"Dinner Time" (English: Dinner Time) is an American animated short film released in 1928, produced by Amadee J. Van Beuren, directed by Paul Terry, with John Foster as co-director, and produced by Van Beuren Studios. Josiah Zuro arranged and conducted the "synchronized" score. The film is part of the "Aesop's Film Fables" series, primarily telling the story of a farmer named Al Falfa created by Terry, who is a butcher tasked with defending against a group of troublesome dogs. "Dinner Time" is one of the earliest publicly screened sound cartoons in history. It premiered in August 1928 at the Strand Theatre in New York City and was officially released by Pathé Exchange on October 14, 1928, one month earlier than Walt Disney's sound animation "Steamboat Willie." "Dinner Time" did not gain much popularity among audiences; instead, Disney's film was widely welcomed and is considered by many to be the first broadly recognized synchronized sound cartoon.