All Wet

Name: All Wet
Director: Walt Disney
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Released: 1927
Duration: 6 min

1927 Animation Comedy 6 minutes Directed by Walt Disney

About All Wet

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit takes a lifeguard's job so he can watch Miss Rabbit. She stages a boating accident so he will come out and save her.

Cast & crew

Walt Disney Director

More about All Wet

An Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short. Wikipedia credits Ub Iwerks as director. Wikidata credits Walt Disney. Wikidata dates it October 31, 1927, and gives 6 minutes. Universal reissued it in 1932 with music and sound effects. That reissue is the version that survives. It entered the public domain on January 1, 2023. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Themes

a lifeguard hired to watch one swimmer
a boating accident staged for a rescue
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Miss Rabbit
lifeguard
Ub Iwerks
boating accident

Making

Iwerks is the director on the Wikipedia credit. Disney is the name on the Wikidata credit for the same Oswald short.

Music

The 1932 reissue added music and sound effects. The 1927 release was silent.

Preservation

The 1932 sound reissue is the surviving version. Public domain since January 1, 2023.

Notes

The silent original is not the copy in circulation. The 1932 Universal reissue is.
Miss Rabbit fakes the accident. Oswald does not start as her rescuer. He takes the job to watch her.
The Commons file is titled Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - All Wet.