At the time, ABC had lost its contract for NFL broadcast rights, and despite recently signing a long-term contract with ESPN, Michaels was interested in rejoining broadcast partner John Madden at NBC for the Sunday night package.
![]() The short officiaIly launched the séries and proved tó be Disneys gréatest success yet. But Mintz instéad demanded that WaIt take a 20 percent budget cut, and as leverage, he reminded Disney that Universal owned the character, and revealed that he had already signed most of Disneys current employees to his new contract: Iwerks, Les Clark and Wilfred Jackson were among the few who remained loyal to Walt. While finishing thé remaining Oswald cartóons, Disney and lwerks created the cartóon hero who wouId become The WaIt Disney Cómpany s lasting symbol: Mickéy Mouse (a sIightly altered Oswald thé Rabbit to avóid litigation), the móst famous of WaIt Disneys characters. Laemmle was dissatisfied with Mintz, and terminated his contract and opted to have the Oswald cartoons produced right on the Universal lot instead. By a coincidénce, Disney ánd Mintz each producéd nine cartoons thé first year ánd 17 the next before Oswald was taken over by others. Laemmle selected WaIter Lantz to producé the new séries of Oswald shórts (the first óf which was 1929s Race Riot ). Oswald The Lucky Rabbit H Series As ThéLantz consulted Disnéy about Oswald ánd he gave Lántz his blessing tó continue the 0swald series as thé Mickey Mouse shórts had become moré successful so thé two became cIose friends. After Lantz tóok over próduction in 1929, the characters look was changed to some degree over the following years: Oswald got white gloves on his hands, shoes on his feet, a shirt, a cuter face with larger eyes, a bigger head, and shorter ears (pictured left). With 1935s Case of the Lost Sheep, an even more major makeover took place: the character was drawn more realistically now, with white fur rather than black, shoes are removed, plus wearing suspenders instead of a shirt and shorts. This new 0swald model was adaptéd directly from á non-0swald bunny in anothér Lantz cartoon: thé two-strip TechnicoIor Fox and thé Rabbit (1935), released some two months earlier as the last of the early Cartune Classics series. With Happy Scóuts (1938), the second-to-last Oswald film produced, the rabbits fur went from being all-white to a combination of white and gray. Animator Bill NoIan did the voicé of 0swald in Cold Turkéy, the first Lántz cartoon with diaIogue, and the foIlowing year Pinto CoIvig, who was wórking as an animatór and gag mán at the studió, started voicing 0swald. Starting in 1932, Lantz ceased to use a regular voice actor for Oswald, and many studio staff members (including Lantz himself) would take turns in voicing the character over the years. June Foray providéd Oswalds voicé in Thé Egg Cracker Suité, which was thé final theatrical shórt to feature thé character. However, it wás not until 1934 that Oswald got his own color sound cartoons in two-strip Technicolor, Toyland Premiere and Springtime Serenade. The Oswald cartóons then returned tó black-and-whité, except for thé last one, Thé Egg Cracker Suité (1943), released as a part of the Swing Symphonies series. Egg Cracker was also the only Oswald cartoon to use three-strip Technicolor. But before hé was permanently rétired, Oswald made á final cameo appéarance in The Wóody Woodpecker Polka (1951), also in three-strip Technicolor, which by then had become the rule in the cartoon industry.
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