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Laundry Blues (1930)

Laundry Blues poster
Directed by
Mannie Davis, John Foster
Genre
animation, comedy
Country
United States of America
Runtime
8 min
Rating
4.2 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An animated short set in a laundromat run by Chinese caricatures. It was released in 1930 as part of the Aesop's Sound Fables series.

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What happens

Laundry Blues is a 1930 animated short film produced by The Van Beuren Corporation and released by Pathe. The film, which takes place in a laundromat run by Chinese caricatures, was released on August 17, 1930. The film is part of the cartoon series entitled Aesop's Sound Fables, a set of sound cartoons, which spurn of a series of silent cartoon made in the twenties which were adaptions of Aesop's Fables. Although it is part of the series, it is not based on a fable written by Aesop. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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