Jack, the versions I saw of Tuning In and Mill Pond did not contain the logo that can be seen in the bottom right-hand corner of every cartoon published by the Cartoon On Film channel, so your accusations against Tommy Stathes are completely untrue since he could never have issued copyright warnings for copies of films that don't belong to him.

I don't understand how you can denigrate Tommy when he's done such a superb job of preserving and distributing silent cartoons, especially Terry's Aesop's Fables series, and especially if it's to redirect me to the Farmer Al Falfa channel, a rather malicious person who still sought to have Tommy's channel removed from what I understand.

The only crook I see here is you and nobody else!

Thanks! Frankly I have no interest in discussing the topic here; this particular thread has had a lot of intellectual conversation about the Fables from some of the folks here and its been nice to keep it mostly that way. That said, I also will not tolerate any straight up lying, especially someone whose seemingly joined the forum just to do it

That said, if you guys want, I can share MILL POND as I have the Garage Sale transfer. Missing moral, though I may of seen it from another print with a VB Fable moral attached to it

It would be great if you could publish Mill Pond, as it's been a long time since I've seen it.

This is only temporary but here it is. I don't have the Garage Sale transfer of TUNING IN.... somebody definitely does. This one is quite weak for the early sound Fables, not really trying to do anything with sound and feeling too slow when it does try. No moral but I may of seen the moral for this cartoon on another print from a different silent series, oddly. Let me know what you all think

This is only temporary but here it is. I don't have the Garage Sale transfer of TUNING IN.... somebody definitely does. This one is quite weak for the early sound Fables, not really trying to do anything with sound and feeling too slow when it does try. No moral but I may of seen the moral for this cartoon on another print from a different silent series, oddly. Let me know what you all think

Indeed, this cartoon is really very boring and it's perhaps the weakest VB cartoon I've seen so far, the only good gag being the one about the question mark jumping off the diving board, however it's a nice surprise to see that your copy of the film is of very good quality, much better than the one I saw a long time ago.

I also particularly liked the catchy theme music, do you know what it's called?

Hopefully I'm not to far off topic here but this seems to be a good thread to add this info. On January 1 at 6:30 AM, the Family Movie Classics channel currently has listed Cartoon Classics: Aesop's Fables. There aren't any listings of which cartoons and I have no clue if this is a one time thing or ongoing.. Family Movie Classics is on Direct TV, not sure where else. If it actually ends up showing I'll come back and add the titles shown.

The cartoons shown on Family Movie Classics channel were:
Custard Pies
The Cat's Canary
Noah Knew His Ark
The Jungle Fool

Quality wasn't very good but it was cool to see a channel broadcasting them. No other cartoons on their schedule for the next week but maybe more will show up at some point.

Actually, the Iron Man (Jan 4, 1930) is not Farmer Alfalfa last major role in a Van Beuren Aesop Fables. Ship Ahoy (January, 1930) and The Sky Skippers (February, 1930) both were released after The Iron Man and both feature Farmer Alfalfa as the main character. Unlike The Iron Man there is just more info about than Ship Ahoy and The Sky Skippers. Ship Ahoy being a 1930 released is contested even though there is another Aesop Fables cartoon called Ship Ahoy from 1928, the "1930" Ship Ahoy doesn't have a soundtrack nor a year listed on the video. The soundtrack in Ship Ahoy was added by a youtuber from Western Whoopee (1930). The Sky Skippers is the true last Van Beuren appearance of Farmer Alfalfa, even though similar looking characters would appear in Aesop Fables shorts afterwards such as Noah Knew His Ark (1930)

In fact, The Iron Man movie has recently been found

This is incredibly misleading for the fact this, like just about all Van Beuren cartoons, has never been lost, available in 16mm since the shorts were first made, issued on DVD more than once. Heck, I have it on 16mm too. Be careful with phrasing something as “lost”; it should only be used if it doesn’t exist entirely

Excuse me, I misspoke.

I just meant that the cartoon was released on YouTube very recently (in 2020) but I wasn't talking about the film itself.

In any case, this film remains memorable as it was the last cartoon centered on the Farmer Alfalfa produced by Van Beuren just before Paul Terry took over the rights to the character.

The Iron Man isn't the last Farmer Alfalfa Van Beuren cartoon. Ship Ahoy was released a week later and The Sky Skippers a month later. Both have Farmer Alfalfa as the main character.

Actually, the Iron Man (Jan 4, 1930) is not Farmer Alfalfa last major role in a Van Beuren Aesop Fables. Ship Ahoy (January, 1930) and The Sky Skippers (February, 1930) both were released after The Iron Man and both feature Farmer Alfalfa as the main character. Unlike The Iron Man there is just more info about than Ship Ahoy and The Sky Skippers. Ship Ahoy being a 1930 released is contested even though there is another Aesop Fables cartoon called Ship Ahoy from 1928, the "1930" Ship Ahoy doesn't have a soundtrack nor a year listed on the video. The soundtrack in Ship Ahoy was added by a youtuber from Western Whoopee (1930). The Sky Skippers is the true last Van Beuren appearance of Farmer Alfalfa, even though similar looking characters would appear in Aesop Fables shorts afterwards such as Noah Knew His Ark (1930)

You're absolutely right, it's a mistake that's often repeated and is probably due to the fact that THE IRON MAN has been more widely circulated on TV and is now much better known than the other two films.

The same mistake was made for the character's first appearance at Terrytoon, where many people cited CLUB SANDWICH as his first cartoon, when in fact it was FRENCH FRIED (1930) (even though the farmer had made a brief appearance in the promotional cartoon THE FAMILY ALBUM released earlier the same year).