Laundry Blues
- Studio
- Van Beuren Studios
- Distributor
- RKO Radio Pictures
Synopsis
Strange doings in a Chinese laundry with outrageous Oriental and Yiddish stereotypes. Hijinks include mercilessly caricatured Chinese animals. How do you explain the Hassidic-Jewish-Chinese creature who comes to have his beard cleaned?
Characters
Laundrymen, Customers
Credits
Directing
- Director
- John Foster, Mannie Davis
Producing
- Producer
- Amadee J. Van Beuren
Crew
- Synchronization
- Gene Rodemich
- Sound Recording
- RCA Photophone System
Production notes
This cartoon offers many potentially offensive (and bizarre) characterizations of cats as "Chinese" laundrymen- complete with queues. One queue-wearing customer has a Yiddish accent and gets a laundry ticket bearing the word "kosher" in Hebrew.
This cartoon- and Doughnuts- (1933) were described by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival as "a pair of cartoons that reveal an incredible range of derogatory stereotypes of blacks, gays, Chinese, Italians and Jews."
A sequence involving a gay Chinese butler mooning over Rudy Vallee is censored in most prints.
This cartoon- and Doughnuts- (1933) were described by the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival as "a pair of cartoons that reveal an incredible range of derogatory stereotypes of blacks, gays, Chinese, Italians and Jews."
A sequence involving a gay Chinese butler mooning over Rudy Vallee is censored in most prints.
