A Language All My Own

A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.^[3]

A Language All My Own
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	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.

Production

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]