s this print that was later digitally remastered with the French subtitles translated back into English which deepened the language barriers associated with the film
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The original script for “Incubus” (1966) was in english and was later translated into Esperanto. The cast was then given 10 days to learn their lines phonetically without the help of any experts in the Esperanto language which led to the film’s often stilted performances and shitastic Esperanto pronunciation
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All of the spoken dialogue in “Incubus” (1966) is in Esperanto, which was created by Polish Ophthalmologist Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof in the late 1880s as a planned auxiliary universal language meant to unite people as one. This may shock you but, as a unifying language, Esperanto never really caught on except as a niche language for dedicated hobbyists.
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Apparently, yesterday was “Incubus” (1966) leading man William Shatner‘s 95th birthday so Feliĉan Naskiĝtagon (“Happy Birthday“ in Esperanto) to him!
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