Directed by Walt DisneyUb Iwerks Story by Ub IwerksWalt Disney Initial release 23 July 1928 | Color process Black and white | |
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Release date(s) July 23, 1928 (1928-07-23) Production company Walt Disney Animation Studios Film series Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Film Series Similar Africa Before Dark, Empty Socks, Hungry Hoboes, Oh - What a Knight, The Mechanical Cow | ||
Disney 1928 lost film sleigh bells movie clip oswald the lucky rabbit
Sleigh Bells is an American animated short film featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It was directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, and released in 1928 by The Walt Disney Studio. The film was thought to be lost until a print was discovered in the BFI National Archives in 2015.
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- Disney 1928 lost film sleigh bells movie clip oswald the lucky rabbit
- Plot
- History
- Seasonal Shorts
- References
Plot
The film has Oswald the Lucky Rabbit playing in an ice hockey game with surreal plot points. With a "winter wonderland backdrop", Oswald takes off his ear to form a balloon plus a laughing donkey, who gets the puck in the mouth which sticks.
History
The short was animated by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and was released in 1928. The found footage of film was dated 1931 at a Soho film laboratory. That lab went out of business with its film being sent to the BFI archives in 1981. A lost Disney titles researcher searched through the BFI archive catalog and found its listing. The short was returned to Disney and has since been restored by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. On December 12, 2015, Sleigh Bells was featured in It’s a Disney Christmas: Seasonal Shorts program at BFI Southbank.
Seasonal Shorts
It’s a Disney Christmas: Seasonal Shorts at featured: