Amature Nite
About Amature Nite
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit rides a worn-out horse to a theater that will not sit still, then walks on as host of amateur night. He brings out the Hippy Hippos, a dancing mouse, and Quacky Quacks, a duck in a hat who keeps dancing after Oswald yanks him off, cane and shoes included. A mouse in the seats applauds the flops and boos the hits until the rest of the house glares him into line. Oswald conducts an animal orchestra. The same mouse stays behind and pelts the stage with eggs.
Cast & crew
More about Amature Nite
Walter Lantz directed the Oswald short. Universal released it on 11 November 1929. It was copyrighted as Amateur Night. The Internet Animation Database lists production number 5083 and credits animators Bill Nolan, Rollin Hamilton, and Tom Palmer. David Broekman wrote the score. Motion Picture News listed the cartoon by mistake as a silent release.
Themes
Making
Universal was releasing Lantz's Oswald series in 1929 after the character had left Walt Disney. This one is a vaudeville bill inside a cartoon theater.
Music
David Broekman wrote the score. A circulating picture print has no track.
Preservation
A silent picture element circulates on Wikimedia Commons. A sound print has been reported at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The short is in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- The on-screen title spells it Amature Nite.
- Maurice Horn called this Lantz's first cartoon. Race Riot, released earlier in 1929, was the first.
- Bill Nolan is credited, uncredited on screen, with Oswald's voice.
- A Wikimedia copy runs 6 minutes 24 seconds and has no soundtrack, though the short was made with sound.
- The Lantz filmography reports a sound print at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Scenes
- Quacky Quacks is yanked offstage, and his cane and shoes keep dancing until Oswald shoots them off.
- The last mouse in the house uses a hen's eggs as missiles and hits Oswald as the curtain drops.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Amateur Nite (1929) (No Soundtrack).webm)
