Steamboat Willie (1928) |
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| Director(s) | Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney (uncredited) |
| Producer(s) | Walt Disney, Roy O. Disney (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical, Short Films |
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Walt Disney(as Mickey Mouse / Minnie Mouse / The Parrot)
Steamboat Willie
Released
1928
Steamboat Willie
Released
1928
Walt Disney
(as Mickey Mouse / Minnie ...)
Steamboat Willie Overview:
Steamboat Willie (1928) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney (uncredited) and produced by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney.
Steamboat Willie was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1998.
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There are many reasons why Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie cartoon has remained a staple in American animation. Sure, there were cartoons that featured sound in the early 1920′s – Fleishcher’s Inkwell Studios did it with Song Car-Tunes. This also isn’t the “first&... Read full article
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This is one of six cartoons that plays in the Main Street Cinema at Disneyland.
Variety's review of "Steamboat Willie" read: "Not the first animated cartoon to be synchronized with sound effects, but the first to attract favorable attention. This one represents a high order of cartoon ingenuity, cleverly combined with sound effects. The union brought laughs galore. Giggles came so fast at the Colony they were stumbling over each other." (Variety, November 21, 1928.)
According to Roy O. Disney, Walt Disney came up with the idea of putting a soundtrack into his next Mickey Mouse cartoon after watching The Jazz Singer.
Debuted at the Colony Theatre on Broadway, on November 18, 1928.
On its release, this cartoon was paired with the movie Gang War, but it was this cartoon, not the main movie, that movie patrons walked away talking about.