Race Riot (film)

Race Riot
Title card
Directed byWalter Lantz
Story byWalter Lantz
Bill Nolan
Produced byWalter Lantz
StarringBill Nolan
Music byBert Fiske
Animation byWalter Lantz
Bill Nolan
Tom Palmer
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • September 2, 1929 (1929-09-02)
Running time
6:29
LanguageEnglish

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]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Walter's Lance (July 19, 2016), RACE RIOT (1929), retrieved July 12, 2018
  2. ^ "Gracie Lantz, 88, Dies; Cartoon Figure's Voice". Associated Press. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
  3. ^ FOLKART, BURT A. (March 19, 1992). "Gracie Lantz Dies; Invented Woody Woodpecker". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
  4. ^ a b Walter's Lance (July 21, 2016), HURDY GURDY (1929), retrieved July 12, 2018
  5. ^ a b c d e Bradley, Edwin M. (April 27, 2009). The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926–1931. McFarland. ISBN 9781476606842.