A Language All My Own
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| A Language All My Own
Betty Boop series |
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| 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 |
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A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studio animated short film starring Betty Boop.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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!"[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » 2006 » February
- ^ ASIFA-Hollywood Cartoon Hall Of Fame: WALDMAN, Myron
- ^ Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » 2006 » February
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