2005 The Golden Age of Cartoons: Aesop's Fables: Cartoon Classics from the Van Beuren Studio, Volume 1. Thunderbean Animation. DVD reprint of cartoons from 1930 through 1933.
There are, as in Volume 2, sixteen "Aesop's Fables" cartoons on this DVD. There are also engaging bonus features, including, for example, a side by side comparison of a sequence from "Toy Time" with an earlier cartoon. I tried "Gypped in Egypt" and "The Farmerette" and found them fun but harmless. I had trouble accessing a number of the bonus materials.
1973 The Golden 1973 Aesop's Fables Calendar. Pictures by Mel Crawford. A Golden Calendar. NY: Western Publishing Co., Inc. Gift of Barb Markuson, Glenwood, Iowa, April, '15. Extra copy in poorer condition for $6.99 from Leah Fowler, Edgewood, MD, through Ebay, March, '99.
Very lively cartoon presentations of a dozen fables with surprisingly good morals. Thus in DS we learn "The greedy man cheats himself" and in CJ "A thing is good only if it is good for you." FM is unusual in having the fox frightened by the mask because it "looked so real." The moral here is "There is nothing emptier than an empty head." After the months, we have another page of fables titled "Animal Antics." There is also an account of the story of Aesop's life.A page`of 141 little tear-along-the-perforation stickers closes out the calendar.
1972? The Funny Fables of Kenneth Patchen. Read by Kenneth Patchen. Palo Alto: Green Tree Records. 101 (20415). Unknown source.
I am happy to find this 33 LPM recording because Patchen is one of the craziest fabulists I have read! After trying his Aflame and Afun of Walking Faces: Fables and Drawings, I wrote “Should we blame Patchen's work on Joyce? On drugs? I see here largely a category-smashing linguistic virtuosity.” The album’s cover here follows the same thread: “To give some notion of the Fables, imagine Mark Twain and Leopardi collaborating on a script for the Marx Brothers to act out the birth of a world – by no means necessarily this one!” The seven fables listed here do not seem to work off of traditionally known fables.
