The Unlucky Rabbit

Oct 22, 2025

0h 10m

★ 0.0

It all started with... a rabbit?

Overview

A group of animators pitch The Unlucky Rabbit, a documentary exploring Walt Disney’s earliest creation, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Through storyboards, they retrace the 1920s from Disney’s arrival in California, to his collaboration with Ub Iwerks for the character Oswald at Universal Pictures.

Genres

Animation

Documentary

History

Family

Production Companies

Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television

The Unlucky Rabbit Trailers

Cast

Kathy/Narrator

Kelly Bouslaiby

Animator

Stryder Larsen

Walt's Assistant

Jack Mayer

Walt

William Fischer

Self (voice)

Tom Klein

Self (voice)

Antonia Carlotta

Self (Archive Interview)

Walt Disney

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