Paul Terry — Director (15)
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The Good Ship Nellie (1928)
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Paul Terry / Frank Moser
Cartoon from the Aesop's Film Fables series. Directed by animation pioneers Paul Terry and Frank Moser, it follows a young sailor mouse who takes his lady love on a romantic trip aboard a British Navy frigate, only to be attacked by a gang of piratical cats.
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The Ugly Duckling (1925)
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Paul Terry
1925 Paul Terry version of the familiar story that was re-done twice by Walt Disney. Farmer Alfalfa gets into the early scenes since the story takes place on his farm.
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Farmer Al Falfa's Revenge (1916)
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Paul Terry
Sir Henry Bonehead is poaching Farmer Alfalfa's "game preserve", stunning animals with the scent of his pipe tobacco and shooting at what he imagines to be goats but which turn out to be Alfalfa himself. That's the standard of humor in this early Paul Terry cartoon for the Bray studio.
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Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York (1916)
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Paul Terry
Farmer Al Falfa goes to New York, money bag in hand. He is immediately spotted by a crook who dispatches a fetching lady to shake him down. At a restaurant, she gets him drunk and lays him out with knockout drops. But what's in the bag is not what she is expecting, and she flees. The now-drunken farmer has stepped dizzily outside to acquaint himself with a lamppost when another sharper steps up and hauls him into a crooked card game. While prospects do not look good for Farmer Al Falfa, he has more tricks up his sleeve than the city slickers realize.
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Happy Polo (1932)
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Paul Terry
Sound re-issue of a 1929 Paul Terry cartoon, The Polo Match. A jockey preparing his horse for the day's polo matches. He opens up the neck, pours gasoline in the horse, oils and greases his hoofs, cranks up the tail and the horse is ready to go!
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Wood Choppers (1929)
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Paul Terry
A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook. Estabrook suggested making a series of cartoons based on Aesop's Fables.
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Ball Park (1929)
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Paul Terry
An animated short film, and part of Paul Terry's Aesop's Film Fables, in which some animals play a game of baseball.
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Farmer Al Falfa's Wayward Pup (1917)
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Paul Terry
Farmer Al Falfa's pipe is stolen, smoked and buried by his frisky dog Fido. Some frantic chases ensue, with the farmer after Fido and Fido after various ducks and hens. The pooch's climactic battle with a fierce rooster leads to "fowl play."
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Dinner Time (1928)
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Paul Terry
other title: 晚餐时间
Dinner Time is noted as the first sound cartoon short made after Warner Bros.' success with The Jazz Singer and produced even before Walt Disney's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (though released after).
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The Fable of the Jolly Rounders (1923)
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Paul Terry
An Aesop's Fables cartoon about a hippo who had a few too many to drink, resulting in his wife kicking him out of the house. To win her back, the hippo conjures up a plan to make her jealous.