Dinner Time (1928) is an American animated short subject produced by Amadee J. Van Beuren, directed by Paul Terry, co-directed by John Foster, and produced at Van Beuren Studios. Josiah Zuro arranged and conducted the "synchronized" music score. The film is part of a series entitled Aesop's Fables and features the Terry creation Farmer Al Falfa who works as a butcher, fending off a group of pesky dogs.[1]
Dinner Time was one of the first publicly shown sound-on-film cartoons. It premiered at the Strand Theater New York City in August 1928 and was released by Pathé Exchange on October 14, a month before Walt Disney's sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie.[2] Dinner Time was not successful with audiences and Disney's film would be widely touted as the first synchronized sound cartoon.
Commonwealth Reissue[edit]
In addition of them have used stock music cues from Thomas J. Valentino's music library, the 1950s Commonwealth reissue of this cartoon also has a narrator and voice actors. The voice actors spoked the characters' lines, the opposite of what happened in the original 1928 version. Some scenes were also changed places.
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References[edit]
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 18–20. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ Grob, Gijs (2018). "Steamboat Willie". Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse. Theme Park Press. ISBN 978-1683901235.
External links[edit]
Media related to Dinner Time (film) at Wikimedia Commons
The full text of Dinner Time at Wikisource- Dinner Time at IMDb
