A Language All My Own

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A Language All My Own
Directed byDave Fleischer
Produced byMax Fleischer
StarringMae Questel
Margie Hines
Ann Rothschild
Kate Wright
Music bySammy Timberg (uncredited)
Animation byHicks Lokey
Myron Waldman
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
July 19, 1935
Running time
6 mins
LanguageEnglish, Japanese

A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.[1]

Synopsis[edit]

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[edit]

  • The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan.[2] 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.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ MYRON WALDMAN 1908-2006
  3. ^ ASIFA-Hollywood Cartoon Hall Of Fame: WALDMAN, Myron Archived October 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine

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