Snapping the Whip

Name: Snapping the Whip
Director: Frank Moser
Genre: Comedy, Animation
Released: 1929
Duration: 7 min

1929 Comedy Animation 7 minutes Directed by Frank Moser

About Snapping the Whip

A cat on roller skates leads farmer Al Falfa on a chase. The cat then puts skates on Al Falfa. He rolls straight into a dog who is working as a traffic cop.

Cast & crew

Frank Moser Director

More about Snapping the Whip

Paul Terry and Harry Bailey directed it for the Aesop's Fables series. Amadee J. Van Beuren produced it. Pathé released it in the United States on 6 January 1929.

Themes

A cat on skates
A farmer who cannot stop
A dog in a traffic uniform
Al Falfa
roller skates
cat
traffic cop
Aesop's Fables
Harry Bailey

Making

Bailey's gag is one pair of skates passed from the cat to the farmer, and then a cop.

Preservation

A Commonwealth print runs 6 minutes 55 seconds.

Notes

The cat is the one who starts on skates.
The cop at the end is a dog.
It sits in the Aesop's Fables series between Break of Day and Wooden Money.
Farmer Al Falfa is the man on the skates.

Scenes

The cat skates ahead of Al Falfa.
Skates go onto the farmer's feet.
He rolls into the dog cop.

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (Paul Terry and Harry Bailey - Aesop's Fables - Snapping the Whip (1929) (Commonwealth print).webm)