Got a language of my own
known in every foreign home
You surely know it is
"A Language All My Own" is a Betty Boop cartoon by Max and Dave Fleischer that released on July 19, 1935.
Betty travels to Japan to do a show.
This cartoon was specifically made in response to the popularity Betty Boop was having in Japan. It is in the Public Domain.
Tropes Used in This Short:
- Adventurer Outfit: Betty wears an aviator outfit while traveling by plane.
- Flowers of Femininity: When Betty dons a kimono, she also places a flower in her hair.
- Instant Costume Change: Betty transforms her Little Black Dress into a traditional kimono by stretching out the fabric in a way that would be impossible outside of a cartoon.
- Instantly Defeathered Bird: Betty speeds past a bird and the resulting wind removes all the bird's feathers.
- Kimono Is Traditional: Betty changes into a kimono for the second part of her song.
- Medium Blending: The "Rotograph" technique was used when Betty first entered Japan to make a small model landscape in front of a drawn background.
- Multilingual Song: Betty sings the title song in both English and Japanese.
- Shown Their Work: Animator Myron Waldman worried that Betty's gestures might offend the conservative Japanese audience, so he asked a group of Japanese college students to review his work.
- Solid Clouds: The bird Betty passed by was standing on a cloud.
