Dinner Time

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Dinner Time (1928) is an animated short subject produced and directed by Paul Terry and co-directed by John Foster. The film is part of a series entitled Aesop's Film 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 was premiered in New York City on 1 September 1928 and released by Pathé on 14 October 1928, a month before Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie. The short, however was not successful with audiences and Disney's film would go on to be widely recognized as the first synchronized sound cartoon. Max and Dave Fleischer released about 30 cartoons in their Sound Car-Tunes series, made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film system between May 1924 and September 1926.