“A Cat’s Life“ Terrytoon with Farmer Gray

1920’s silent cartoon by Paul Terry, starring Farmer Al Falfa (also known as Farmer Grey). A stock music soundtrack was added in the 1950s for television. I’m sure the person who picked the needle drops for these cartoons’ stock music had no idea how powerfully his work would affect so many children, now grown up. In 1971 I wrote to WABC TV channel 7 in New York to inquire about these cartoons. This was their answer: “The silent cartoons which were shown on WABC-TV some years ago were obtained at t