"A Cat's Life" Terrytoon with Farmer Gray
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- 1920's silent cartoon by Paul Terry, starring Farmer Al Falfa (also known as Farmer Grey). A stock music soundtrack was added in the 1950s for television.
I'm sure the person who picked the needle drops for these cartoons' stock music had no idea how powerfully his work would affect so many children, now grown up.
In 1971 I wrote to WABC TV channel 7 in New York to inquire about these cartoons. This was their answer:
"The silent cartoons which were shown on WABC-TV some years ago were obtained at the time from a company known as Common Wealth Film and Television. Unfortunately, this company no longer exists and I have no idea who might now have the rights to those films.
The films were basically Paul Terry Cartoons and were handled by a number of different distributors in the early days of television. I expect that you might be able to get some by dealing with the camera stores which sell prints for home use such as the Peerless and Willouby Stores in New York.
Yours Truly,
Tak Kako
Assistant Director of Programming"
I watched these cartoons every morning as a kid in the late 50's early 60's on WABC channel 7 in New York...... This is really great to see again... Thanks alot.....
Are you alive???
I love these old cartoons. I may not have been alive when these came out, but I love them nonetheless.
So do i. Im obsessed with re-watching them from time and time.
I as well love these shows also have loved Charlie Chaplin since I was a kid.
2019, can't believe what we are missing from the past, thanks.
2020*:)
I've been binge watching these old terrytoon shorts, so charming!
my god, the memories of a 50s-60s childhood...
u still there..
Love it
Whoa old comment
I remember these being shown on WABC in New York City at 7 AM as a kid in elementary school.
Johann fick I remember it being on (the Only damn thing!) opposite something agricultural called The Modern Farmer. I would get sick of these (I preferred others) and sometimes watch that damn farm show. sick stuff! years later I ran into other kids who had seen some of the same ones.
Yea, me too. Brooklyn, 1958
Johann Fick Early Bird Cartoons, right?
THAT’S RIGHT!!!!!
Me too. Grew up in Ravenswood projects in Astoria
I LOVE animation in its infancy. I love the soundtrack to this cartoon, too.
Good exposure to classic music at very young ages.
I grew up watching these cartoons and i seem to remember Farmer Grey always having serious mice problems, and a slick character named Wiley Willie. He wore a derby and was so thin he could hide behind a thin pole.I watched them in NYC in the 40's and early 50's.
Wow thank you God bless my 1st time watching this please take care thanks for sharing
I watched Farmer Gray cartoons when I was kid in the '60's, on early morning tv! Thanks for downloading.
Queens,NY mid to late 1950's,was there a farm report on before this,anyone remember? After watching these cartoons,off to school with my yellow raincoat, black rubber boots with the metal clamps,brownbag lunch,books with a rubber strap,and find the deepest puddles to walk in. It was great!
I watched Farmer Gray cartoons( that's what I called them in the 1960's) weekday mornings in NY before school. I can remember that they were action packed and featured a lot of black cats. What a joy seeing them on TH-cam!
Ann 6 years later.. how are u!😇😇😇
Yes, i didnt mention those,i have a 1958 nyc tv gujde ,there where over a hundred childrens shows on in a week,to many to list. One that sticks in my head was TERRYTUNE CIRCUS, WOR 9 ,with Claude Kirchner and Clownie at 7;pm,. At the end of each show he said '' and now its time for most of you to go to bed '. He was on till 1960.
I was only 2 months old when this video was posted 😂
I just saw a whole night of Silent era animation on TCM and fell in love!!!! Already like films and shorts of the era.
I myself grew up on these wonderful cartoons, "Farmer Gray,Betty Boop,Bozo,Felix the Cat,Andy Devine,Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox,Mighty Mouse, and etc.There is nothing like the good old days. Early 1950's.
I can your one of the nice karen's
I remember these from the early 1950's in Detroit. Black and white TV and the three local stations on the air, always had a lot of time to fill and these cartoons were always on. Always "Farmer Gray" and lots of cats and mice beating the crap out of one another. LOL.
Yo no nasi en ese año pero las caricaturas de ése este estilo me encanta
I watched all the same cartoons. I miss them, too.
