It took a while, but that trade of Al Michaels to NBC in return for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is now finally producing a marketable product. Amazon is listing a Disney Treasures tin set of The Adventures of Oswald, to be released on December 11.
Strangely enough, the listing on the DVD has Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy, both of which are Mickey Mouse cartoons (there's probably more, but I'm not sure). Are there not enough Oswald cartoons to fill a DVD?
Zz.
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Universal didn't save master materials on most of Disney's 26 Oswald cartoons, nor did they make most of them available in any format after about 1932. Disney had to really work to compile a serviceable library, finally locating 13 titles.
More will surely be discovered in time; but meanwhile, Disney wanted to make sure that its 2-disc set had two discs worth of material on it. So they've also included a long-awaited feature-length Ub Iwerks documentary and a handful of other Oswald-era shorts.
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