Africa

Name: Africa
Director: William Nolan
Genre: Animation, Music
Released: 1930
Duration: 6 min
Cast: Pinto Colvig

1930 Animation Music 6 minutes Directed by William Nolan

About Africa

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit rides a camel. When a lion attacks, he fires the camel's humps as cannonballs and beats it. In Cairo he sings his theme song to a queen. The Sphinx and a pair of pyramids sing along. The king does not.

Cast & crew

William Nolan Director
Pinto Colvig

More about Africa

A Walter Lantz Oswald short. The catalog credits William Nolan as director. Wikidata credits Walter Lantz. English Wikipedia calls it a 1930 Lantz cartoon and times it at 6 minutes.

Themes

Oswald on a camel
a song the monuments join
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
camel
lion
Cairo
Sphinx

Notes

The weapon is the camel: Oswald shoots the humps off as cannonballs.
The song number is in Cairo, with the Sphinx and the pyramids joining in.
The king is the one who does not enjoy it.

Scenes

Oswald uses the camel's humps as cannonballs against the lion.
The Sphinx and the pyramids sing his theme song. The king does not join.

Also available

Wikimedia Commons (Africa (1930).webm)