A Language All My Own
Appearance
A Language All My Own | |
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Directed by | Dave Fleischer |
Story by | Jack Ward Thomas Johnson (all uncredited)[1] |
Produced by | Max Fleischer |
Starring | Mae Questel[2] |
Music by | Sammy Timberg (uncredited) |
Animation by | Hicks Lokey Myron Waldman Edward Nolan (unc.) Lillian Friedman (unc.) Herman Cohen (unc.) Sam Stimson (unc.)[1] |
Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Japanese |
A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.[3]
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.
Production
[edit]The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan.[4] 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.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Fleischer's Animated News. July 1935.
- ^ 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
[edit]- 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
Categories:
- 1935 films
- Betty Boop cartoons
- Films set in Japan
- 1930s American animated films
- American animated black-and-white films
- 1935 animated short films
- Paramount Pictures short films
- Fleischer Studios short films
- Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
- 1930s English-language films
- American animated short films
- English-language short films
- Betty Boop cartoon stubs