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

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

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

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'' 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

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cartoons. It premiered at the Strand Theater

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in August 1928 and was released by

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on October 14, a month before

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'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 Animation Studios and was released by Pat Powers (producer), Pat Powers, under the name of Cele ...

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

Commonwealth Reissue

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

Commonwealth Reissue

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