Poor Papa (found "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" Walt Disney animated short film; 1927): Difference between revisions

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Poor Papa poster.

Status: Lost

Poor Papa is the first Oswald The Lucky Rabbit short, created in 1927 by Walt Disney. In the short, Oswald gets a visit from a stork who continues to drop babies into his chimney at a rapid pace.

There are three copies known to exist. The first copy was sold in 2001 for $100; the second copy was sold for £170; and the third copy was sold for $7,500 in 2014. The film has not resurfaced on the Internet.

Surviving Stills

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-[[File:Poor-papa-poster.jpeg|thumb|215px|''Poor Papa'' poster.]]
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-'''''Poor Papa''''' is the first Oswald The Lucky Rabbit short ever made. Originally produced in 1927, it also is one of the first Disney shorts to be animated by Walt Disney himself.
+|title=<center>Poor Papa (1927)</center>
+|image=Poor-papa-poster.jpeg
+|imagecaption=''Poor Papa'' poster.
+|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span>
+}}
-The plot would have been Oswald getting a visit from the stork again and again with babies coming down the chimney at a rapid pace.
+'''''Poor Papa''''' is the first [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (partially lost series of Walt Disney shorts; 1920s-1930s)|''Oswald The Lucky Rabbit'']] short, created in 1927 by Walt Disney. In the short, Oswald gets a visit from a stork who continues to drop babies into his chimney at a rapid pace.
-There are only three copies known to exist. The first copy was sold in 2001 for a decidedly small fee of $100; the second copy was sold for £170 in an unknown year; the third copy was sold in 2014 for $7,500. None of them have been ripped for the Internet so far, and the cartoon was not aired on television because it, allegedly, "wasn't high-quality enough". Actually, it seems that the copies include only 3 minutes of the short (a bit less than half of it), so the rest of the short may be permanently gone.
+There are three copies known to exist. The first copy was sold in 2001 for $100; the second copy was sold for £170; and the third copy was sold for $7,500 in 2014. The film has not resurfaced on the Internet.
-==Screenshots==
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+==Surviving Stills==
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