Lost 1928 Walt Disney film uncovered in British Film Institute archive
Source: Guardian
Lost 1928 Walt Disney film uncovered in British Film Institute archive
Six-minute film Sleigh Bells, featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, has been restored and will get its world premiere at BFI in London next month
A long-lost Walt Disney film featuring his first animated character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, has been discovered tucked away in the national archive of the British Film Institute.
The BFI announced the remarkable discovery of the six-minute film Sleigh Bells, unseen since its release in 1928 and feared lost for ever. The film has since been restored by Walt Disney Animation Studios and will get its world premiere at the BFI in London next month.
Robin Baker, the BFI National Archive head curator, said the film demonstrated the vitality and imagination of Disney’s animation at a key point in his early career”. He added: “What a joyful treat to discover a long-lost Walt Disney film in the BFI national archive and to be able to show it to a whole new audience 87 years after it was made. The restoration of this film will introduce many audiences to Disney’s work in the silent period.”
The film entered the archives 34 years ago, part of a job lot from a Soho film laboratory that had gone out of business. The stock was dated 1931 and there was nothing to indicated it was an important lost film.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/03/lost-walt-disney-film-discovered-in-british-film-institute-archive
There is a clip of this amazing find at the link.
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