The Ocean Hop
About The Ocean Hop
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit enters an airplane race across the Atlantic. Peg Leg Pete taunts him and glues Oswald's plane to the ground with chewing gum. Pete takes the lead. Oswald builds another craft from balloons and a long dachshund. Pete shoots that one down over Paris. Oswald parachutes into the city, and the crowd treats him as the winner.
Cast & crew
More about The Ocean Hop
Walt Disney directed and is credited with the story. Charles Mintz produced it for Winkler Pictures. Universal Pictures released it on 14 November 1927. A timed copy runs 6 minutes 39 seconds. It is Peg Leg Pete's first appearance in the Oswald series. Walter Lantz Productions reissued the cartoon in 1932 with music and sound effects. That sound reissue is the only version known to survive. The copyright was not renewed, and the short entered the public domain in the United States in 1955.
Themes
Making
Disney sends Oswald across the ocean twice: once in a plane Pete gums to the ground, then on a dog tied to balloons.
Music
Silent on first release. The surviving 1932 Lantz reissue has music and sound effects.
Preservation
The 1932 Walter Lantz sound reissue is the only version known to survive. The copyright was not renewed. The film entered the public domain in the United States in 1955.
Notes
- Pete's cheat is chewing gum under Oswald's plane.
- The second aircraft is a dachshund held up by balloons.
- Oswald loses the air race and still gets a hero's welcome in Paris.
- The silent original is not known to survive. What circulates is the 1932 Lantz sound version.
- A Wikimedia file uses the 1927 title.
Scenes
- Pete sticks Oswald's plane to the ground with chewing gum.
- Oswald crosses on a dachshund lifted by balloons and parachutes into Paris.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Ocean Hop (1927).webm)
