Oil's Well
About Oil's Well
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit rows a canoe while Kitty plays a guitar. Rocks knock the oar and the guitar into the river. He turns the boat into a car, takes her home to a tall building, and asks her to marry him and have a dozen children. A bloodhound who is already her beau throws Oswald out. Oswald raises the car to her window and serenades her on a trombone, then the two of them flee. The dog hijacks a stork, fires a rifle and a cannonball, and finally makes Oswald dig a grave. The shovel strikes oil. Oswald, Kitty, and the bloodhound drop the fight, get rich, and dance across the Universal logo.
Cast & crew
More about Oil's Well
The second Oswald cartoon made by Walter Lantz, and the 54th Oswald short in the series. Lantz directed and produced it, with animation by Lantz, Bill Nolan, and Tom Palmer. Bert Fiske wrote the music. Universal Pictures released it on 16 September 1929. Black and white.
Themes
Background
Universal released it in September 1929, in the first season of Lantz Oswalds, as theaters were changing over to sound.
Making
Lantz's unit had just taken the Oswald series. This is the second short under that arrangement, still using the rabbit's body as a prop: the tail, the trombone, and the shovel all do the work of the plot.
Music
Bert Fiske wrote the music.
Notes
- In other Oswald cartoons the girlfriend is called Sadie. Here she is Kitty.
- Oswald uses his trombone slide to lift Kitty out of the window.
- The bloodhound hides in a stork's bundle, taking the place of a puppy the bird was delivering.
- The last gag puts the three of them dancing on the Universal name in the studio logo.
- It is a six-minute-and-forty-second short.
Scenes
- Oswald turns the canoe into a car after the river takes the oar.
- He serenades Kitty at her window with a trombone.
- Digging his own grave, he hits oil, and the chase stops.
- Oswald, Kitty, and the bloodhound dance on the Universal logo.
