"The cartoon, called Hungry Hobos, was made in 1928 but the original film of it has been missing since before the Second World War.
The black and white film starred Oswald the Lucky Rabbit who was the prototype of Mickey Mouse.
Walt Disney made 26 films with Oswald in before he started his own company and changed the character into a rodent.
The features and behaviour of Oswald are clearly those of Mickey Mouse - a character that has endured ever since.
The whereabouts of the five minute silent cartoon has baffled experts who believed it would never be seen again.
But, incredibly, it has turned up in the collection of the Huntley Film Archives in Herefordshire where it had been sat for decades."
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