Tweet Exciting Bray Animation Project news

Howdy All,

Here is the general news... http://brayanimation.weebly.com/discuss ... b-1457113/

But specifically: "This marks the completion of the Farmer Alfalfa series in this collection, in film print and HD form. The series has probably not been fully united in any collection, including Bray's, for over 75 years."

Years ago I might never have thought it would be possible to reunite an entire series from the 1910s. Sure, there is plenty of work left to do to gather all of Terry's subsequent 1920s output, but this is exciting and uplifting news from an archivist's and researcher's standpoint.

I'm proud to share this news with all of you here and hope to announce more fun things related to the Bray project in the near future.

Tom Stathes

Tom, A well deserved "Congratulations". I know that you have been working very hard on the project. Great news.

Steve Joyce

To be honest I haven't seen many Farmer AlfAlfa's but I know that's a significant milepost in animation. Good work!

I just came across this news. Congrats Tom!

Thanks guys! There's always been a LOT of corresponding (and not to mention funds, which I'm terribly short on) involved in getting this stuff together. It's definitely a labor of love. Hope to share more news in the near future but in the meantime, work will commence on getting more prints of other subjects here for the collection.

Congratulations Tom! It is very exciting news indeed and I look forward to the day when all will be available for viewing under one roof.

The first time I remember hearing about Farmer Alfalfa was from my stepdad, who grew up in New Jersey watching cartoons on New York television. He said, "Those Farmer Alfalfa cartoons are older than the hills." It is amazing to me that you have managed to gather the oldest of all the various hills he traversed.

spadeneal

Congratulations Tom! It is very exciting news indeed and I look forward to the day when all will be available for viewing under one roof.

The first time I remember hearing about Farmer Alfalfa was from my stepdad, who grew up in New Jersey watching cartoons on New York television. He said, "Those Farmer Alfalfa cartoons are older than the hills." It is amazing to me that you have managed to gather the oldest of all the various hills he traversed.

spadeneal

Thanks so much, spadeneal. I will definitely be doing something with these cartoons and when the time comes, I hope to reach as many of the older baby boomers (as well as any other kind of fan or scholar) as possible who would be interested in seeing these.

I think an array of people would support this, even though the character hasn't been remembered quite as well as his contemporaries. The Farmer did have nearly a 50 year career between production of new cartoons and then broadcasts of the silents and soundies well into the 60s. Someone has even told me that the silent Aesop's Fables were being broadcast in Puerto Rico in the early 1970s when TV stations in the 50 states no longer had any use for such old b/w filler.