Sick Cylinders
About Sick Cylinders
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit drives a new car to pick up his girlfriend. The flivver dies, and a terrier makes him throw sticks that grow into a log dropped on the hood. Back on the road, a boulder they jar loose chases them until the car falls into a sand pit. She leaves with another driver in a straight-eight, and Oswald kicks the little car.
Cast & crew
More about Sick Cylinders
George Winkler produced it for Universal release on February 18, 1929. Hugh Harman and Ben Clopton directed and animated it. The copyright registration is LP24945, dated December 26, 1928. Bert Fiske is credited with the synchronization and score.
Themes
Music
Bert Fiske supplied the synchronized score.
Preservation
A print survives from the Winkler Oswald series, most of which is lost.
Notes
- Wikipedia calls the girlfriend Ortensia, a girl cat. The 1928 copyright synopsis does not name her.
- It is one of the few Oswald cartoons from the Winkler period that survive.
- Cartoon Research notes that some gags were reused closely in Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930) and Bosko's Holiday (1931).
Scenes
- The terrier returns with a log and drops it on the car, flattening Oswald underneath.
- A loose boulder chases the car until it drops into a sand pit.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Sick Cylinders (1929).webm)
