Rarest Disney Short

[Cartman]

I think that the Disney-produced Oswald shorts are the rarest. :cool: :D :p

[Nelson]

You can fined some of the public doman Disney/Oswald shorts if you look real hard you may find them.

I pick HELL'S BELL'S cause this a very rare cartoon, along with another cartoon that should have been on this list, and the cartoon is CANNIBAL CAPERS.

Check this one out, next week I will have in my collection, two more censored Disney shorts "HELL'S BELL'S", "CANNIBAL CAPERS" ...And I should point out that I have the complete UNCUT original version of "STEAMBOAT WILLIE" :D :D :D

[Argus Sventon]

Who owns the Disney produced Oswald shorts? Disney or Universal?

[Nelson]

Universal/MCA owns the complete rights to Oswald...In 1927 the studio was looking for a top animator to animated their unknown rabbit, and Disney and Iwerks.

Now keep in mind that Disney NEVER had the rights to the character, it was taken away by (the future Columbia Cartoon Producer)Charles Mintz, and Disney was just there to make the one reelers for Carl Lammale's Universal Studios.

[starlioness]

what's steeplechase?:confused:

[David Gerstein]

THE STEEPLECHASE is a 1933 Mickey cartoon.

In it, Mickey and his two black stable hand friends are working for Colonel Rolfe at the racetrack. Mickey's friends will prepare the horse Thunderbolt for the race, while Mickey will be the jockey in the race itself.
While Mickey's friends' backs are turned, alas, the horse finds a jug of moonshine that someone had left in the stall, and drinks it. Quickly becoming drunk, Thunderbolt can't run in the race. Mickey then gets the idea of dressing his friends up as a horse and riding *them* in the race. They go for this idea but run into trouble with a swarm of bees on the track, leading to a chaotic ending.

Mickey's two (identical) stable hand friends are black because it was a cliché at the time that stable hands were black (like cops were Irish, merchants Jewish, etc.) They say one "Yessir, Boss" to Colonel Rolfe at the start, but otherwise aren't stereotypical.
As far as censorship goes, that one "Yessir, Boss" is cut out on TV, but the race stuff ends there. The cartoon *is* heavily cut elsewhere, but mainly to remove the sequence with the horse drinking and some lengthy scenes of him drunk, hiccuping as he wrestles with the stable hands.
The cartoon isn't banned, though, and is regularly shown, so I have no idea why it was part of this poll! (?)

[barnyarddawg]

Most of the Laugh-O-Grams have been lost, haven't they? Which ones have survived?

[Cartman]

I'm sure prints of some of those Laugh-O-Grams must be somewhere. I know that you can find them on some of those PD videos.

[hippety hopper]

I voted for the Laugh-a-gram's I've never seen any of those :(

BTW,I've seen the uncut version of Steamboat willie(I think?)

[Sveven Dvorking]

I voted for the Laugh-O-Grams. I've never even heard of them!

[Brandon Pierce]

Hey Nelson, could you post a pic of the edited scene in Steamboat Willie?

[Nelson]

I wish I could post the unedited scenes, but if you want a copy of the cartoon (along with other uncensored Disney) drop me an e-mail and I'll be more than happy to make you a collection.

[barnyarddawg]

I know it's not a short, but Victory through Air Power seems to be missing in action.

[Nelson]

Hey fellas, check out what I just got in the mail today..

HELL'S BELL'S

CANNIBAL CAPERS

BROKEN TOYS The original UNCUT! version

THE MERRY DWARFS

JUST DOGS

And sometime this week I'll be getting VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER ...Seems like this will be a great week...