Tag Archives: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Ears Coming to Disneyland & Walt Disney World

Posted on September 11, 2012 by John Frost

When the folks at Disney Interactive Studios released “Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two” at the E3 conference earlier this summer, there was a lot of noise generated in the Disney fan community. Unfortunately for Disney Interactive, that noise … Continue reading →

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Lost Oswald Short Restored and Shown at Film Festival

Posted on September 10, 2012 by John Frost

Last year a British film archive discovered a print of an 1928 Oswald The Lucky Rabbit short that had previously been thought lost. “Hungry Hobos” was the 20th out of 26 Oswald films worked on by Walt Disney and his … Continue reading →

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Lost Oswald The Lucky Rabbit film Discovered, Will Be Auctioned

Posted on November 29, 2011 by John Frost

The linchpin of Walt Disney’s creative genius was that even when faced with the sort of loss that would devastate most people, he never gave up. Walt’s biggest creative loss was when Charles Mintz stole away the rights to Oswald … Continue reading →

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Oswald Bonanza

Posted on April 13, 2010 by John Frost

A veritable bonanza of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit posters over at Greenbriar. He also tells the tale of how ‘unlucky’ Oswald was for Disney. Ub Iwerks tried to warn Disney that Mintz was poaching his artists, but Walt wouldn’t believe … Continue reading →

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Should Miramax go back to its founders?

Posted on April 9, 2010 by John Frost

Three bids have come in to buy the Miramax brand and film library from the Walt Disney Company. The Weinstein Brothers, the original founders of the company, are part of a group who has one of the bids. As NBC … Continue reading →

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