Chinatown, My Chinatown (1929)
- Original title
- China Town, My China Town
- Directed by
- Dave Fleischer
- Genre
- short film, animated film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 6 min
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This animated short from 1929 has a bouncing ball that moves over the lyrics of a song called Chinatown, My Chinatown. It shows cartoon Chinese characters doing everyday tasks like eating food and ironing shirts.
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What happens
Chinatown, My Chinatown is a 1929 animated short film which was presented by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer. The film, which was originally released by Paramount, features a sing-along version of the song "Chinatown, My Chinatown", a song that was originally published in 1910. The film also features Chinese caricatures, whose doings are stereotypical Chinese, such as eating Chinese food and ironing a shirt, as it was common for laundromats to be run by Chinese immigrants at that time. Copyrighted on August 2, 1929 and released on the 29nd, the film is part of "follow the bouncing ball" series entitled Screen Songs. These films would instruct the audience to sing that said-song. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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