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Farmer Al Falfa Filmography
The following is a list of theatrical short films featuring the cartoon character Farmer Al Falfa. Each set of films here is separated by studio. Thanhauser Corporation Bray Studios Edison/Conquest Pictures A. Kay Co. Paramount Fables Studios Van Beuren Studio Terrytoons {, class="wikitable" , - ! Title !! Release date , - , ''French Fried'' , , September 7, 1930 , - , ''Club Sandwich'' , , January 25, 1931 , - , ''Razzberries'' , , February 8, 1931 , - , ''The Explorer'' , , March 22, 1931 , - , ''The Sultan's Cat'' , , May 17, 1931 , - , ''Canadian Capers'' , , August 23, 1931 , - , ''The Champ'' , , September 20, 1931 , - , ''Noah's Outing'' , , January 24, 1932 , - , ''Ye Olde Songs'' , , March 20, 1932 , - , ''Woodland'' , , May 1, 1932 , - , ''Farmer Al Falfa's Bedtime Story'' , , June 12, 1932 , - , ''Spring Is Here'' , , July 24, 1932 , - , ''Farmer Al Falfa's Ape Girl'' , , August 7, 1932 , - , ''Farmer Al Falfa's Birthday Party'' , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmer Al Falfa And His Tentless Circus
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer might own the farm land or might work as a laborer on land owned by others. In most developed economies, a "farmer" is usually a farm owner (landowner), while employees of the farm are known as ''farm workers'' (or farmhands). However, in other older definitions a farmer was a person who promotes or improves the growth of plants, land or crops or raises animals (as livestock or fish) by labor and attention. Over half a billion farmers are smallholders, most of whom are in developing countries, and who economically support almost two billion people. Globally, women constitute more than 40% of agricultural employees. History Farming dates back as far as the Neolithic, being one of the defining characteristics of that era. By the Bronze Age, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmer Al Falfa
Farmer Al Falfa (also known as Farmer Alfalfa), at Archived from the original on June 27, 2016. Source notes: "Al (whose name later became Farmer Alfalfa, one word, as evidenced by occasional sightings of it spelled out on screen)...." the quintessential grizzly old farmer type, is an |
Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York
''Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York'', also called ''Farmer Al Falfa in New York'', is a 1916 silent short animated film produced by Bray Productions Bray Productions was a pioneering American animation studio that produced several popular cartoons during the years of World War I and the early interwar era, becoming a springboard for several key animators of the 20th century, including the ..., featuring Farmer Al Falfa. The film is part of the early series to feature the character. The series itself began after a successful pilot film released a year ago. The film features Farmer Al Falfa getting involved in a high-stakes poker game, where the other players are trying to cheat. Plot Farmer Al Falfa arrives in New York City by taxi. Yards away, a man with binoculars on a rooftop looks for visitors to rob until setting sights on Al. The man phone calls a femme fatale woman and tells her to meet him. The woman finds and invites Al to come with her to a night club. At the night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Window Washers
''The Window Washers'' is a 1925 silent animated short subject produced by Fables Studios, and one of the '' Aesop's Fables'' cartoons started by animator Paul Terry. When released for television in the 1950s, musical tracks were added. Summary A cat and a rat are in an automobile, riding on a rural road. Different from how most cats appear earlier in the series, the feline in the cartoon wears shorts, one of few things that would inspire Walt Disney to create Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. While the cat and the rat go on riding, a highway patrol cop on a motorbike pursues them, believing they are traveling too fast, though they aren't really. To lose their chaser, they disconnect the car's frame. The frame falls on the road and knocks the cop off the motorbike. The cat and the rat continue their journey, using only the wheels of their vehicle. In another scene in the area, an elderly man is having some slight problems with his car. He goes for a drive but the vehicle travels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Closer Than A Brother
''Closer than a Brother'' is a 1925 silent short animated film created by Fables Studios. It is among the early cartoons of the ''Aesop's Fables'' series created when its originator Paul Terry was still involved.{{cite book , last1=Lenburg , first1=Jeff , title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons , date=1999 , publisher=Checkmark Books , isbn=0-8160-3831-7 , accessdate=June 6, 2020 , url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/18/mode/2up , pages=18–20 Plot A cat stubbornly refuses to get off of bed but eventually does, thanks to his helpful animated clock. He then plays some music in a stereo for exercising, and later goes to the dining room where he has flapjacks for breakfast. Finally he heads for work in his bicycle. The cat works in a poultry compound run by a strict geezer. One of his duties is to make sure the hens are laying a sufficient number of eggs. He then courteously directs the geezer to the office. Also entering the office is a ballerina who is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Town Sheriff
