Dinner Time (1928) is an Americananimatedshort subject produced byAmadee J. Van Beuren, directed byPaul Terry, co-directed byJohn Foster, and produced atVan Beuren Studios.Josiah Zuro arranged and conducted the "synchronized" music score. The film is part of a series entitledAesop's Fables and features the Terry creationFarmer Al Falfa who works as a butcher, fending off a group of pesky dogs.[1]
Dinner Time was one of the first publicly shownsound-on-film cartoons. It premiered at the Strand TheaterNew York City in August 1928 and was released byPathé Exchange on October 14, a month beforeWalt 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.
In addition to the 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 spoke the characters' lines, as opposed to the nonsense vocalisations made in the original 1928 version. Some scenes were also reordered.
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