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1928 cartoon short film
Africa Before Dark
is a 1928 American
animated
short film
featuring
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
, directed by
Walt Disney
and
Ub Iwerks
.
Plot summary
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Oswald is
big-game hunting
in Africa, and is riding an elephant, which is itself riding a bicycle, the elephant rides into an area of ground littered with large rocks, crashes into one of them after narrowly dodging the rest, tips onto it's trunk and tusks, and then accidentally sits on Oswald, crushing him flat. The elephant blows air into Oswald, reinflating him. A variety of African animals are playing games, including two monkeys playing
tic-tac-toe
on a tiger's back. Oswald stealthily approaches with a rifle and shoots numerous shots at the animals, who all vanish. An owl laughs at Oswald, and angered, he shoots the owl. A baby tiger approaches Oswald, kicks him and runs away. Oswald chases it and the tiger runs into a burrow in the ground. Oswald tries to shoot it but the tiger redirects his rifle so that Oswald shoots himself. The tiger runs into a hollow log and Oswald produces an enormous handgun. Instead of the baby tiger, several huge lions emerge from the log, and Oswald's gun dwindles into a tiny
pop-gun
. Oswald runs away, chased by the lions. He leaps onto his elephant's back and they continue to run from the lions. The elephant then flaps his ears and flies away, carrying Oswald to safety.
Releases
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The short was released on February 20, 1928, by
Universal Pictures
.
[1]
The film was thought to be
lost
before a fragment was discovered in 2009 and later a full copy was found at the
Austrian Film Museum
in
Vienna
.
[2]
The film was restored by Walt Disney Animation Studios and shown at a screening on June 13, 2015, with live orchestration provided by the
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
.
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It was released as a bonus item on the 2017
Blu-ray
release of
Bambi
.
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