Tom and Jerry - A Language All My Own (1948) Opening Title & Closing

A MGM Cartoon Release On July 3, 1948 and got reissued On February 18, 1956

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@AP no, 666.

KoTheGoober I read that Fleischer asked a group of Japanese college students studying in America to review it to make sure it went over well.

+Filby Really?

Ink-Bleedful According to Wikipedia, anyway.

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That's because this was made for the appreciation of Betty Boop being popular among Japanese fans

She- and Max Fleischer- inspired a young Japanese artist named Osamu Tezuka, who grew up on Fleischer's Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons. After the war, he became a prolific "manga" artist and writer-- creating, among other legendary characters, "Astro Boy" and "Kimba the White Lion"....which later became TV cartoon series, and imported to the U.S. in the early 1960's. Tezuka became known as "the Walt Disney of Japan".

Barry I. Grauman my art teacher would talk about this for hours too, I'd honestly forgotten I made this comment. The way the artistic world can inspire each other through things like this to create entirely new genres is amazing.

So this is where anime got it's fanservice trope from.

don't dare to compare those old animated treasures to the crap called anime. I'd rather prefer to be thrown into a hole full of cobras than to watch anime.

@@alex9920iasi well sure because a lot of it is just girls doing men's roles. But some are good like outlaw star, Hellsing, Akame ga kill.

They had Japanese exchange students helping them. :)

@@daddylonglegs9854 mae questel speaks five languages Japanese is one of them.

except for the "arengato" part

日本人の方なのですか？ どうアメリカで生き延びたのでしょう？ すごく貴重なご意見をありがとうございます。 Are you Japanese, sir? How could you be alive under the WWII? I'm really amazed to hear your very precious opinion! Huge thanks! Hug from Tokyo! I'm 24-year-old woman:)

Even tho that show come out 100 years ago is still great to this day.

@@udon-no-onna I'm sure reruns exist....maybe a grand parent had a CD or recording of the episode.

Absolutely not my friend...

Her voice makes every moe girl blush harder.

Amber DeYuliis nah

yes yes yes yes & Yes oh hell yeah & not only that she sounds ALot lik Cindy Lauper !& If you don't know

Amber DeYuliis yes yes yes she is accusing was you were her and she sounds a lot like Cyndi Lauper you don't know who she is look her up and you'll really like her ☮️

Early vocaloids would not exist until the sixties

Trueeee

I legit want a Betty Boop Vocaloid to exist now. And it better cost more than 100.

@@justatoaster3140 r/woooosh

CHANNEL NHẬT NGUYÊN nice job! Translated: Yoku yata!

did Betty's voice actor learn Japanese

@@christhekappa399 I doubt it

Thank youuu

Even tho they all look alike?

@@hoodatdondar2664 That’s probably because they are background characters

@@loghorn-feghorn And that's before the war

How about the show itself. When we start to appreciate art and not feelings. Feelings are important but they are as important as feelings should be, art like this is in its own beautiful, but when you look with the modern lens and break down every microaggresson and cultural appropriation it becomes not art anymore, now its just proofreading ancient art works with modern extremist values what have changed in between these times thousands of times. Everywhere is a problem if youre looking for it

Yes, the Fleischers were often subtly didactic, and often showcased issues that are still relevant today. Popeye is mostly about bullying and abuse of women by men. There's an awful lot about being kind to others throughout the Fleischer catalog of shorts. Popeye doesn't get angry because people are different. He gets angry because people do something bad. Betty Boop's "Be Human" is about humane treatment of animals. I could go on. Betty Boop is always tolerant of others and here she is pushing harmony between nations and ethnic groups. There are some stereotypes of African Americans in Fleischer cartoons, but since they got the cooperation of some African American stars, like Cab Calloway, I guess they weren't considered to be offensive. One thing here: While the American audience at the beginning is made up of different faces wearing a variety of clothing, all the Japanese in the audience in Japan have the same face and wear the same clothing. I'm guessing the animators didn't have a lot of time to do research or were actually running out of time to finish the animation. By this time, Japanese people often wore Western style clothing, and they certainly would not have all been wearing the same kimono in any case. And indeed, they don't all look alike.

