A Language All My Own
| A Language All My Own | |
|---|---|
| Betty Boop series | |
| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Voices by | Mae Questel |
| Music by | Sammy Timberg (uncredited) |
| Animation by |
Hicks Lokey Myron Waldman |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 19, 1935 |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
| Running time | 6 mins |
| Language | English |
A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studio animated short film starring Betty Boop.
Synopsis
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.[1] 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.[2] 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!"[1]
References
External links
- A Language All My Own at the Big Cartoon Database
- Internet Movie Database entry for A Language All My Own