Dinner Time (1928) is an American animated short subject produced by Amadee J.
The film is part of a series entitled Aesop's Fables and features the Terry creation Farmer Al Falfa who works as a butcher, fending off a group of pesky dogs.
It premiered at the Strand Theater New York City in August 1928 and was released by Pathé Exchange on October 14, a month before Walt Disney's sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie.
[2] Dinner Time was not successful with audiences and Disney's film would be widely touted as the first synchronized sound cartoon.
The voice actors spoke the characters' lines, as opposed to the nonsense vocalisations made in the original 1928 version.