Aesop’s Fables – The 1920s Vol. 1

2,600 years ago, Aesop said… Long before Paul Terry found success with Mighty Mouse, he spent the 1920s producing the Aesop’s Fables series starring his original character Farmer Al Falfa and an endless cast of violent, funny animals. Loosely connected to those ancient tales and bookended with a “sugar-coated pill of wisdom,” the cartoons were an all-encompassing umbrella of new dynamics and concepts. In Aesop’s Fables – The 1920s, Volume 1, Cartoon Logic has meticulously assembled and restored 20 Paul Terry cartoons giving the animation pioneer his first high-definition silent film collection, and showcasing why Walt Disney once said he had hoped to one day make animated shorts as good as Aesop’s Fables. Sourced from the best surviving elements archived at Blackhawk Films, Volume 1 features cartoons ranging from the birth of the series in 1921, to 1928’s Dinner Time (the first theatrical cartoon with synchronized sound ever released). Each sh