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

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• public
• domain
• video

[JA268]

Betty Boop in Japan SWEET! and she sang in Japanese too

[shortyblackwell]

Cartoons were drawn so much better then...not like the crap now.

[plymouthbelvedere]

Mae Questel's pronunciation is very good. She comes through clearly in Japanese.

[TheBigBuzzBee]

@Extratexture4 thanks now I know how to find it :)

[Extratexture4]

@TheBigBuzzBee , the "snake charmer music" is an old American song, called, The Streets of Cairo.

[TheBigBuzzBee]

@goddess098 snake charmer music

[TheBigBuzzBee]

@sheeroxs that's snake charmer music kesha used, she didn't make it up

[Shef0808]

kesha!!

[Dragon1813]

I wonder what this song would sound like in spanish.

[sheeroxs]

tell me im not imagining this.... when shes singing in the middle at 3:20, it sounds just like the tune "take it off" by Kesha!

[GekkoKamen]

Then I realize how sadly cruel war is. Then there was nothing but fondness of Japan and it was reciprocal, there was good will and desires to learn from each other. Six years later everything changed, the smiles were wiped out, and the good will was changed for a will to kill each other. What a tragedy.

[MattHatter]

I've been looking all over the web for a picture of Hicks Lokey and I can't find ONE DANG PICTURE OF THE GUY ANYWHERE! Not only that but I can't find any pics of Howard Swift and I only found one of Norman Ferguson. Why isn't there a place where you can see pictures of these legends?  Disney should have a special website that contains tons of photos of these guys working in the Disney studios.