''Small Town Sheriff'' is a 1927 silent animated short subject produced by Fables Studios and part of the '' Aesop's Fables'' film series started by Paul Terry. Plot An 80-year-old man travels on a rural road in his single-seat car. When his radiator overheats, he heads to a nearby water pump to cool it. While he cools, someone comes and rides away with his vehicle. Not knowing what to do after his car was stolen, the man comes to a soft drink stand operated by a black civet. Despite the stand being labelled "soda", the beverages served there seem to give customers depressant-like effects such as drowsiness. The man orders a soda bottle, but is unable to open it. As an alternative, the civet offers soda in a glass. Upon drinking the beverage, he starts to twitch and lose consciousness. The man dreams of himself in space, being thrown from one rock to another. On one rock he meets an invisible entity wearing a hat, gloves, and boots. The entity sells the man a bottle of soda, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinner Time (cartoon)
''Dinner Time'' (1928) is an American animation, animated short subject produced by Amadee J. Van Beuren, directed by Paul Terry (cartoonist), Paul Terry, co-directed by John Foster (cartoonist), 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 (film series), Aesop's Fables'' and features the Terry creation Farmer Al Falfa who works as a butcher, fending off a group of pesky dogs. ''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 (according to the August 22 edition ''Film Daily'') and released by Pathé Exchange on October 14, 1928, a month before Walt Disney's sound cartoon, ''Steamboat Willie''. ''Dinner Time'' was not successful with audiences and Disney's film would be widely touted as the first synchronized sound cartoon. Max Fleischer, Max and Dave Fleischer release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Iron Man (1930 Film)
''The Iron Man'' is a 1930 animated film which was directed by John Foster (cartoonist), John Foster and Harry Bailey. It was produced by The Van Beuren Corporation, and released by Pathé, a film distributor which had the newsreel Pathé News. The film was also part of the early sound cartoon series entitled ''Aesop's Sound Fables''. However, although the film is part of that-said series, the film is actually not based on a fable written by Aesop. Another abnormality with this film is that although it was released in 1930, the copyright notice on the actual film reads in roman numerals MCMXXIX, which translates to 1929. Plot The film begins with a male cat walking down the street singing and playing a musicbox. He then descends onto a neighborhood. He plays there until Farmer Al Falfa, a recurring character in the Aesop series, looks out of his window, and describes the music as "rotten". He then gets out of his house, and asks the cat to leave. He compiles, by running off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farmer Al Falfa's Prize Package
''Farmer Al Falfa's Prize Package'' is a 1936 short animated film released by 20th Century Fox. It is among the theatrical cartoons, featuring Farmer Al Falfa and Kiko the Kangaroo. When released for home viewing by Castle Films, the film wore the alternate title of ''The Prize Package''. Plot Farmer Al Falfa is napping in front of his countryside house until he receives a letter. The letter is from his brother Hank who is sending him a pet named Kiko. Al is excited by this at first. Momentarily the package with the pet arrives, and it appears Kiko is a kangaroo. Al seems dismayed about Kiko being a kangaroo. Nevertheless, he gives Kiko a decent welcome to the house as well as doing some shining on Kiko's shoes. After bathing inside, Kiko comes out to play with Al but the old farmer doesn't find the marsupial's antics enjoyable. Moments afterward, a pack of cops confront Al and tell him it's "illegal" to keep a kangaroo. When they attempt to arrest him, Kiko brawls with the cops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swooning The Swooners
''Swooning the Swooners'' is a 1945 short animated film produced by Terrytoons and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is among the Terrytoons films made during the studio's color era. Plot One night in a city, numerous animals, mostly cats in saddle shoes, line up to watch a concert. The star of the event is a cat named Frankie. The cat sings a lullaby-style song of moderate tempo. Some of the cats fall off the stands because of their affection for the singer. In a house in the vicinity, a white cat watches the performance through an open window. Lying in bed only a few feet away is Farmer Al Falfa who is the cat's master. The man, not liking the song, gets up and closes the window. The white cat, however, heads to the living room downstairs, and turns on a radio before she selects a station that plays the song. Al Falfa rushes to the living room, turns off the radio, and places the white cat outside. Without her master knowing, the white cat reenters the house through an ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Cartoon Database
The Big Cartoon DataBase (or BCDB for short) is an online database of information about animated cartoons, animated feature films, animated television shows, and cartoon shorts. The BCDB project began in 1997 as a list of Disney animated features on creator Dave Koch's local computer. In response to increasing interest in the material, the database went online in 1998 as a searchable resource dedicated to compiling information about cartoons, including production details such as voice actors, producers, and directors, as well as plot summaries and user reviews of cartoons. In 2003, BCDB became a 501(c) non-profit corporation. On June 24, 2009, it was announced by creator Dave Koch on his BCDB forums that the site had 100,000 titles. Due to system issues that have been unable to be resolved, all cartoon information on the site is non-existent after 2019. Users are no longer able to contribute to the site due to the issue. Since the creator is no longer active and the moderators ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Series Introduced In 1915
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
