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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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.
Is actually not the first synchronized sound cartoon. Walt Disney's rival Max Fleischer had produced a series of sound Bouncing Ball "Song Car-Tunes", which featured synchronized dialogue and music starting in 1926. The first to be produced was My Old Kentucky Home.
Before the copyright for "Steamboat Willie" expired was set to expire in 2003, Disney lobbied the US Congress successfully for an extension of copyright protection by twenty years. Because of this law, "Steamboat Willie" will not enter the public domain until 2023.
Felix the Cat animator Hal Walker is quoted in John Canemaker's "Felix: the Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat" saying that: "Disney put us out of business with his sound".
Debuted at the Colony Theatre on Broadway, on November 18, 1928.