Confidence

Name: Confidence
Director: William Nolan
Genre: Animation
Released: 1933
Duration: 7 min

1933 Animation 7 minutes Directed by William Nolan

About Confidence

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's farm is doing fine, hens and all, until a shadow called Depression climbs out of the dump and panics the place. Oswald flies to Washington and meets President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Cast & crew

William Nolan Director

More about Confidence

Bill Nolan directed this pre-Code Oswald short for Walter Lantz. Universal released it on 31 July 1933. Several actors share Oswald's voice. The Great Depression is drawn as a dark figure. Roosevelt appears as himself, in cartoon form.

Themes

A farm hit by panic
Depression as a character
A trip to see Roosevelt
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Great Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Walter Lantz
1933

Background

Released in the summer of 1933, a few months after Roosevelt's inauguration. The cartoon treats the slump as a monster that can be flown to Washington and answered.

Preservation

The short survives and is on The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection.

Notes

It is on The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection DVD.
More than one actor voices Oswald in this short.
The Depression enters from the junk pile and then travels, which is how the farm catches it.
The White House visit is the cartoon's proposed cure.

Scenes

A black figure called Depression rises out of the dump and the hens stop laying in peace.
Oswald flies to Washington and walks in on Roosevelt.

Also available

Internet Archive (OswaldTheLuckyRabbitInComfidence)
The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection (DVD)