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A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.[1]

A Language All My Own
Directed by	Dave Fleischer
Produced by	Max Fleischer
Starring	Mae Questel Margie Hines Ann Rothschild Kate Wright
Music by	Sammy Timberg (uncredited)
Animation by	Hicks Lokey Myron Waldman
Color process	Black-and-white
Production company	Fleischer Studios
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	July 19, 1935 (1935-07-19)
Running time	6 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English Japanese

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.[2] 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.[3]

References

External links

• 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

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