Dinner Time

Dinner Time (1928)
Paul Terry and John Foster

Dinner Time was one of the first publicly shown sound-on-film cartoons. It premiered at the Strand Theater New York City in August 1928 and was released by Pathé Exchange on October 14, 1928, a month before Walt Disney's sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie. Dinner Time was not successful with audiences and Disney's film would be widely touted as the first synchronized sound cartoon.

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Cast and Crew
Crew
Production company	Fables Studio
Distributor	Pathé
Director	Paul Terry (d. 1971)
Producer	Paul Terry, Amadee J. Van Beuren (d. 1938)
Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1971, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 52 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States.

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4396232Dinner Time1928Paul Terry and John Foster

Fables Pictures, Inc.
presents
Dinner Time
by Paul Terry & John Foster
Æsop's
Film
Fables
Copyrighted by the Van Beuren Company

Pathé distributors

RCA Photophone
Synchronization
by
Josiah Zuro

Effects by
Max H. Manne

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Cat
Meow!

Birds
Haha!

1. 2. 3. [...]

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Sniff

Tall dog
Hahahahahaha! Hahahaha!

Poodle
Grr!

Tall dog
Hahahahahaha!

Two dogs
Rrr!

RRRRRRRRRRR

Farmer Alfalfa
Hey!

Farmer Alfalfa
Hey! Hey!

Farmer Alfalfa
What's going on?

Butcher
Alarm For Dog Pound

ZZZZZZZZZZ

Public Dog Pound Rules

Public Dog Pound

Dog pounder
Giddy up!

Dog pounder
What is the matter?

Dog pounder
Go!

Dog pounder
Giddy up! Giddy up!

Dog pounder
Giddy up!

!!!!

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Butcher

Æsop's
Fables
sugar coated pills of wisdom

Presented by
The Van Beuren Corporation

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1928, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.

Copyright law abroad tends to consider the following people authors of a film:

The principal director
The screenwriter, and/or other writers of dialogue
The composer/lyricist (if the film is accompanied by sound)
The cinematographer
By extension, the authors of any works that may serve as the basis for a film's plot

The longest-living of these authors died in 1971, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 52 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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