sentences:  While Laborer's Love is now canonized as the earliest surviving Chinese film, short comedy films were in fact looked down upon by 1920s Chinese audiences and did not do well at the box office, meaning that the film is not an accurate representation of the film culture at this point in Chinese history.In the 1920s, 90% of the films released in China were American films, which greatly influenced both Chinese filmmakers and the Chinese film market.Many of the jokes and visual themes in the work were inspired by American silent film comedians Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, which also shows the global character of the film.