I watched them in the 50s I loved the classic music behind them farmer grey and Alfa
I agree I'm 42 years old and type in old black and white cartoon I was watching strawberry shortcake too lol
Queens nyc.. I watched Farmer Grey,,then Sandy Becker then Topper . Other early memories are Colonel Bleep , Crusader Rabbit, Spunky and Tadpole, Couragous Cat, Mighty Mouse Playhouse, Matty's Funday Funnies, Huckleberry Hound, God do i miss those days!
A "needle drop", 'PeppeRaskell', refers to music cues on a transcription disc, 78rpm or 33rpm long-playing record (as the Thomas J. Valentino stock music library was, right through the '80s), available to radio and TV stations, and independent movie producers {including Commonwealth}. Another famous music library on disc was Capitol's "Hi-Q" volumes, used extensively during the '50s and early '60s by Hanna-Barbera and other TV/movie producers...
my brother and I used to get up at 6AM on sat morn to watch these cartoons back in the 1960s. I used to record the music on my tape recorder. Still have the tapes! LOL!
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Ah the classics
GREAT detective work, guys! Thanks for posting this--I haven't seen these since the early 60's! Also--thanks for all the commentary about the source music...that was very enlightening!
Pickinbuddy 10 years later are u still here?how are u!😇
@@toukousumrah775715 years now
I discovered some on tape while in college in 1970. Then I came across a number of 78 rpm records at a Thrift Shop. They were on a lable identified as Thomas J. Vanlentino, which also had a sound effects library that was used extensively in radio and television 50 years ago.
I used to use the Boosey &^ Hawkes and Sam Fox music libraries with a needle drop of $35. I am sure it was much less when these early Terrytoons were repackaged for television.
I love Old Cartoons
Dude I'm today's teenager but back in old old time felt like I'm very old and the Cartoon's nostalgia hit me like a drug
I remember these! Hey 1952kid....remember Sonny Fox & the shows "Just for Fun" and "Wonderama"?
When I lived in Detroit, we knew him as Farmer Brown. It was the first cartoon on Saturday morning. He didn't become Farmer Alfalfa until he became colorized with sound. He wasn't anywhere near as good.
My brother and I always called these "un-talking cartoons." I am overjoyed to hear the music again. I seem to recall that some of it was quite modern-sounding, e.g., Prokoviev.
Great memories! Does anyone remember Crusader Rabbit? I remember watching it in the early 60s on WNBC Channel 4 in New York.
Its kind of relaxing to sleep to in a weird way
Much simpler then.
Have a Happy New Year!
I must be an old soul I was born in 1980 but I absolutely love old shows like these and love some Charlie Chaplin as well. Grew up watching mighty mouse heckle and heckle, fogger leghorn etc. But these silent ones I love more.
I watched this while listening to dubstep and it was very exciting.
Commonwealth distributed most of the silent Paul Terry "Terrytoons" for the 16mm "home movie" market [as they did the Van Beuren studio's library], and also leased them to TV in the '50s, using the Thomas J. Valentino music library as a "soundtrack" (the cue at 1:48 is familiar to anyone who listened to "Poisoned Arts" on WBAI-FM in New York in the '90s)..
Imagine being an unrealisticly realistic being character for a context ( which somehow says the true 💀) I like how this one is potrated tho 😮
I was waiting for the mice to run away with the house on their backs.
I distinctly remember 'Early Bird Cartoons'.
Whoo-hoo!
Juliaflo 9 year later are u still here..😇😇😇
Remember that music!
Four 16mm prints of these Commonwealth editions just sold on eBay. I was outbid on all four. Rats!
ah-Farmer Alfalfa i watched them on the first tv that was bought into the house-one of those ones with the round screens like a ship's porthole-remember the 1930s Krazy Kat cartoons? with the printed word balloons above the characters??
I remember my mom getting exasperated with us as.kids.and saying .if you have nothing to do , then go dig a hole TO CHINA. The end of this cartoon brought up an.old memory.the cat on the rock tunnelled to China.
@auntym2 IF you were from the nyc or surrounding area's in the late 1950's and 1960's ,we watched the same shows. Sandy Becker and all the rest ,a wonderful time to grow up. Tops and yoyos were big then too.
