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A film strip bought by a teenager in Japan 70 years ago has been confirmed as a lost work of Walt Disney, featuring Mickey Mouse's predecessor.

Yasushi Wantanabe, 84, purchased the reel for 500 yen ($4.40 in today's money) at a toy store in Osaka and had no idea his acquisition was a part of Disney's legacy.

The two-minute black-and-white footage features 'Oswald The Lucky Rabbit', a long-eared character with a button nose which inspired Mickey Mouse.

Mr Wantanabe, who is an anime historian, read a book about Oswald and remembered his decades-old reel.

A film strip bought by a teenager in Japan 70 years ago has been confirmed as a lost work of Walt Disney, featuring Mickey Mouse's predecessor.

The book claimed that seven of the 26 short films drawn by Walt had gone missing and one of them turned out to be Mr Watanabe's.

He told Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper: 'As I've been a Disney fan for many years, I'm happy I was able to play a role.'

It was labelled in Japanese 'Mickey Manga Spide' - Mickey Cartoon Speedy in English - and featured a dog policeman on a motorbike chasing Oswald and his girlfriend in a car.

The two-minute black-and-white footage features 'Oswald The Lucky Rabbit', a long-eared character with a button nose which inspired Mickey Mouse

Mr Wantanabe (pictured), who is an anime historian, read a book about Oswald and remembered his decades-old reel

As the trio speed around valleys and along roads, the characters and the vehicles stretched and shrank, the Asahi reported, using a technique that later featured commonly in Disney works.

The newspaper contacted the author of the book and the Walt Disney Archives and confirmed that the reel was indeed one of the missing films, originally titled 'Neck 'n' Neck.'

'We're absolutely delighted to learn that a copy of the lost film exists,' Becky Cline, director of the archives, told the newspaper.

Walt Disney's creation Oswald inspired the way the modern day Mickey Mouse looks

Another cartoon featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit - 'Empty Socks' (pictured) - was discovered in 2014 by Norway's National Library

His childhood purchase is now housed at the Kobe Planet Film Archive, and another film showing 50 seconds of the same cartoon has also been unearthed at the Toy Film Museum in Kyoto, the newspaper said.

In 2014, Norway's National Library announced it had discovered a copy of a Walt Disney cartoon featuring Oswald, which had been thought lost.

The cartoon, titled 'Empty Socks,' was the first Christmas film made by the US entertainment giant and was discovered during an inventory at the library's facility near the Arctic Circle.

A year later, another short film featuring Oswald was uncovered in Britain and screened for the first time in 87 years. 

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