Lost Walt Disney Film From 1927 Featuring Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Found In Norway
A long-lost film by Walt Disney was recently found in a very unlikely place: a library in Norway near the Arctic Circle.
The 1927 film is called “Empty Socks” and features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character created by Disney and Ub Iwerks before Mickey Mouse. It’s also the first Christmas film ever made by the company, and was found in the National Library of Norway in Mo i Rana.
The library had been digitizing films and documents from its collection when it came upon the reels.
“At the beginning, we didn’t know it was a lost cinematographic treasure,” Kvale Soerenssen, an archivist at the library, said in a statement translated by AFP. “The film was in two reels which weren’t clearly labelled.”
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