Hello! I came across your post quite by accident while trying to research online one of the tunes I first heard as background music to a number of silent Farmer Alfalfa a/k/a Farmer Gray cartoons shown on TV in New York City when I was a kid almost 70 years ago, so I just signed up on this website so I could post a reply. I recorded this tune and a number of other tunes like them from the TV at the time using a big Webcor reel-to-reel tape recorder and still have my recordings (now on cassette) and still love the tunes. With a few minor variations, I could have written your post, and it reflects my own attitudes about the great background music used at that time for what were originally silent cartoons. The fact that you mention "Sellenger's Round" as the title for one of the pieces indicates to me that we are talking about the same kind of music. I first found out what the title of that piece was when I was in college and heard someone playing it on the piano in the lounge outside a student dining hall, but like you I have never found the full, beautiful orchestral version that was used for the cartoon. I likewise can remember other points in my life when I first found out the titles of other, similar pieces: one of them, for example, from Georges Bizet's "Jeux d'Enfants", I heard on a classical radio station when I was in my teens (after also hearing it every year in the 1938 version of "A Christmas Carol" with Reginald Owen after Scrooge wakes up on Christmas morning, throws open the windows and calls down to a boy in the street) and another, "The Dance of the Clowns", from Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music to Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream", I first heard identified while listening to an airline's classical music selections on headphones while on a cross-country flight. My favorite tune, however, along with "Sellenger's Round", is one I just identified this week. It appears in two of the Farmer Gray cartoons currently posted on YouTube, one with no title that is indexed merely under "1920s fable cartoon" and begins with a cat fishing: the first tune in the cartoon is a medley of two traditional British/Irish hornpipes, "Sailor's Hornpipe" and "Fisher's Hornpipe" played on what sounds like a barrel piano, the second tune is an old Irish sentimental song in waltz time, "The Old Rustic Bridge by the Mill", played probably on the same instrument, and the third is the tune I have been wanting to identify for so long. It plays through almost completely during the rest of the cartoon but unfortunately is cut off in the last few seconds at the end (The tune also appears at the very beginning of another cartoon on YouTube titled "Wonders of the Deep"). I recognized years ago that the tune is a medley that incorporates portions of traditional English Morris dance tunes, but I never knew what the main theme was, that appears at the very beginning following what sounds like the beating of drums. I confirmed during the past few days that it is another traditional English dance tune (like "Sellenger's Round") with the title "The Boyne Water". I have been interested for many years in traditional Irish music and for a long time knew that there was a folk song about the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 with this title, but I never knew that there was also a dance tune, perhaps based on it but very different from it, with the same title. The piece was collected by the English folk music expert Cecil Sharp in 1909 from a gypsy fiddler and transcribed by him and even recorded by him on a wax cylinder, and you can find a copy of the sheet music for the piece reflecting his transcription online if you google "Boyne Water" and "Cecil Sharp" and/or "Locke" (the name of the gypsy fiddler). A recording of the piece for dancing, by a group called "The Shropshire Heroes", complete with the kind of calling that is done for square dancing in the background, can be found online that confirms that it is the same piece, but as with "Sellenger's Round" the full, orchestral version used in the cartoon is so much nicer and I regret that after all these years I have never located the complete recording of it. I do find it interesting that both tunes are from the English folk tradition and that makes me wonder whether the body of background music that included it was from an English source. If you can somehow get your .avi file to me or post it on this website, I would love to hear it and try to identify the tune on it. Best regards, Richie D