China Town, My China Town
About China Town, My China Town
Two comic Chinese figures share the screen, one eating and one ironing. The eater swallows a shirt that has just been ironed. The picture is a Screen Song built around the 1910 tune "Chinatown, My Chinatown," with a bouncing ball for the audience to follow.
Cast & crew
More about China Town, My China Town
Max Fleischer presented it. Dave Fleischer directed. Paramount released the short. It was copyrighted on August 2, 1929, and released on August 29. It belongs to the Screen Songs series, which stopped the cartoon and asked the audience to sing.
Themes
Background
Screen Songs reused Tin Pan Alley numbers. This one uses a 1910 song and the laundry-and-restaurant jokes then common in American cartoons.
Making
Fleischer stopped the cartoon so a theater audience could sing the old song with the ball.
Music
The audience is led through "Chinatown, My Chinatown" by a bouncing ball.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The song "Chinatown, My Chinatown" was published in 1910.
- The drawings are broad comic figures of Chinese men, including a laundry gag.
- The bouncing-ball lyric is the point of the series, not a separate story.
Scenes
- The eater swallows the shirt the other man has just ironed.
Influenced by
- Chinatown, My Chinatown (song, 1910)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Chinatown My Chinatown(1929).webm)
