Africa Before Dark

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Story byWalt Disney
Ub Iwerks
Produced byCharles Mintz
George Winkler
Africa Before Dark
Poster
Directed byWalt Disney
Ub Iwerks
Story byWalt Disney
Ub Iwerks
Produced byCharles Mintz
George Winkler
Animation byUb Iwerks
Hugh Harman
Friz Freleng
Les Clark
Rollin "Ham" Hamilton
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • February 20, 1928 (1928-02-20)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

Africa Before Dark is a 1928 American animated short film featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Full short

Oswald is big-game hunting in Africa, and is riding an elephant, which is itself riding a bicycle, the elephant rides into an area of ground littered with large rocks, crashes into one of them after narrowly dodging the rest, tips onto its trunk and tusks, and then accidentally sits on Oswald, crushing him flat. The elephant blows air into Oswald, reinflating him. A variety of African animals are playing games, including two monkeys playing tic-tac-toe on a tiger's back. Oswald stealthily approaches with a rifle and shoots numerous shots at the animals, who all vanish. An owl laughs at Oswald, and angered, he shoots the owl. A baby tiger approaches Oswald, kicks him and runs away. Oswald chases it and the tiger runs into a burrow in the ground. Oswald tries to shoot it but the tiger redirects his rifle so that Oswald shoots himself. The tiger runs into a hollow log and Oswald produces an enormous handgun. Instead of the baby tiger, several huge lions emerge from the log, and Oswald's gun dwindles into a tiny pop-gun. Oswald runs away, chased by the lions. He leaps onto his elephant's back and they continue to run from the lions. The elephant then flaps his ears and flies away, carrying Oswald to safety.

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