Sergei Eisenstein in his book The Film Sense, mentions this cartoon as a good example of image and sound coordination, mainly in the pawn scene.
The music is adapted from "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour" aka the "Barcarolle", a piece from The Tales of Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach (uncredited).
The first time Florence Gill portrayed a chicken in a Walt Disney cartoon. She would go on to play Clara Cluck in several Mickey Mouse shorts.
Dorothy Compton's debut.