This cartoon is almost 100 years old. If you notice how far we've come from those days, I can't picture what it'll be like 100 years from now.

Hard to believe these were the cartoons I watched as a child in the 50's. I use to watch these before going to school, I loved them.

I'm 75 and also enjoyed this!😂 Koko the clown was another favorite 😂😂!!

The main happy music piece that starts about 1:25 is called “Sellenger’s Round”, or alternatively “The Beginning of the World”, and it’s a famous morris dance tune. Recorded on a number of morris albums, especially those by the Albion Dance Band. I remembered it all these years from when I was 5 or 6. It’s one of my favorites and it is available on iTunes by numerous artists.

Watched Farmer Gray as a kid in the '50s on Channel 13 (NYC area). Funny then and even funnier now. Brings back good times!

OH YEAH!!! Just for shits & giggles I did a search for this...didn't expect to find anything - surprised when I did to find out these cartoons were at least 22 years older than I am...Wonderful memories...some of these cartoons can be found on Netflix also...did a search for The Merry Mailman - I can STILL sing the theme song at 63!!!

I know it silent and all, but it is somewhat amusing. You sit down watching a silent cartoon and you cant stop watching them!

Like others here, I watched Paul Terry cartoons on television during the early 50's in NYC. I'm thinking it was channel 13 and the program was Uncle Fred's Cartoon Frolics. A man in a suit surrounded by kids sitting in the gallery. The music for any of the cartoons was a medley of maybe 5 selections - always the same music.

Some of these early Paul Terry cartoons ran on local TV when I was a kid (and I ain't no kid anymore) with different music, from a distributor called Stuart Productions. Loved 'em then and it's great to see them again. Paul Terry was one of the greatest pioneers of animation, and of course went on to start Terrytoons and create Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle.

In. 1960 l was 5 years old I used to watch this cartoons Hours and hours Now in 2020 and thanks to Internet l still watching Paul Terry cartoons 60 years later wow amazing

As a kid in Montreal, (b. 1947), these were the only cartoons we had on TV - no Looney Tunes, etc. I remember the music, especially the selections by, I believe, Bizet.

I like this cartoon animation, a great cartoon.

These surreal cartoons are overflowing with tiny details, like the duck mannered opening and closing of doors or the way he backs out to the wall after being nearly drowned, and has amusing bits like the dog prodding the farmer with a back leg for some petting, much to the farmer's annoyance. The catchy music, as usual, doesn't match the action, making them eerier and quirkier and funnier. Unlike the digital-age cartoons, which get old very quickly, these black and white, hard-lined animations are so simple and so matter-of-fact they seem ageless and often nearly futuristic. They don't overstay their welcome, either.

Almost 100 years old! Still better than the crap they have for today’s kids. With the exception of Sponge Bob! I’m 61 and still love cartoons ❤️

By the way, a close friend of mine used to work for Valentino's Studios in NYC and he always used to tell me that they owned the license to the stock music used in the cartoons. Valentinos moved to New Jersey a number of years ago and then closed down for good.

Those old cartoons are fun to watch. They outta be preserved for generations to come.

Wowwwww! Can't believe I found this. I'd watch this in the 50's after Modern Farmer on the weekends Can't find Modern Farmer clips anywhere. Thank you for posting this.

The best Cartoons ever!

I am just a little bit over halfway through this cartoon now, and I wonder if I'm eventually going to find out why the heck that goose or whatever keeps going through trap doors in Farmer Gray's house............... I mean, how surreal can you get?!

I remember watching these videos on my grandfather's tiny black and white console. Wonderful - and still funny!

Reliving my 1950s pre-K life. Thanks for this. :-))

I remember the music as being from Offenbach et al. Getting ready for grammar school in the 50's it was my introduction to classical music

Another viewing of this great cartoon. It looks kind of primitive but it manages to create a nice cartoonishness that really works. And the story just gets better and better as it goes along. Farmer Gray's real and true name is Farmer Al Falfa. I forget the story but the name change was some kind of short lived tv rechristening, but he's Farmer Al.

