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Disney’s lost Oswald Lucky Rabbit movie surfaces in Japan

AKIPRESS.COM - A short animated film that was created by Walt Disney in 1928 but feared lost has been discovered in Japan, Telegraph reports.

The two-minute, black-and-white film footage features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character that Walt Disney created in 1927, a year before he came up with the character that was to make him a household name globally, Mickey Mouse.

Titled “Neck ‘n’ Neck” when the film was released in the US, a handful of copies reached Japan, where one was purchased by a high school student named Yasushi Watanabe from a toy wholesalers’ market in the city of Osaka.

Walt Disney created 26 short films that starred Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, but only 19 have survived. Despite the film studio and collectors being on the lookout for the missing footage for the last 90 years, examples of the remaining seven have never before been located.

One of Walt Disney’s earliest characters, the legendary movie maker lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit to a rival company in 1928. The experience reportedly angered Mr Disney, but spurred him to create a new character who is now known the world over as Mickey Mouse. November 18 marks the 90th anniversary of Mickey Mouse’s first appearance in a movie.

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