World News for Students of English

22-12-2014 15:00

The long-lost Walt Disney Christmas film Empty Socks from 1927 has been found and restored in Norway.

The film was found in 2008 during a review of nitrate film in northern Norway, but it was only identified as the missing film earlier this year.

An American animation historian recognised the story as “Empty Socks,” starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a forerunner to Mickey Mouse and the movie had been considered lost.

The Oswald the Lucky Rabbit character was created by Disney and his chief animator in 1927.

They produced a series of 26 films with the character before Mickey Mouse was created in 1928.

The film has now been digitally restored with copies sent to the Walt Disney Company in America, while the original remains in the National Library Archives.

The historic film which lasts for five minutes and 30 seconds, with around one minute missing in the middle, will be shown at the National Library in Norway on the 17th of December.

Difficult words: restore (to fix something to how it was before), nitrate (substances containing nitrogen and oxygen from which movies used to be made), forerunner (something which existed before something similar came), chief (most important), produce (to create and make available to everyone).

Source: www.ondemandnews.com