Great cartoon with plenty of funny, surreal bits. My favorite one comes at 7:27 which is so unexpected I exploded with laughter. The music is wonderful.

And they lived happily ever after.

These were some of the first cartoons I ever saw and I'm 73 years old!

Growing up in Brooklyn during the 50's and 60's, I recall that one of the NYC TV stations ran these cartoons in the early morning, soon after the station went back on air. later on they were played very late at night before the station went off the air and into test pattern mode.

I love all the music in this! Especially the piece at 0:32 I wish I could track down the pieces names so I could listen to them at will.

Wonderful.

Thanks for the info. I grew up in Puerto Rico and I watched plenty of them. I remember liking the cheesey music. Thanx por posting it.

Wishing to relive my happy childhood a bit in the 1970's I reached out to Thomas J Valentino, Inc. who used to be a notable soundtrack music licensor and I found out that they did license out selections from their film music library to the Commonwealth production of the Paul Terry Aesop's Fables for striping them with music. Adding he music cues was poorly done with the music often not matching the action in any meaningful way but as kids did we know any better. I realize now how much a child's brain can store as these music themes seem like I heard them only yesterday and are indelibly burned into my mind. By the way the program I saw these cartoons on was Early Bird Cartoons on WABC channel 7 in NYC. Must have been from around 1958 until around 1963 when they vanished forever from channel 7. They were the first thing on the air after the sign-on as I recall. Over the years I have searched for these genuine Commonwealth Terrytoons only to find the silent cartoons but with a different soundtrack music that did not match my vivid memories of these cartoons. Let me know if anyone ever comes up with the original Commonwealth Aesop's Fables as made for TV in the 1950's.

Strange cartoon, and I am not sure they were trying.. The characters, especially that mouse looked great, everything a toon should be. That goose butler may be an ancestor of Gandy Goose. I remember these old Farmer Al Falfa cartoons from watching tv in LA back in the 50s on Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade. I never much liked Farmer Al Falfa, but lately I am developing a real fondness for these old Terry toons.

That duck butler was a real money grubber! 😆

0:12 i finally found the name of that background name, and that name is "Rustic Flirtation" of Roger Roger

I enjoyed them as a kid in a way I can't enjoy them now.

Thanks rockchicknyc

A lot of commenters here had the same experience as I had, but I'll comment anyway to increase the comment count. In the early 60's as a youngster, I, too, woke up at the crack of Dawn, after the test pattern ended and the National Anthem played against the waving flag on the flagpole, I watched these cartoons. I recall the music to be entertaining/soothing but don't remember the melodies. I do remember my favorite being when the farmer forced a mouse to be the engine in his car and put it under the hood of his car, and when the farmer arrived at his destination the farmer looked under the hood and found a muscle bound mouse who punched the farmer into the horizon Ha!

Estas comicas yo las veias con mis hermanos las pasbamos bien entrenidos

Me, too!

Oh, for the days when there were only seven TV channels. Or six. Or four. Depending on where you lived.

0:12 Music: Rustic Flirtation - Roger Roger

I fully agree with Videostunad and Frritz, more please. :)

90vo aniversario!!! Wow!! 😉😎

Can somebody tell me the name of the second, third, and fourth songs in this cartoon please, like after the opening sequence song?

Where did you find this? I loved the ones with this soundtrack. I know it was added for TV viewing in the 50's and 60's

The music came from a production library in New York, Valentino Music. THey are still in business, supplying music and sound effects for TV shows and commercials.

Classic

Please ....Somebody knows the name of the intro music?

who can explain what is the video about?

In Panamá also

I remember these and so weird. - I da NERD

I thought this was Farmer Brown. Was the cartoon called Farmer Gray or Farmer Brown?

The lively tune at 1:25 was a seafaring song, which was popular in the 1950s, since Queen Elizabeth was to have a Royal Navy man, Prince Philip, as her consort.

Somebody touched my sphaget!!

I'm not that old !

Exploração. Cárcere privado . 😁

Any here because of the"somebody toucha my spaghett!" meme?

See my reply to Ron E.

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