Race Riot (film)

Race Riot
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Directed by	Walter Lantz
Story by	Walter Lantz Bill Nolan
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Starring	Bill Nolan
Music by	Bert Fiske
Animation by	Walter Lantz Bill Nolan Tom Palmer
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Universal Cartoon Studios
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	September 2, 1929 (1929-09-02)
Running time	6:29
Language	English

Race Riot is a 1929 animated short film which is presented by Carl Laemmle and was produced by Walter Lantz,^[1] who would go on to produce and create the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker with his wife,^[2] Gracie Lantz.^[3] The film, which both its story and animation was composed by Walter Lantz, 'Bill' Nolan and Tom Palmer,^[1] features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit,^[1] as he attempts to win a horse race with his horse.^[1]

The film was recorded with Western Electric apparatus,^[1] which was an early sound-on-film system. This sound system was used in another Oswald short film entitled Hurdy Gurdy,^[4] which involves Oswald being substituted as a street performer's dancer after the original one was comically swallowed up by Oswald's chewing gum, or more specifically, bubblegum.^[4] That film was released in the same year as this one,^[5] albeit later.^[5]

Copyrighted on July 26, 1929,^[5] and released on September 2 that same year,^[5] Race Riot was released by the film company Universal Pictures,^[1][5] and is part of the Universal series of Oswald short films.^[1]