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5/10
Apparently, clothes DO make the man.
planktonrules20 November 2021
"The Girl at the Ironing Board" is very typical of the early Looney Tunes cartoons. It has great black & white* animation and LOTS of singing. Many cartoons of the day featured a lot of singing and dancing...which is why these cartoons don't hold up as well as the more comedically minded cartoons of the 1940s and 50s.

The short is set at a laundry. Soon after closing for the night, folks drop their clothing off through a night deposit window...and the clothes come to life and begin acting out a Dudley Dooright/Snidely Whiplash sort of fight over a girl's set of clothes. It's all quite strange...even by cartoon standards.

So is it good? Well, it's pretty much a one-gag cartoon....well animated but pretty dull.

*The only true full-color cartoons of the period were made by Disney. While a few studios (including Looney Tunes) experimented with color, they were forced to use the inferior two-color process film (like Cinecolor) because Disney signed an exclusive contract with Technicolor to use their new three-color film...which gave a fuller and true color look to the cartoons.
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7/10
In a more pointed warning than Joan Blondell's live-action version . . .
oscaralbert5 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
. . . of this song was able to provide during the concurrent feature film DAMES, Warner Bros.' Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, the Looney Tuners) are able to prognosticate a more detailed omen against America's current Reign of Terror under the admittedly Smallish Paws of Putin's Puppet, Rump. The action of THE GIRL AT THE IRONING BOARD begins in the same vein of the somewhat normal laundry setting presented in DAMES. However, the focus of attention soon deviates into areas NOT seen during Busby Berkeley's creation, such as the presence of one man in the laundry tasked with grinding the collars of men's shirts to a razor sharpness, with another guy assigned to break the buttons of those same shirts with a hammer. Sound familiar? Warner is clearly forecasting that the Oklahoma Attorney General who INCREASED serious earthquakes from an average of 2 per year to a current peak of 800 annually and rising would be installed as head of the "reformed" EPA (Environmental Pollution Agency); a closet KKK Imperial Wizard would be designated as Attorney General; the destroyer of Detroit Public Schools would be charged with carrying out such carnage nationwide; the multiple-times-a-traitor rapist of Chad from Exxon Valdez would be elevated to head American Diplomacy; and Racist Breitbart Fake News would get the exclusive right to determine the Facts of History--we all might as well cut our throats, Warner suggests with the shirt collar bit. At 4:48 a clearly recognizable caricature of Putin's Puppet Rump drops off HIS laundry, which immediately leers at, molests, and kidnaps all the nearby lingerie, signifying the type of Oligarchical Self-Entitled Pervert who would "buy" beauty pageants in Real Life solely for the "opportunity" to barge in unannounced upon a female changing room full of cringing nude teen girls. Warner is warning us that the 40 million deplorable demons masquerading as "Church People" who'd vote for such an Evil Imp MUST be drowned in cages, along with their Pied Piper, since that's exactly what happens to Rump's Long Johns at the end of this cartoon.
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