Hungry Hoboes

Hungry Hoboes (alternate spelling: Hungry Hobos)[1] is a silent animated short released by Universal Studios in 1928.[2] The short features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Peg Leg Pete as the title characters. the plot the short begins with a train moving then it zooms in to reveal Pete and Oswald playing checkers they then get hungry. A chicken then drops in Oswald then fights it. Oswald then takes the eggs out of the chicken which then flys away. A police officer then spots Pete and Oswald then they are chased by the officer.

Hungry Hoboes
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Directed byWalt Disney
Produced byCharles Mintz
Written byWalt Disney
StarringOswald the Lucky Rabbit
CinematographyUb Iwerks
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • May 14, 1928 (1928-05-14)
Running time
5 minutes, 21 seconds
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

Having been lost since before World War II, the short was rediscovered in 2011 in the Huntley Film Archives,[3] and was later purchased by the Walt Disney Company for $31,250.[4] It was then restored in a digital year-long process Hungry Hoboes re-debuted in at the Telluride Film Festival, on September 2, 2012, as part of a special animation shorts program presented by leading film historian and restoration expert Serge Bromberg. The restored version was officially released as a bonus feature in the release of the Walt Disney Signature Collection edition of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Blu-ray.[1]

References
  1. Minovitz, Ethan (September 6, 2012). "Lost Disney Short Found, Restored and Shown". Big Cartoon News. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 40. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  3. "Lost Disney cartoon shows how Mickey Mouse was originally Oswald the Lucky Rabbit". The Telegraph. November 28, 2011. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  4. Kohler, Chris (March 23, 2012). "Forgotten Disney Toons Return for Epic Mickey Sequel". Wired. Retrieved October 27, 2016.


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