Green Pastures

Name: Green Pastures
Director: Joseph Sunn
Released: 1926

1926 Directed by Joseph Sunn

About Green Pastures

A clay horse keeps finding better grass in the next yard. The neighbors are not pleased.

Cast & crew

Joseph Sunn Director

More about Green Pastures

Joseph Sunn, a Chinese American animator in San Francisco, made this stop-motion clay short in 1926 as part of the 'Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff' series. The Public Domain Review pairs it with The Penwiper from the same series, via the Prelinger Archives.

Themes

A horse and a fence line
Better grass next door
clay animation
horse
grass
neighbors
Joseph Sunn

Look

Stop-motion clay, one frame at a time.

Preservation

A print is in the Prelinger collection and was published by the Public Domain Review.

Notes

The figure is clay, moved a frame at a time.
It belongs with The Penwiper and Long Live the Bull in Sunn's 1926 mud films.
The title is not the 1936 feature of the same name.

Scenes

The clay horse leans into the neighboring yard for the greener grass.