<Li> As one of David Edgar Walther's' short operatic dramas', composed in 2009 </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section gives self - sourcing examples without describing their significance in the context of the article . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources that describe the examples' significance, and by removing less pertinent examples . Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged or removed . (April 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section gives self - sourcing examples without describing their significance in the context of the article . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources that describe the examples' significance, and by removing less pertinent examples . Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged or removed . (April 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> There have been a number of film versions of the fable, although many have taken considerable liberties with the original story line . They include animated cartoons in France (1920), and the US (1921), Silly Symphonies cartoons during the 1930s and by Merrie Melodies during the 1940s . Encyclopædia Britannica Films followed with a dramatized version of Aesop's fable starring live animals, including an owl, a fox, a goose, a rooster, a raccoon, and a hare . This was a 1947 production in black and white with narrated voice - over . Later divergent versions that referenced the fable appeared in Filmation's Aesop's Fables (1971), Sesame Street (1973),, and the Japanese TV series Manga Aesop Monogotari (1983). </P>

Where did the story of the tortoise and the hare originate from