Two historical items linked to Walt Disney will go onto the auction block.
The first one will go on auction tomorrow (Nov. 11, 2011). It is a sketch done by Walt himself.
The second one will go on auction on Dec. 14, 2011 in Los Angeles. It is a newly-discovered "Hungry Hobo" cartoon featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.The image of a cigar-smoking man in a derby hat is believed to have been drawn in 1920, a few years before Disney came up with his most popular character, Mickey Mouse, in 1928.The sketch is expected to attract bids of between $35,000 (£21,875) and $50,000 (£31,250) at the auction, which starts at the Atlantis Casino Resort on Tuesday
"Hungry Hobos" was one of 26 episodes featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character created by Disney and cartoonist Ub Iwerks in 1927 for Universal Studios.Supposedly, according to the news article, The Walt Disney Company is aware of the discovery of this film. I wonder if they ever made an attempt to buy it?
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Robert Dewar, commercial director of Huntley Film Archives, one of Britain's biggest independent film libraries, said he and colleagues found the only known surviving copy of Hungry Hobos during a routine cataloguing exercise earlier this year.
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1 comment:
So interesting that a disney cartoon can be lost for so long and the people who had it didn't even know!
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