I remember when these were on Uncle Fred's Junior Frolics, a kiddie show with Uncle Fred Sayles as the MC! He was on WATV channel 13 out of Secaucus, NJ (now long long gone). Some of these cartoons could be a little on the dark side, as I recall, not ending on a happy note. Watched for hours in the '50s! Thanks for posting!
When channel 13 was sold for educational television (now known as public television), Fred Sayles went along as a staff announcer, staying there until he died.
LandondeeL There was also a short period of time before when they just planted the camera in front of a rolling teleprompter with the news. The played "elevator" type music and called it "Day Watch". Short lived before educational television kicked in. Thanks for responding!
Hey Model!
I used to watch Fred Sayles on our old Admiral when I was a kid in Newark. If you remember Uncle fred, you must remember Zacherle on Friday evenings. Even as a kid, I would laugh at his skits and always looking down into a barrel and say "Yesss, I know, me dear..."
Hi, Thanks for your response! I too was a Zacherle fan! He just passed away at age 98 in October! There are late interviews of him on youtube. I just watched one last night! What a coincidence.
Awsome .
I remember this one from 2007 and I watch it again in 2008, 2009 or 2010?
and btw that melody sound like film music in 1967.
omg..i had to be about four or five back when i saw this..that was in 1960 and 61
The title music is Komic Kapers by Roger Roger. The first theme is Thoroughfare by Roger Roger. At 1:43, it's Promenade by George Chase. I don't know the cue at 4:28. Love's Caprice by Roger Roger is the music 5:43 to 6:36. Mayfair Walk by Roger Roger takes up the rest of the cartoon,
Thanks for the titles of these Thomas J. Valentino classics. Do you happen to know the title of another familiar theme used throughout in these cartoons, and is second only to "Promenade" as my favorite? Uptempo, heavy on brass and bass drums: DA-DA-DA-DA-DA (BOOM-BOOM/BOOM-BOOM)
Landon, if you have a cartoon as an example, I can look around for it.
Yowp Yowp
I've been looking all over for it....maybe this will help: it always kicked in during scenes of danger or peril.
+Yowp Yowp im trying to find promenade on the internet, but no luck
How did you know?
good cartoon
A Terry Toon Cartoon! How great is that? Where's Farmer Grey?????
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@1952kid You are so right. Duncan yo-yos and tops, Matchbox cars, Lionel Trains, errector sets (stop laughing, you know what I mean) all that good stuff. A kid could build whole worlds in the den that would vanish at dinnertime only to be reconstructed the next rainy day. I feel sorry for today's kids. Where's my Bosco when I need it? Oh, yeah, it's right there on the shelf. Next to the CoCo Marsh and the box of vanilla Junket.....
Originally released in 1920, and was the third Aesop's Fable cartoon to be released.
@1952kid I remember seeing these weekday mornings on ABC7 out of New York along with Flip The Frog. Yeah, that's going back. Not as far back that I would remember 'Tommy Seven'. Great Sandy Becker blooper reel running around on youtube. Check it out if you can find it.
Several thousand used 16mm silent reels of the Commonwealth Paul Terry cartoons were sold off for home movie use in the 70's by Blackhawk Films of Davenport, Iowa, for around $3.50 each. For a while they were a fairly common item in the movie hobby, but just try and find one now! I really enjoy your videos.
I bought several of the Blackhawk Films Paul Terry's but they did not have the Commonwealth openings but just some kind of very generic titles. I still have them.
They used stock music in the background 'cos it didn't require royalties to be paid. But the musical choices included some classical, too, like 'Malaguena' and "Midsummer Night's Dream".
Soupys gone, the only ones alive are Zackerley ,Chuck McCann ,Sonny Fox as far as i know. I watched them all in Bellerose/ GlenOaks ,Ps186 ,MS 172 from 1954 - 1965 Then we moved.
Although I turned off the music the discussion of it was very interesting. The cartoon was fun and well worth watching. I can't help comparing it to other cat and/or mouse materials like Krazy Kat and Ignatz and Felix, and it fills in and adds to all of those ancient media materials in my memory, but it's nice on a standalone basis too.
I think the Farmer Alfalfa's or Al Falfa or Farmer Gray were on Sheriff John in the 50's in LA.
