A Language All My Own

A Language All My Own

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = A Language All My Own
series = Betty Boop


caption =
director = Dave Fleischer
story_artist =
animator = Hicks Lokey
Myron Waldman
voice_actor = Mae Questel
musician = Sammy Timberg (uncredited)
producer = Max Fleischer
distributor = Paramount Pictures
release_date = July 19, 1935
color_process = Black-and-white
runtime = 6 mins
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0026601

"A Language All My Own" is a 1935 Fleischer Studio animated short film starring Betty Boop.

ynopsis

Betty flies to Japan to do a show, and sings the title number. She then dons a kimono, and sings it again in Japanese.

Notes and comments

The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan. [ [http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2006_02.html Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » 2006 » February ] ] Animator Myron Waldman, worried that Betty's gestures might offend the conservative Japanese audience, asked a group of Japanese college students to review his work. [ [http://www.animationarchive.org/bio/2005/12/waldman-myron.html ASIFA-Hollywood Cartoon Hall Of Fame: WALDMAN, Myron ] ] Having Betty sing in Japanese also allowed her to slip a racy comment past the Hays Office: one of the lyrics in the Japanese song translates to "Come to bed with me and we'll boop-oop-a-doop!" [ [http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2006_02.html Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » 2006 » February ] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/65376-Language_All_My_Own.html A Language All My Own at the Big Cartoon Database]


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