Chilly Con Carmen (also known as Chile Con Carmen) is a 1930 animated short film which was presented by Carl Laemmle and was produced by Walter Lantz, who would go on to produce Woody Woodpecker with his wife, Gracie Lantz. The film, which was animated by R. C. Hamilton, Tom Palmer and Bill Nolan, features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, as he attempts to engage in a game of bullfighting in order to charm a Mexican girl over his other girlfriend, Miss Hippo.
The film was recorded on Western Electric apparatus, which was an early sound-on-film system. The same sound system was used in another Oswald film entitled Hurdy Gurdy, which includes Oswald being substituted as a dancer for a street performer, after the original one is swallowed up by bubblegum, which was from Oswald. That film was released in the year before this film.
Although the roman numeral year on the title card translates to 1929, the film was copyrighted on January 15, 1930, and was released on February 3 that same year. The film was also released by the film company Universal Pictures, and this film is part of the Universal series of Oswald short films.
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