Farmer Al Falfa is playing poker with an ostrich down in Africa, while a robotic mouse frightens off a robotic elephant in this technocratic nightmare from Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables studio.
Although I am used to the "story" in Terry's silent cartoons being little more than mechanisms to link one gag to the next, this one makes me imagine there's a tremendous amount of backstory that has been cut out, reducing this one from uncut-GREED length to less than six minutes. What is Al Falfa doing in Africa? (well, he appeared in a lot of different places doing a lot of different things, because he was a stock character) Why a robotic mouse and elephant? (Why not?)
The IMDb offers Jerry Shields as the director of this one. It's far more likely he was one of the lead animators.
Although I am used to the "story" in Terry's silent cartoons being little more than mechanisms to link one gag to the next, this one makes me imagine there's a tremendous amount of backstory that has been cut out, reducing this one from uncut-GREED length to less than six minutes. What is Al Falfa doing in Africa? (well, he appeared in a lot of different places doing a lot of different things, because he was a stock character) Why a robotic mouse and elephant? (Why not?)
The IMDb offers Jerry Shields as the director of this one. It's far more likely he was one of the lead animators.
