A Language All My Own
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{{Infobox film
| name = A Language All My Own
| image =
| caption =
| director = Dave Fleischer
| story = Jack Ward
Thomas Johnson
(all uncredited){{cite book |author= |date=July 1935 |title=Fleischer's Animated News |isbn=}}
| animator = Hicks Lokey
Myron Waldman
Edward Nolan (unc.)
Lillian Friedman (unc.)
Herman Cohen (unc.)
Sam Stimson (unc.)
| starring = Mae Questel{{Cite book |title=Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70 |last=Scott |first=Keith |publisher=BearManor Media |year=2022 |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |page=339}}
| music = Sammy Timberg (uncredited)
| producer = Max Fleischer
| studio = Fleischer Studios
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1935|07|19}}
| country = United States
| color_process = Black-and-white
| runtime = 6 minutes
| language = English
Japanese
}}
A Language All My Own is a 1935 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/56/mode/2up |pages=54–56}}
Synopsis
Production
The studio produced this short after discovering that Betty was very popular in Japan.[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/myron-waldman-1908-2006-1582.html MYRON WALDMAN 1908-2006 ] 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.[http://www.animationarchive.org/bio/2005/12/waldman-myron.html ASIFA-Hollywood Cartoon Hall Of Fame: WALDMAN, Myron] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015083148/http://www.animationarchive.org/bio/2005/12/waldman-myron.html |date=October 15, 2006 }}
References
External links
- A Language All My Own on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHTUHT4kAOY Youtube]
- A Language All My Own at [https://archive.today/20130117185516/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/65376-Language_All_My_Own.html the Big Cartoon Database]
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026601/ Internet Movie Database entry for A Language All My Own]
{{Betty Boop films}}
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Category:1930s American animated films
Category:American animated black-and-white films
Category:1935 animated short films
Category:Paramount Pictures short films
Category:Fleischer Studios short films
Category:Short films directed by Dave Fleischer
Category:1930s English-language films
Category:American animated short films
Category:English-language short films
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