''A Language All My Own'' is a 1935

Fleischer Studios Fleischer Studios () was an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until its acquisition by Paramount Pictures in 1942, the parent company and the distri ...

animated short Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby still images are manipulated to create moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Animati ...

film starring

Betty Boop Betty Boop is a cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Max Fleischer. She originally appeared in the '' Talkartoon'' and ''Betty Boop'' film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pic ...

Synopsis

Betty flies to

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

to do a show, and sings the title number. She then dons a

kimono The is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan. The kimono is a wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, and is worn Garment collars in hanfu#Youren (right lapel), left side wrapped over ri ...

, and sings it again in Japanese.

Production

The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan.MYRON WALDMAN 1908-2006
/ref> 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.

References

External links

*''A Language All My Own'' on
Youtube
*''A Language All My Own'' a

Internet Movie Database entry for A Language All My Own
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 {{BettyBoop-animation-film-stub