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The Adventures of
Oswald
the Lucky Rabbit

(1927-1928)

 

Contents: Steamboat Willie (1928), Plane Crazy (1928), The Karnival Kid (1929), The Birthday Party (1931), The Castaway (1931), Mickey’s Orphans (1931), Mickey’s Revue (1932), Building a Building (1933) and Mickey’s Steam-Roller (1934).

coverWalt Disney Home Entertainment
2007 DVD edition

The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927-1928), black & white, 234 minutes total, not rated,
including Trolley Troubles (1927), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Oh Teacher (1927), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, Great Guns! (1927), black & white, 7 minutes, not rated, The Mechanical Cow (1927), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, The Ocean Hop (1927), black & white, 6 minutes, not rated, All Wet (1927), black & white, 7 minutes, Rival Romeos (1928), black & white, XXXX minutes, not rated, XXXX (1928), black & white, XXXX minutes, not rated, XXXX (1928), black & white, XXXX minutes, not rated, XXXX (1928), black & white, XXXX minutes, not rated, XXXX (1928), black & white, XXXX minutes, not rated, XXXX (1928), black & white, XXXX minutes, not rated, XXXX (1928), black & white, XXXX minutes, not rated, The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (2007), black & white and color, 92 minutes, not rated.

Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 52420, UPC 7-86936-71634-4, ISBN 0-7888-7158-7.
Two single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at 8.2 Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to 60 fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate (music), Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 192 Kbps audio bit rate (commentary, selected films), and Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sound encoded at 448 Kbps audio bit rate (documentary); English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, English language SDH subtitles; chapter stops; insert booklet; collectible pinback button; pencil drawings sample card; certificate of authenticity; double-wide two-disc DVD keepcase in steelcase; unknown suggested retail price.
Release date: 11 December 2007.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD collection features a selection of the surviving Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons that have been transferred from 35mm prints (and a few 16mm reduction prints).

The early films are presented in windowboxed transfers, while the later films are presented in full-frame transfers.

The film are accompanied by excellent music scores by Robert Israel, performed by a small orchestra.

Supplementary material includes the feature-length documentary The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (2007) by Leslie Iwerks; animated original pencil drawings for the lost film Sagebrush Sadie (1928).

This edition is very hard-to-find these days but well worth the search. Highly recommended.

 
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