Who is just watching this in 2021?! I am.

Fleischer was a gentleman as long as everyone else was as well.

Nathaniel Garza good for you pro.

Frank Scivier I'm not a judge of any foreign culture, but what we saw here seemed pretty grateful to Japan. It strangely both gladdens and saddens me that portrayals of Japanese people weren't so awful until hostilities escalated.

Frank Scivier And she got to sing in Japanese

the calm before the storm

@@SuperCatfire : Yeah! Really!………..What was to come later was a total tragedy!

how dare to insult Fleischer cartoons that way? shame on you. Anime sucks !

@@alex9920iasi today's cartoons suck as well.

darth rias gremory I agree with you, today’s cartoons are mostly bad. That’s why I saved the old cartoons on USB drives and I mainly watch classic cartoons. But let’s face it, at least every animated show is different and has it’s own style, unlike animes whick they look all the same.

MUH MARXHIZT PROPHAGHANDHA.

Three words Bebop, Eva, Miyazaki.

The interment camps were too bad but if you think that's one of the saddest episodes of the war then I can't imagine what you think of what happened in China and Korea.

All the property that was "confiscated" from the Nisei was not given back. The whole "scare" was a land grab scheme, pure and simple, from the negative propaganda (which was one massive "con") to the actual pogroms. The men involved will rot in hell for it, I assume, unless their victims forgive them.

@@WildBillCox13 well mabey there people should not have attacked pearl harbor.

Darth rias gremory I hate to tell you, but those people were American citizens. Some had migrated here and become citizens, others were born here. Are you saying, if your ancestors migrated here and later we get into a conflict with the country they came from, it's ok to confiscate your property and throw you in a concentration camp. The army formed the all Japanese Nisei Battalion (100th Infantry Battalion) that fought in Europe and was awarded a Presidential unit citation and 4 Meritorious Unit Commendations. In 5 months of fighting in Africa and Italy they went from 1300 men to 500 . They fought in the battle of Monte Casisno, which was a slaughter house until the Military decided to bomb the St. Benedictine monastery where the Germans were.I think they proved there love of this country

darth rias gremory it wasn't "their people" since they were American.

BETTY BOOP looks CUTE & BEAUTIFUL in any outfit. I wish i could marry her.

+Haven the Maid of Breath that said, the real irony is that Japan can be just as racist as America. Just look at Mr Popo or Jynx or the Pepsi man videogame.

GregTheLion It's misunderstanding. Mainly our culture doesn't have racist idea for African American people. I guess they just used black color as same as any other colors. Some time Japanese people avoid talk with tourists from other countries, but that's because they feel scare about talk English. If there is racist person in Japan, I think most of them are not young generation. I'm sorry about my poor English...but I hope you're not hate Japan.

They CAN be racist, but Mr. Popo and Jynx are Americans projecting, since they have Japanese myth analogues and aren't trying to be blackfaces(Mr Popo isn't supposed to be even human for crying out loud).

@@scissorman44 but he does resemble a character from jungle jitters.

The similitude is coincidental(and smaller than claimed), there ARE actual black characters(if incredibly minor) in Dragon Ball and they don't look like Mr Popo. Because, AGAIN, Mr Popo is not supposed to even be human. Again, this mindset is AMERICANS PROJECTING(there's also the issue of cultural isolation. Japan is a rather closed country and they often don't know about outside cultures as well as the US because the amount of immigrants isn't as large due the nature of the country, AKA being an island. So the best direct source they have to black people is...media. And media can paint quite a goddamn stereotypical picture of any race. So a LOT of potential racism from Japanese is actually inspired from American racism, since Japan doesn't even have a big enough population to know or care about them, nor the cultural background to have the blackface stereotype)

