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Trolley Troubles (1927)

★½ — Trolley Troubles (1927)

Trolley Troubles (1927) holds a modest but genuinely significant place in animation history: it was the first official release featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the character Walt Disney created for Universal Pictures distributor Charles Mintz just a year before the famous contractual dispute that saw Disney lose the rights to Oswald entirely, prompting him to develop a certain mouse instead. At this point Disney's studio was a small, scrappy operation working under the Universal banner, and the Oswald shorts were produced on tight budgets with a young team still finding its feet. The character had actually debuted in a test short called Poor Papa, but Universal considered it too crude, making Trolley Troubles the cleaned-up, public-facing introduction to Oswald.

Another 1927 Oswald short. I know they're nearly 100 years old and I SHOULD probably judge them by that standard but they're just not very good.

Rating: ★½ | Year: 1927 | Watched: 2025-09-07

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