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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) is a theatrical film starring Rocky and Bullwinkle. It was a mix of live-action with Rocky and Bullwinkle appearing as computer-animated cartoon characters created by Industrial Light & Magic. June Foray returned to voice Rocky, while Bullwinkle was voiced by Keith Scott.
Aesop (left) as depicted by Francis Barlow in the 1687 edition of Aesop's Fables with His Life. Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern ...
A Close Call is a 1929 animated short film which is part of the early sound cartoon series entitled Aesop's Sound Fables. It was produced by The Van Beuren Corporation and released by Pathé . [1]
Aesop (/ ˈ iː s ɒ p / EE-sop or / ˈ eɪ s ɒ p / AY-sop; Greek: Αἴσωπος, Aísōpos; formerly rendered as Æsop) is an almost certainly legendary Greek fabulist and storyteller, said to have lived c. 620–564 BCE, and credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables.
Francis Barlow's illustration of the fable, 1687. The Boy Who Cried Wolf is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 210 in the Perry Index. From it is derived the English idiom "to cry wolf", defined as "to give a false alarm" in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and glossed by the Oxford English Dictionary as meaning to make false claims, with the result that subsequent true claims are disbelieved.
The Fox and the Crow (Aesop) A 19th century Minton tile illustrating the fable. The Fox and the Crow is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 124 in the Perry Index. There are early Latin and Greek versions and the fable may even have been portrayed on an ancient Greek vase. [1] The story is used as a warning against listening to flattery.
The Fir and the Bramble. The Fisherman and his Flute. The Fisherman and the Little Fish. The Fly and the Ant. The Fly in the Soup. The Fowler and the Snake. The Fox and the Crow. The Fox and the Grapes. The Fox and the Lion.
George Fyler Townsend (1814–1900) was the British translator of the standard English edition of Aesop's Fables . He was the son of George Townsend and was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge -DCL 1876. He was Vicar of Barntingham, Yorks 1842-1857, of Leominster 1857-1862 and of St Michael's, Burleigh Street, Westminster ...