The war between the US and Japan broke out on December 7, 1941, (or the 8th, if you were in Japan) not 1935 or 1939, of course, but the Fleischers were surely aware of the Japanese occupation of Korea and Manchuria, which were well established by this time. How would I know, but maybe they wanted to be very precise in stating that while the government of Japan was committing these heinous acts, the people of Japan were very much united with Americans in loving innocent music, cartoons, and, in particular, Betty Boop, who was a "star" there too. It is a horrible fact of human history that leaders find it necessary to turn all the people of a nation into the enemies of their own people, goading them into wars during which the leaders are rarely killed any more, but millions of soldiers and civilians are. Washington may have crossed the Delaware with his troops, but LBJ didn't cross the Mekong with his.

Up until the attack on Pearl Harbor (and I do mean _right_ up until the attack), US-Japanese relations were fairly warm and looking to get warmer. The Japanese invasion of Manchuria caused a bit of trouble, but hopes were still high until the bombs fell. As President Roosevelt notes in his "Infamy Speech", "The United States was at peace with [Japan], and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its Government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific", referencing the "Hull Note", a message sent to Japan by the Secretary of State containing diplomatic proposals for maintaining peace and the US-Japanese relationship. But Pearl Harbor ruined everything, all because the Japanese military thought it would demoralize the Americans enough to knock them out of the war before it was even officially declared. Not to say there were _never any_ racist caricatures _before_ the war, of course, but Pearl Harbor was when they _really_ exploded and got less "thoughtless" and more "outright nasty".

Actually, it's far from it! This short was made in appareciation of Betty Boop's Japanese fans.

I#m suprised that people finally found their brain and see when those cartoons where made *sarcasm*.

@@gir8244 BETTY BOOP WAS VERY WELL LOVED BY HER FANS IN JAPAN.

@@davidwesley2525 Not only that, but her and Fleischer Studios in general helped shape Anime into what it is today thanks to Osamu Tezuka being inspired by his stuff as you can see in his books like Astro Boy, Jungle Emperor Leo (Kimba) Black Jack, Phoenix, and many others.

chanel pugh more like they didn't rely on racial caricatures for humor unlike most pre modern cartoons which is refreshing

I wouldn't count this as _racist_, considering the short was made for Betty Boop's fans in Japan. And the reply above is very true.

george ruch I think it’s because the cartoon focuses on differences that are cultural rather than race-based.

@@reoire843 another thing I find some modern viewers forget is the cultural devide was actually more pronouced back then. like some people (Lowkey calling out my dumbass friend) would say "why are they all wearing kinono? that's sterotyping!" but back then western fashions where not popular, so people still mainly wore kinono. it's funny that historical accuracy is often treated as sterotyping. edit:also I seen people think the way older charters walk in kimono to be stereotyping but like, that stuffs hard to walk in.

@@thisotakugirl1017 i feel that the people that get offended, genuinely don't understand the topic at hand. www.tokyoweekender.com/2019/05/japanese-fashion-eras-heian-heisei/ And about kimonos being heavy to wear, I also feel that people don't understand how a kimono is worn either. There's just so many layers in that thing.

It explains very much why some of his characters look very similar to ones in Max' cartoons. Its also been stated that Bambi was an influence too, though If you look at his artwork side by side with Fleischer, you can see the similarities.

Paula Teixeira And the rest of the song?

Cuphead is American.

Well, all those you mentioned were heavily inspired by Max Fleischer, so it makes sense (Cant say I was aware of the Teenage Robot connection, but looking at it with that context makes sense)

TeaCup This cartoon was made to pay tribute to the many Betty Boop fans in Japan. That's why so much carefulness was put into making it respectful, as compared to how other cartoons depicted other foreign cultures.

kingx mettaton 😂

Very late but it was actually the same voice actor in English and Japanese

I think it's a practice we borrowed from Thailand, where it is the custom. It seems to work.

I wish i could marry BETTY BOOP. I would love to have BETTY BOOP for a wife.

hi from 6 years after you comment