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.
It's actually fairly good for the year it was made, which is a pretty sour indictment of the primitive state of the animation industry that year, but be fair. Despite brilliant early work by Emile Cohl, animation was still building up its tools and this quarter-animated (by modern standards) cartoon is decently constructed with gags in the right places. They are not particularly funny to me, but I smoke a pipe myself.
It's actually fairly good for the year it was made, which is a pretty sour indictment of the primitive state of the animation industry that year, but be fair. Despite brilliant early work by Emile Cohl, animation was still building up its tools and this quarter-animated (by modern standards) cartoon is decently constructed with gags in the right places. They are not particularly funny to me, but I smoke a pipe myself.
