Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Mouse cartoon to be filmed was "Plane Crazy" in the summer of 1928, but it was produced as a silent and held back from release. The first Mickey Mouse film with a synchronized soundtrack, "Steamboat Willie", reached the screen that fall and became a major hit, eclipsing Oswald. "Plane Crazy" was later given its own synchronized soundtrack and released on March 17, 1929. Mintz, meanwhile, opened his own studio consisting primarily of former Disney employees, where he continued to produce Oswald cartoons, among them the first Oswald with sound, "Hen Fruit" (1929). While things were going in Mintz's favor, animators
The County Fair (1934 film) as far as he could. The boy beagle tosses the lumber which lands on Oswald's head, putting the rabbit dazed on the ground. The County Fair (1934 film) The County Fair, also called The Country Fair in some reissues, is a short animated film distributed by Universal Pictures, and among numerous ones that feature Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The cartoon shares a very similar title with "Kounty Fair", another Oswald short released four years prior. Oswald is walking merrily on the road, heading towards the county fair. On his way, the boy beagle is expelled out of the house by