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Home ∼ Steamboat Willie, 1928 starring Mickey Mouse

Steamboat Willie, 1928 starring Mickey Mouse

Published by PublicDomainMovies on June 4, 2025

Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Pat Powers, under the name of Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse, although both characters appeared several months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy. Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey’s films to be produced, but it was the first to be distributed, because Disney, having seen The Jazz Singer, had committed himself to produce one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons.

Steamboat Willie is especially notable for being one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound, as well as one of the first cartoons to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack, which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons, such as Inkwell Studios’ Song Car-Tunes (1924–1926) and Van Beuren Studios’ Dinner Time (1928). Disney believed that synchronized sound was the future of film. Steamboat Willie became the most popular cartoon of its day.


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Steamboat Willie, 1928 starring Mickey Mouse
Posted in Cartoons Tagged 1928, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Walt Disney
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