Hurdy Gurdy

1929 Animation Directed by Walter Lantz

About Hurdy Gurdy

Pete works a street organ. Oswald spits out his gum, and Pete's monkey is swallowed up in it. Pete then uses Oswald in the monkey's place as the dancer.

Cast & crew

More about Hurdy Gurdy

Walter Lantz directed. Rollin Hamilton, Bill Nolan, and Tom Palmer animated it. Universal released it on November 24, 1929, as one of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts. The copyright date is January 3, 1930.

Themes

Making

Lantz's unit at Universal put Oswald into a street-organ gag animated by Hamilton, Nolan, and Palmer.

Preservation

A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • The copyright notice is dated the January after the November release.
  • It belongs to the Universal Oswald series made after Disney lost the character.

Scenes

  • The monkey disappears into Oswald's gum, and Pete makes Oswald dance in its place.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Hurdy Gurdy (1929).webm)