A Language All My Own (1935)

A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studio animated short film starring Betty Boop. Betty flies to Japan to do a show, and sings the title number. She then dons a kimono, and sings it again in Japanese. The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan. 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. 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!" Directed by: Dave Fleischer 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Boop

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