The Antique Girl Figure is a main character featured in the 1934 Silly Symphony short The China Shop.
Background[]
Personality[]
The Girl Figure is shown to be attractive to the Boy Figure, who treats her as his love interest. All the other objects inside the antiques shop became impressed of his dance with her. In spite of this, she is also shown to be fearful when the Satyr arrives and locks her up, making her the damsel to the Boy Figure. She also became happy when the Boy Figure rescued him from the Satyr.
Role in the short[]
After being placed in the shop, the Girl Figure and the rest of the other products inside the shop come to life. The Boy Figure opens a passage for the Girl Figure where he and his interest dance on a table, impressing a large group of items who are impressed by the waltz the two are doing. However, the Satyr sees the couple dancing, knocking the Boy Figure out of his way and caging the Girl Figure int o cabinet. This leads the Boy Figure to face the Satyr in an attempt to rescue the Girl Figure who is trapped as the Boy Figure kicks the Satyr, causing him to cough up the key, which launches onto the cabinet where the Girl Figure was locked, which he was able to rescue her after he threw the Satyr onto another area where the Clock woke up. Later, the shopkeeper places the female and male figures onto the spot where he last placed them, labeling them as rare antiques, just as the Girl Figure and Boy Figure happily stare at each other, happy to see each other back together.
Trivia[]
- The Girl Figure may have been inspired by the Shepherdess character Hans Christian Andersen fairytale "The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep".