Editing Terrytoons (section)

=== Pre-Terrytoons era ===
[[Image: River of Doubt.jpg|thumb|Farmer Al Falfa in "River of Doubt" (1927)]]
Terry first worked for [[Bray Productions|Bray Studios]] in 1916, where he created the [[Farmer Al Falfa]] series. He would then make a Farmer Al Falfa short for [[Edison Studios|Edison Pictures]], called "Farmer Al Falfa's Wayward Pup" (1917), and some later cartoons were made for [[Paramount Pictures]].

Around 1921, Terry founded the Fables animation studio, named for its ''[[Aesop's Film Fables]]'' series, in conjunction with the studio of [[Amedee J. Van Beuren]]. Fables churned out a Fable cartoon every week for eight years in the 1920s.

In 1928, Van Beuren, anxious to compete with the new phenomenon of [[talking picture]]s, released Terry's ''[[Dinner Time (cartoon)|Dinner Time]]'' (released October 1928). Van Beuren then urged Terry to start producing actual sound films, instead of post-synchronizing the cartoons. Terry refused, and Van Beuren fired him in 1929. Almost immediately, Terry and much of his staff started up the Terrytoons studio near his former studio. One staff member during that time was [[Art Babbitt]], who went on to become a well-known Disney animator.