90-YO Disney Short Film About Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Once Feared 'Lost' Surfaces In Japan
Short animated film that was created by Walt Disney in 1928 but feared lost has just been discovered in Japan. The two-minute short features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit a precursor to Mickey Mouse. The original &ldquoNeck &rsquon&rsquo Neck&rdquo is five minutes long.
A short animated film that was created by Walt Disney in 1928 but feared lost has just been discovered in Japan.
According to reports, the two-minute short features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a precursor to Mickey Mouse. Titled ¡°Neck ¡®n¡¯ Neck¡± when the film was released in the US, a handful of copies reached Japan, reports the Telegraph UK.
One was purchased by a high school student named Yasushi Watanabe from a toy wholesalers¡¯ market in the city of Osaka.
Watanabe, now 84 years old, didn¡¯t realise he had a lost Disney short film in his possession until he read David Bossert¡¯s 2017 book ¡°Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons.¡±
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The original ¡°Neck ¡¯n¡¯ Neck¡± is five minutes long, it shortened to two minutes for home movie projectors and sold to the public in the form of a 16-mm film.
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Walt Disney created 26 short films that starred Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but only 19 have survived.
¡°I¡¯ve been a Disney fan for many years and I¡¯m happy that I have been able to play a role in this discovery¡±, Yasushi Watanabe said in an interview.
Watanabe¡¯s film is currently housed at the Kobe Planet Film Archive, a movie library.
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