A Language All My Own

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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

1. ^ ^{a b} Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation » 2006 » February
2. ^ ASIFA-Hollywood Cartoon Hall Of Fame: WALDMAN, Myron

External links

• A Language All My Own at the Big Cartoon Database
• Internet Movie Database entry for A Language All My Own

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