A Language All My Own
1935 American film
- July 19, 1935 (1935-07-19)
Running time
Japanese
A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.[2]
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.[3] 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.[4]
References
- ^ Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 339. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 54–56. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ MYRON WALDMAN 1908-2006
- ^ ASIFA-Hollywood Cartoon Hall Of Fame: WALDMAN, Myron Archived October 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- A Language All My Own on Youtube
- A Language All My Own at the Big Cartoon Database
- Internet Movie Database entry for A Language All My Own
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