Race Riot (1929)

Directed by

Walter Lantz

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit enters a horse race and tries to win. He uses various tricks and antics to get ahead in the competition.

whimsicallightheartedslapsticknostalgicplayfulfast-pacedquirky

What happens

Race Riot is a 1929 animated short film which is presented by Carl Laemmle and was produced by Walter Lantz, who would go on to produce and create the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker with his wife, Gracie Lantz. The film, for which Walter Lantz, Bill Nolan and Tom Palmer composed both the story and animation, shows Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, as he tries to win a horse race with his horse. The film was recorded with Western Electric apparatus, which was an early sound-on-film system. This sound system was used in another Oswald short film entitled Hurdy Gurdy, which involves Oswald being substituted as a street performer's dancer after the original one was comically swallowed up by Oswald's chewing gum, or more specifically, bubble gum. That film was released in the same year as this one, albeit later. Race Riot was released by the film company Universal Pictures, and is part of the Universal series of Oswald short films. It entered the public domain on January 1, 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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