Laborer's Love is a 1922

1922 in film

-Events:* June 11 - United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film....

 short film produced in China. It is also known as Romance of a Fruit Peddler . It constitutes the earliest complete film from China's early cinematic history that survives today. The film was also one of the earliest productions of the soon-to-be prolific Mingxing Film Company

Mingxing Film Company

Mingxing Film Company was one of the largest Chinese production companies during the 1920s, and 1930s in Shanghai and Hong Kong. The company lasted from 1922 until 1937 when it was closed permanently by the Second Sino-Japanese War.-History:...

 and was directed and written by Mingxing co-founders Zhang Shichuan and Zheng Zhengqiu

Zheng Zhengqiu

Zheng Zhengqiu was a Chinese filmmaker and is often considered one of the "founding fathers" of the Cinema of China.-Biography:...

, respectively.

Notably, the film had both Chinese and English intertitles; a clear indication that at this early point in its history, cinema in Shanghai was made not only for the Chinese, but for the many Westerners residing there as well.

In 2007, Australian ensemble Blue Grassy Knoll

Blue Grassy Knoll

Blue Grassy Knoll are a 5 piece gypsy-bluegrass ensemble that formed in Melbourne in 1996. Original members were Steph O'Hara , Simon Barfoot Gus Macmillan Philip McLeod and Alex Miller...

wrote a new score to Labourer's Love, and performed it live in Shanghai and Beijing as part of the Australian Theatre Festival.