Well, maybe they were sold to some Panama's TV Channels, because I remember watching these cartoons all morning in the early 70s (here in Panama). I love many of these pieces and I wish I could identify them, or fin a recording with them. I can only identify one piece by Sousa, and one by Bizet.
Ah, yes. I seem to remember one of these cartoon where an endless supply of mice are streaming out of a faucet. They also run away with the house (with Farmer Grey and the cat in hot pursuit after them).
@1952kid I miss those days more than I can explain. I watched all the cartoons you mentioned. I'd love to go back and get out of this crap we live in now. It was a much better time. People were nicer and friendlier, and treated each other with respect and didn't use the "F" word in every sentence. Needless to say, television was superior. I hate the awful filth that is on today. We had comedies, dramas, cartoons, variety shows, music programs...all without cursing and today's garbage.
no se si alguien se acuerdade una un episodio de una serie donde el villano amarra a una chica a las vias del tren y el heroe la desata y se queda con la chica, es como un cliché
es las o menos de 1920
The music was from the Thomas J. Valentino library.
They used to have one add now two or more in a row
1920
I always thought that guy's name was Farmer Al Fa Fa. Or am I thinking of something else?
Both librries used on Clokey and HB shows. Also the Phil Green and Jack Shaindlin ones, whcih were absorbed to Capitol...and Sam Fox. (The Quick Draws among Hb were IMOP more enterprising in their selection contrasted with buck!)
Yeah, 1952kid, FHHS class of 1970 here. Did you forget Andy's Gang, and the late, grat Soupy Sales?
What's that one called where a female mouse gets kidnapped by a cat and then her boyfriend (who is also a mouse) saves her and then the two get married at the end? Although I do remember the moral was "All's well that ends well"
2020?:)
I saw them in New York City (my home). I guess you are older than I am because we saw them at around the same time.
@1952kid Those are my memories, too. (Uh-uh, don't figure out my age, LOLOLOL).
Happy Thanksgiving.
sabían que en esos tiempos (los años 1920s) las películas mudas estaban en un formato rollo de película? sabían o no?
That's what I used to call them! Did these cartoons show chase scenese with zillions of mice? I seem to remember something like that or zillions of bees making a scissor...FUN
Hey i have been looking for an old cartoon I used to watch when I was younger it had a squirell that would shoot watermelon seeds out of his mouth up in the air. It had music. I am 22 yrs old now and it was my favorite. Please if you think you know please tell me the name of it.
I am 12 but still find that the best cartoons are the old cartoons
@Juliaflo Ub Iwerks (yes, that's how it's spelled) worked for Disney for a while. He did some real quality animation. I remember his use of shading and depth of field, you don't get work like that anymore. I don't care what Pixar is doing. There's nothing that can replace pen, ink and celuloid...
I remember Flip The Frog. It was brought to us by Ub Iweks, who gave us a significant member of the rodent persuasion. (Pop quiz--Who he?)
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If anybody's trying to find the "Promenade" song on the internet, this is the only recording I've found of it th-cam.com/video/PbLp-PXrUgA/w-d-xo.html . It has to be my favorite track on this video.
2018?🙁🙁🙁🙁
@MisterScott99 Oh yes, Topper! And that English actor seemed to be everywhere you turned!
Of course I rememeber Claude Kirschner and Clownie! Didn't they advertise Cocomarsh? How about Sonny Fox and WONDERAMA? He became a bigtime TV executive.
......When Channel 13 was WNTA-TV, right?
1948 In Flipaclip?
It was the Modern Farmer, and I remember it.
(Uh-uh, don't figure out my age. LOL).
Juliaflo 9 years later are u still alive🤔🤔🤔🤔
Not so bad black and white cartoon.
How do I save this video?
@puck30 I remember Tommy Seven. (Uh-uh, don't figure out my age, although I just reached a milestone).
Cat is a chump
Is this like the first ever episode of tom and jerry?
@auntym2 I certainly do. I suppose this gives away our ages, but I will only say I am 21-plus.
Here's wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.
Juliaflo 7 years later you would be 28 years +...how is life!😂😂😂😂
1920...
2019??
Excuse me. What exactly is a "needle drop?"
Clutch Cargo and those weird mouths moving gave me bad dreams!
Japan had a long run with a b/w dog named Norakuro which started in the 30s. v=e1SoFKpZN1k