This is a short in Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables series, produced by Van Beuren studio. There will be spoilers ahead:
This short is interesting because it was a sound cartoon, with sound on film and it was actually released ahead of Steamboat Willie. Given that Steamboat Willie is a much better cartoon which blows this out of the water is an indication that technology carries one only so far.
The short itself, apart from the sound synchronization, is not markedly different from the earlier silent shorts Paul Terry did. It begins with a bird waking up and going out, with a nice gag showing the bird reaching the ground from his birdhouse in a novel fashion.
There follows a few largely disconnected gags showing various animals trying to catch a meal. The bird tries to catch a worm, a cat tries to catch the bird (there's a nine lives scene that's moderately good) a dog digging up bones which turns into a three dog gag and a dog with a bone looking at his reflection, but with a twist to the old fable it's modeled after.
This finally takes us to the main story, where Al Falfa is a butcher beset by problems with incredibly tough meat and persistent dogs. One dog steals a side of beef, Al chases him and dogs converge on the unattended shop. Al then calls the pound and a dogcatcher comes over.
The dogcatcher corrals the dogs and loads them in his wagon, but Al gets knocked out by a large bear-like dog seen earlier in the short, the dogs are freed and Al is placed in the wagon. Al gets into a fight with the dogcatcher, takes him out and then starts chasing the dogs, who have hit on a novel plan to take Al for everything he has.
This short can be found here and there and is worth a look.
This short is interesting because it was a sound cartoon, with sound on film and it was actually released ahead of Steamboat Willie. Given that Steamboat Willie is a much better cartoon which blows this out of the water is an indication that technology carries one only so far.
The short itself, apart from the sound synchronization, is not markedly different from the earlier silent shorts Paul Terry did. It begins with a bird waking up and going out, with a nice gag showing the bird reaching the ground from his birdhouse in a novel fashion.
There follows a few largely disconnected gags showing various animals trying to catch a meal. The bird tries to catch a worm, a cat tries to catch the bird (there's a nine lives scene that's moderately good) a dog digging up bones which turns into a three dog gag and a dog with a bone looking at his reflection, but with a twist to the old fable it's modeled after.
This finally takes us to the main story, where Al Falfa is a butcher beset by problems with incredibly tough meat and persistent dogs. One dog steals a side of beef, Al chases him and dogs converge on the unattended shop. Al then calls the pound and a dogcatcher comes over.
The dogcatcher corrals the dogs and loads them in his wagon, but Al gets knocked out by a large bear-like dog seen earlier in the short, the dogs are freed and Al is placed in the wagon. Al gets into a fight with the dogcatcher, takes him out and then starts chasing the dogs, who have hit on a novel plan to take Al for everything he has.
This short can be found here and there and is worth a look.