A Language All My Own
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| A Language All My Own | |
| Betty Boop series | |
| Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
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| Animation by | Hicks Lokey Myron Waldman |
| Voices by | Mae Questel |
| Music by | Sammy Timberg (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Max Fleischer |
| Distributed by | Paramount Studios |
| Release date | July 19, 1935 |
| Format | Black-and-white, 6 mins |
| Language | English |
| IMDb page | |
A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studio animated short film atarring Betty Boop.
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[edit] Synopsis
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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
- ^ http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2006_02.html
- ^ http://www.animationarchive.org/bio/2005/12/waldman-myron.html
- ^ http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2006_02.html
[edit] External links
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