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2021-01-24T07:38:52Z
Jacques Haïk was a French film producer, who moved to Paris finding work in the film industry. In his early days, he licensed Charlie Chaplin comedies for the French audiences, and eventually (big gulp!) Paul Terry's Terry-Toons from Audio-Cinema. He must have liked these in particular enough to distribute them, or they were the only cartoon comedies he could negotiate.

These appear to span only between the first two seasons of Terry-Toons; after the second season (1931-1932), the production contract was renegotiated to a deal between Fox Film and Educational Pictures, with Fox handling all international releases there. This is probably one of the most useless documentation attempts of all time, but it's best that such a thread is made anyway for documentation's sake.
Thanks to the [accidental] work that arte had done with Cartoon Factory, a few of these titles can now be confirmed. Whether any other papers detailing the work Jacques had done licensing from these Terry-Toons can be found are probably gone with the wind. My research has been centered mainly on newspapers.

Note: the thread may expand to documenting international releases of other cartoons-- the history behind them is rather interesting.
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Caviar - Placide moujik
Pretzels - Placide amoureux
Spanish Onions - Placide toréador
Indian Pudding - ?
Roman Punch - ?
Hot Turkey - Placide au serail
Hawaiian Pineapples - Placide aviateur
Swiss Cheese - ?
Codfish Balls - Placide et la baleine?
Hungarian Goulash - Placide boheme
Bully Beef - Placide s'en va-t-en guerre
Kangaroo Steak - ?
Monkey Meat - ?
Chop Suey - Les chinoiseries de Placide
French Fried - ?
Dutch Treat - ?
Irish Stew - ?
Fried Chicken - ?
Jumping Beans - ?
Scotch Highball - ?
Salt Water Taffy - Placide marin
Golf Nuts - Placide aux enfers
Pigskin Capers - ?
Popcorn - Un jour de fete
Club Sandwich - ?
Razzberries - ?

Go West, Big Boy - ?
Quack, Quack - ?
The Explorer - ?
Clowning - Placide dompteur?
Sing, Sing Prison - ?
The Fireman's Bride - Placide pompier?
The Sultan's Cat - ?
A Day to Live - ?
2000 B.C. - ?
Blues - ?
By the Sea - ?
Her First Egg - ?
Jazz Mad - ?
Canadian Capers - ?
Jesse and James - ?
The Champ - ?
Around the World - ?
Jingle Bells - ?
The Black Spider - ?
China - ?
The Lorelei - ?
Summertime - ?
Aladdin's Lamp - ?
The Villain's Curse - ?
Noah's Outing - ?
The Spider Talks - ?

Listed titles that are hard to provide possible matches/are very ambiguous in context
Les prouesses de Placide ("A Day to Live?")
Placide chasse au désert (Closest title is "Go West, Big Boy.")
Placide gaucho (Maybe "Jumping Beans.")
Placide cow-boy (Very ambiguous, maybe "Jesse and James" or "Indian Pudding.")
Placide sur le missouri ("Fried Chicken?")
Placide s'évade ("Sing Sing Prison?")
Placide outsider (???)
Placide resquilleur (???)

Completely unknown if part of the package, extracted from Elysee-Enchantily's sponsor blocks in "Le courrier de l'oise," in which they seemed to be the advertiser of the Placide films... along with Krazy Kats and Felixes, so some of these titles may rather be them:
Teddy fermier - ???
Teddy pecheur - ???
La maison des mille pattes - ???
La pêche miraculeuse - ???
C'est l'hiver - "Jingle Bells?"
Parade des haricots - "Jumping Beans?" Maybe just another Krazy Kat.
Krazy Kat Fermier - Krazy Kat, probably "Farm Relief."
Séduction d’Honoîulu - probably Krazy Kat, "Honolulu Wilies."
Le miaou du chat- probably Krazy Kat, "The Cat's Meow."
Jazz Rythme - probably Krazy Kat, "Jazz Rhythm."

From "Theatre Municipal de Sealis," which also seemed to have picked up the Placide films. En canot shows up in Varieties spots, however, which doesn't to have picked up any Placide films, so none of these might actually be Jacques-Haik Terry releases to begin with:
Fou coassant - ???
En canot - ???
Auberge des fantomes - ???
Zut, avocat - ???