A copy of a Walt Disney cartoon from 1927 - long thought to have been lost - has been discovered in Norway.
The footage is an almost complete version of the first Disney Christmas film, Empty Socks.
The discovery was made during an inventory at the Norway National Library facility in Mo i Rana on Thursday (December 11).
"At the beginning, we didn't know it was a lost cinematographic treasure," said library archivist Kvale Soerenssen.
"The film was in two reels which weren't clearly labelled."
The original version of Empty Socks was 5 minutes and 30 seconds long, but approximately 30 seconds in the middle of the film are missing from the footage.
The film stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who was created before Mickey Mouse and appeared in 26 Walt Disney movies.
Before this find, the only known copy of Empty Socks was a 25-second sequence preserved at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The footage is an almost complete version of the first Disney Christmas film, Empty Socks.
The discovery was made during an inventory at the Norway National Library facility in Mo i Rana on Thursday (December 11).
"At the beginning, we didn't know it was a lost cinematographic treasure," said library archivist Kvale Soerenssen.
"The film was in two reels which weren't clearly labelled."
The original version of Empty Socks was 5 minutes and 30 seconds long, but approximately 30 seconds in the middle of the film are missing from the footage.
The film stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who was created before Mickey Mouse and appeared in 26 Walt Disney movies.
Before this find, the only known copy of Empty Socks was a 25-second sequence preserved at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- 12/13/2014
- Digital Spy
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