''Dinner Time'' (1928) is an American

animated Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most ani ...

short subject produced by Amadee J. Van Beuren, directed by Paul Terry, co-directed by John Foster, and produced at

Van Beuren Studios The Van Beuren Corporation was a New York City-based animation studio that produced theatrical cartoons as well as live-action short-subjects from the 1920s to 1936. History In 1920, the Keith-Albee organization formed Fables Pictures for the ...

Josiah Zuro Josiah Zuro (27 November 1887, in Białystok – October 18, 1930, in La Jolla, California) was a pianist, conductor and film composer. Early life Josiah Zuro was the son of Louis Zuro, a Russian immigrant who became a producer of opera and Jo ...

arranged and conducted the "synchronized" music score. The film is part of a series entitled ''

Aesop's Fables Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to ...

'' and features the Terry creation

Farmer Al Falfa Farmer Al Falfa (also known as Farmer Alfalfa),
at

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cartoons. It premiered at the Strand Theater

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in August 1928 (according to the August 22 edition ''Film Daily'') and released by

Pathé Exchange Pathé Exchange, commonly known as Pathé, was an American film production and distribution company, largely of Hollywood's silent era. Known for its groundbreaking newsreel and wide array of shorts, it grew out of the American division of the m ...

on October 14, 1928, a month before

Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney (; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons. As a film p ...

's sound cartoon, ''

Steamboat Willie ''Steamboat Willie'' is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Pat Powers, under the name of Celebrity Productions. The cartoon ...

''. ''Dinner Time'' was not successful with audiences and Disney's film would be widely touted as the first synchronized sound cartoon. Max and

Dave Fleischer Dave Fleischer (; July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American film director and producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer. He was a native of New York City. Biography Fleischer was the ...

released 36 cartoons in their ''

Song Car-Tunes '' Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes'', ''Song Car-Tunes'', or (some sources erroneously say) ''Sound Car-Tunes'', is a series of short three-minute animated films produced by Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer between May 1924 and September 1927, pioneering t ...

'' series—with about 19 of those made in the DeForest

Phonofilm Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s. Introduction In 1919 and 1920, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patents on a sound-on-film proce ...

system—between May 1924 and September 1926.

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* 1928 films 1928 animated films 1920s American animated films 1920s animated short films Aesop's Fables (film series) American animated short films American black-and-white films Terrytoons shorts Van Beuren Studios Films directed by Paul Terry {{short-animation-film-stub

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