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Dinner Time (film)

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Dinner Time is a 1928 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
Title card from the film
Directed byPaul Terry
John Foster
Written byPaul Terry
John Foster
Produced byAmadee J. Van Beuren
Music byJosiah Zuro
Production
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Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • 1928 (1928)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
The full film

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

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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.

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 18–20. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ Grob, Gijs (2018). "Steamboat Willie". Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse. Theme Park Press. ISBN 978-1683901235.
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