Alpine Antics
About Alpine Antics
In the Swiss Alps, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is milking a goat when the goat bolts and leaves the pail on his head. His St. Bernard brings a note from Fanny, a girl cat stuck on a branch over a cliff. Oswald and the dog plant a ladder on a boulder and pull her off. The boulder is a sleeping wolverine. It wakes and chases them into a cave that opens over the water. The wolverine runs off the edge. Oswald, Fanny, and the dog ride back together.
Cast & crew
More about Alpine Antics
Tom Palmer directed the Oswald cartoon for Winkler Productions. Universal Pictures released it on 1 April 1929. The silent version runs 7 minutes 51 seconds.
Themes
Making
Palmer made it after Disney had left Oswald. Winkler was producing the rabbit for Universal, and this short sends him up an alp after a cat.
Preservation
A silent print running 7 minutes 51 seconds survives.
Notes
- Fanny is the name on the distress note. She is a girl cat.
- The St. Bernard carries the message. The same dog later runs off with the ladder, Oswald, and Fanny still on it.
- The boulder they use as a ladder base is the wolverine.
- Universal distributed the Winkler short.
Scenes
- The goat kicks the milk pail onto Oswald's head.
- The boulder under the ladder stands up. It is a wolverine.
- The wolverine runs out of the cave and off the cliff.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Alpine Antics (1929).webm)
