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Rare Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon Discovered

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit has been getting more attention lately than he’s had in over 50 years. Now that the Disney Company bought him back so he could have a major role in the “Epic Mickey” video game, one could say this is the best Oswald’s career has been since its start. It’s fitting, then, that one of the early shorts featuring him has just been discovered in a film archive in the United Kingdom. The Reuters news agency reports that employees from Huntley Film Archives, one of the U.K.’s largest, discovered the old cartoon this year when doing a … Continue reading →

Welcome Back, Oswald

It’s rare that you see a story within entertainment business news that warms your heart. However, today, there is such a story. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit If you recall on a previous post regarding the history of Walt Disney and how he brought his company to life, I mentioned how Mickey Mouse was originally supposed to be a rabbit named Oswald. However, when Walt returned to New York to secure contracts for more films featuring the Oswald character he had created, he found that the character had been taken over by the studio (Universal), his animators had been hired by … Continue reading →

Obscure Disney History in “Epic Mickey”

Who are you again? “Epic Mickey” was a video game that, while enjoyable, suffered from multiple problems. One of them was that it perhaps catered to too narrow of an audience. It was chock full of Disney history – and I mean old school, black and white short cartoons Disney history – but it was a video game. How many gamers also get a thrill from references to Mickey’s most obscure cartoon companions? I imagine that there isn’t too much of an audience overlap. Of course that’s not to say that no one enjoys the two; the game’s developer himself … Continue reading →