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 Toy Shoppe is as he had left it except for the broken jester on the floor. He believes the damage was the work of the rat and ponders how to get rid of the rodent. Universal was given a chance to have some of their black and white cartoons colorized. The film "The Toy Shoppe" was used for the testing. For undisclosed reasons, Universal turned down the colorization offer. The Toy Shoppe The Toy Shoppe is a short animated film produced by Walter Lantz Productions, and is one of the many with the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. While the film was