Chinatown, My Chinatown (film)

The title card of Chinatown, My Chinatown.

Chinatown, My Chinatown is a 1929 animated short film which was presented by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer.[1] 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.[2]

The film also features Chinese caricatures,[1] 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.[3]

Copyrighted on August 2, 1929[4][5] and released on the 29nd,[4][6] the film is part of "follow the bouncing ball" series entitled Screen Songs.[1][4] These films would instruct the audience to sing that said-song.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d Rockin Ed (October 25, 2009), Chinatown My Chinatown [1929], retrieved June 27, 2018
  2. ^ "Chinatown, my Chinatown". The Library of Congress. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  3. ^ "How Childhoods Spent in Chinese Laundries Tell the Story of America". Atlas Obscura. January 3, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  4. ^ a b c Bradley, Edwin M. (April 27, 2009). The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926–1931. McFarland. ISBN 9781476606842.
  5. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1929). Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  6. ^ Pointer, Ray (January 10, 2017). The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American Animation Pioneer. McFarland. ISBN 9781476663678.