Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York

1916 Animation Directed by Paul Terry

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About Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York

Farmer Al Falfa arrives in New York with a money bag. A crook sends a woman after him. In a restaurant she gets him drunk and drops him with knockout drops, then runs when the bag is not what she expected. Outside, drunk, he walks into a lamppost. A second sharper pulls him into a crooked card game. He still has a trick the city men have not counted on.

Cast & crew

More about Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York

Paul Terry directed the silent cartoon. John Randolph Bray produced it. It is also called Farmer Al Falfa in New York. The character's series had started the year before, after a pilot short.

Themes

  • A money bag in the city
  • Knockout drops at the restaurant
  • A lamppost and a crooked game
  • Farmer Al Falfa
  • New York
  • knockout drops
  • money bag
  • poker
  • lamppost
  • Bray Productions

Music

Silent. No composer is credited.

Preservation

A print is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The other players at the poker table are trying to cheat him.
  • Some prints spell the name Farmer Alfalfa.
  • Terry left Bray later and in 1929 started Terrytoons.

Scenes

  • The woman lays him out in the restaurant and flees when she opens the bag.
  • Drunk, he stops to get acquainted with a lamppost.
  • A second crook hauls him into the card game.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Farmer Alfalfa Sees New York (1916).webm)

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