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Steamboat Willie
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Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Studio. The film has a runtime of 8 minutes and was released in the United States of America. Its initial release date is listed as May 15, 1928, with other publication dates recorded as July 29, 1928, and November 18, 1928. The first performance of the film occurred on November 18, 1928.
The production had a budget of 4986. It is described with the tagline "A Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoon." Various sources provide different review scores, including 7.4/10, 8.7/10, and a vote average of 7.299 based on 605 votes. The film entered the public domain on January 1, 1999, and again on January 1, 2024.
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Film · TMDB
7.3Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
Cast
- Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse / Minnie Mouse / Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Themes
- musical
- steamboat
- black and white
- cartoon mouse
- short film
- anthropomorphic
- mickey
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Walt Disney Ub Iwerks
- Story by
- Walt Disney Ub Iwerks
- Produced by
- Walt Disney
- Starring
- Walt Disney
- Music by
- Wilfred Jackson Bert Lewis
- Animation by
- Ub Iwerks Wilfred Jackson Johnny Cannon Les Clark ( inbetweener )
- Color process
- Black-and-white
- Production company
- Disney Cartoons
- Distributed by
- Celebrity Productions
- Release date
- November 18, 1928 ( 1928-11-18 ) (US)
- Running time
- 7 : 47
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $4,986.69
via Wikipedia infobox
Internet Archive
moviesSteamboat Willie is in the public domain! An explainer for public domain Mickey Mouse.
Watch at Internet Archive →via archive.org
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Series
- Q3311864
- Followed by
- Q615812
- Based on
- Steamboat Bill Jr.
- Main subject
- seamanship
- Creator
- Walt Disney
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Ub Iwerks
- Screenwriter
- Ub Iwerks
- Voice actor
- Walt Disney
- Composer
- Carl Edouarde
- Producer
- Walt Disney
- Production company
- The Walt Disney Company
- Duration
- 7
- FilmAffinity ID
- 596629
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- video.disney.com/watch/steamboat-willie-4ea9de5180b375f7476ada2c
- Image
- Steamboat Willie.png
- Significant event
- première
Show 19 more facts
- publication date
- 1928-05-15
- title
- Steamboat Willie
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- storyboard artist
- Ub Iwerks
- public domain date
- 1999-01-01
- characters
- Pete
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Disney+
- fabrication method
- traditional animation
- date of first performance
- 1928-11-18
- has melody
- Turkey in the Straw
- animator
- Wilfred Jackson
- film crew member
- Walt Disney
- musical conductor
- Carl Edouarde
- set in environment
- boat
- copyright status
- public domain
- Commons category
- Steamboat Willie
- language of work or name
- American English
- review score
- 8.7/10
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by Disney Cartoons and was released by Pat Powers' Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the public debut of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, although both appeared months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy and the then unreleased The Gallopin' Gaucho. Steamboat Willie is the third of Mickey's films to have been produced, but it is the first to have been distributed, because Disney had seen The Jazz Singer (1927) and became determined to produce one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons.
Steamboat Willie is one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound, and one of the first cartoons to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack, which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons, such as Inkwell Studios's Song Car-Tunes (1924–1926), My Old Kentucky Home (1926), and Van Beuren Studios's Dinner Time (1928). Disney believed that synchronized sound was the future of film.
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