A Universal Walter Lantz animated short. Oswald and his buddy pegleg parrot are shipwrecked.

Pinto Colvig, Tex Avery, Walter Lantz, William Nolan, Manuel Moreno
United States

If you have seven minutes to kill and you like cartoons where physics don't exist, The Shipwreck is totally worth your time. You'll probably hate it if you need a story that actually makes sense or if old-timey animation styles creep you out. It starts with Oswald on a raft with a parrot that has a peg leg. A peg leg o...

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"If you have seven minutes to kill and you like cartoons where physics don't exist, The Shipwreck is totally worth your time. You'll probably hate it if you need a story that actually makes sense or if old-timey animation styles creep you out. It starts with Oswald on a raft with a parrot that has a peg leg. A peg leg on a bird! I couldn't stop looking at that wooden leg every time the bird moved. It’s such a small, dumb detail that makes the whole opening better. The way they use the parrot’s be..."

