Aesop's Movie Fables: Cartoons, Stories, Song, Laughs, Morals, Fun, Movie Flips

Title

en_US Aesop's Movie Fables: Cartoons, Stories, Song, Laughs, Morals, Fun, Movie Flips

Description

en_US Van Beuren Corporation, NY

Creator

en_US Aesop

Contributor

en_US Donnelly, Ed

Date

2016-01-25T16:29:48Z

en_US 1999-04

en_US 1931

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:29:48Z

Date Issued

en_US 1931

Abstract

en_US Pages 9-10 of 16 are missing in this large-format three-color delight with some illustration on all but one page and a full-page illustration on the front and back covers, the inside-back cover, and 1, 8, and 13. I do not know what the Movie Flips are that are advertised on the bottom of the cover. There are three original fables, aimed clearly at supporting adult authority. In The Cheese (2) Milton Mouse bets that he can eat a whole wheel of cheese, and Big Brother Mouse holds him to his boast. Milton ends up sick and trapped in the hole he has created in the cheese. Milton cannot appear the next day at the Aesop's Movie Fable Studio, and so his understudy Walter Mouse replaces him. Milton, as Big Brother's note explains, bit off more than he could chew. In The Lesson Squeaky, the pig, boasts that he knows all the lessons. In a not very logical attempt to make the challenge fit the boast, Don Dog, the teacher, teaches Squeaky not to boast by making him carry a gold-fish bowl on his head. The goldfish's expression (7) is one of the best artistic features of the book! Another great feature throughout lies in the initials, e.g., the three mice on 11. Mothers Know Best (11) is simple: Tiny Bear does not want to eat all his hot cereal before a serious day out in the cold weather. The full-page cartoon on 13 turns a hippo's lower teeth into piano keys being played by a monkey in top-hat. A long piece of music, Aesop And His Funny Fables, occupies 14-16. The basic fiction behind the stories is that there is a movie studio producing Aesop's fables, and the animals comprise the talent and the artists. The back cover illustrates the studio. In my years of collecting I had never known that such a series of booklets or films existed. Were any such movies produced? Now how large might the series of either booklets or films have been?

Identifier

en_US 3112 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78515

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Sonnet Publishing Co.

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ8.2.A254 Aes 1931

en_US Van Beuren

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole