Mexico (film)
1930 short animated film
Mexico is a 1930 short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions and stars Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The soundtrack of the cartoon was missing for many years, until the discovery of a sound print in 2013. Then in 2014 the soundtrack version of the cartoon was uploaded to YouTube, but was deleted due to the YouTube account being terminated. In 2015 and 2016 two other youtubers uploaded the soundtrack version of the cartoon.
Plot
Oswald and a big bear are competing each other in a cockfight. While the bear's rooster is larger and stronger, Oswald's is more agile. After his cock gets knocked down by a hard impact, Oswald feeds it some special seeds. The seeds benefit the rabbit's chicken significantly until the bear's is taken down for good.
Following his victory at the cockfighting event, Oswald is being paraded in a limousine. On the way, he spots a female cat whom he finds very attractive.
“Mexico (film)” enters the record as 1930 short animated film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mexico, film and short can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6826185. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1930, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
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