"Bill, Jr."" McQueen stands in Keaton's place as a house facade falls over him. This film was shot from multiple angles, and the scene repeats over and over again while McQueen stands seemingly unaffected. Steamboat Bill, Jr. Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers. It was not a box-office success and became the last picture Keaton made for United Artists. Keaton ended up moving to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he made one last film in his trademark"
"Steamboat Willie 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 Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie, although both the 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 was the first to be distributed because Walt Disney, having seen ""The Jazz Singer"", had committed himself to producing one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons."
"Walt Disney's ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), which was released six months later and is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse. The famous falling house stunt has been re-created several times on film and television (although with lighter materials and more contemporary safety measures in place) including the 1991 ""MacGyver"" episode ""Deadly Silents""; the 2004 ""Arrested Development"" episode ""The One Where They Build a House"" (performed by the show's character named Buster); and episode 7 in the first season of ""Lucha Underground"", with a ladder. ""Deadpan"", a 1997 work by English film artist and director Steve McQueen, was also inspired by ""Steamboat"
"the third of the Mickey Mouse series. The short film showed an anthropomorphic mouse named Mickey neglecting his work on a steamboat to instead make music using the animals aboard the boat. Even though many wrongly believe Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon with synchronized sound, since May 1924 and continuing through September 1926, Dave and Max Fleischer's Inkwell Studios produced 19 sound cartoons, part of the Song Car-Tunes series, using the Phonofilm ""sound-on-film"" process. In 1933, Warner Brothers Cartoons was founded. While Disney's studio was known for its releases being strictly controlled by Walt Disney himself, Warner brothers allowed"
"logo. This cartoon was featured in ""Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse"" (2002). The Australian Perth Mint releases a 1 kg Gold coin in honour of ""Steamboat Willie"". The AU$5,000 coin can sell for AU$69,700 as an official Disney licensed product. ""Steamboat Willie"" was inducted to the National Film Registry in 1998. Steamboat Willie 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 Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie, although both"
"""Kingdom Hearts II"" (2005), and ""Epic Mickey"" (2010). Furthermore, in """" (2012), a ""Steamboat Willie"" outfit can be obtained for Mickey. The fourth-season episode of ""The Simpsons"", """" features a short but nearly frame-for-frame parody of the opening scene of Steamboat Willie entitled ""Steamboat Itchy"". In the 1998 film ""Saving Private Ryan"", set in 1944, a German POW tries to win the sympathy of his American captors by mentioning ""Steamboat Willie"", even mimicking the sound of the boat whistle from the film. The unnamed character appears in the credits as ""Steamboat Willie"". In the 2000 Mickey Mouse cartoon ""April Fools'"
"being they were still employed by Disney. This short would be the last they animated under this somewhat awkward situation. Mickey was first seen in a test screening of the cartoon short ""Plane Crazy"", on May 15, 1928, but it failed to impress the audience and, to add insult to injury, Walt could not find a distributor. Though understandably disappointed, Walt went on to produce a second Mickey short, ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"", which was also not released for lack of a distributor. ""Steamboat Willie"" was first released on November 18, 1928, in New York. It was co-directed by Walt Disney"
"The Gallopin' Gaucho The Gallopin' Gaucho is the second short film featuring Mickey Mouse to be produced, following ""Plane Crazy"" and preceding ""Steamboat Willie"". The Disney studios completed the silent version in August 1928, but did not release it in order to work on ""Steamboat Willie"". It was released, with sound, after ""Steamboat Willie"". Both Mickey and Minnie Mouse had already made their debuts with the release of ""Plane Crazy"" on May 15, 1928. However that film had also failed to catch the attention of distributors when first produced as a silent film. ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"" was a second attempt"
"a sound cartoon after watching ""The Jazz Singer"" (1927). Disney had intended for Mickey Mouse to be the new star character to replace Oswald the Lucky Rabbit after he lost the rights to the character to Charles Mintz. However, the first two ""Mickey Mouse"" films produced, silent versions of ""Plane Crazy"" and ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"", had failed to impress audiences and gain a distributor. Disney believed that adding sound to a cartoon would greatly increase its appeal. One theatre owner said to Walt, ""Your stupid brain and your stupid mouse character can get out of my theatre."" ""Steamboat Willie"" was"
"technical innovation. In 1994 members of the animation field voted ""Steamboat Willie"" 13th in the book ""The 50 Greatest Cartoons"", which listed the greatest cartoons of all time. In 1998 the film was selected for preservation in the United States' National Film Registry for being deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" Mickey Mouse pilots a river steamboat, suggesting that he himself is the captain. He cheerfully whistles ""Steamboat Bill"" and sounds the boat's three whistles. Soon the real captain, Pete, appears and orders Mickey off the bridge. Mickey blows a raspberry at Pete, and then Pete attempts to kick him"
"New York"" (1928), the first all-talking full-length feature film. The animated short film ""Dinner Time"" (1928) by the Van Beuren Studios was among the first animated sound films. It was followed a few months later by the animated short film ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), the first sound film by the Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was the first commercially successful animated short film and introduced the character Mickey Mouse.""Steamboat Willie"" was the first cartoon to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack, which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons. It became the most popular cartoon of its day. For much of 1928, Warner"
"a paper confirming Brown's claims, alleging that publishing the paper could be slander of title. A full 30 seconds was removed from some versions of ""Steamboat Willie"" because they might be considered cruelty to animals, including Mickey pulling a cat's tail and then swinging the cat by the tail above his head, picking up a nursing sow and ""playing"" her babies, and using a duck as bagpipes. The full version of the film was included on the ""Walt Disney Treasures"" DVD set ""Mickey Mouse in Black and White."" ""Steamboat Willie"" themed levels are featured in the video games """" (1994),"
"original music. This role has been variously attributed to Wilfred Jackson, Carl Stalling and Bert Lewis, but identification remains uncertain. Walt Disney himself was voice actor for both Mickey and Minnie and would remain the source of Mickey's voice through 1946 for theatrical cartoons. Jimmy MacDonald took over the role in 1946, but Walt provided Mickey's voice again from 1955 to 1959 for ""The Mickey Mouse Club"" television series on ABC. Audiences at the time of ""Steamboat Willie""'s release were reportedly impressed by the use of sound for comedic purposes. Sound films or ""talkies"" were still considered innovative. The first"
"decade by unveiling, in 1929, the first all-color, all-talking feature film, ""On with the Show"". Cartoon shorts were popular in movie theaters during this time. In the late 1920s, Walt Disney emerged. Mickey Mouse made his debut in ""Steamboat Willie"" on November 18, 1928, at the Colony Theater in New York City. Mickey would go on to star in more than 120 cartoon shorts, the Mickey Mouse Club, and other specials. This would jump-start Disney and lead to creation of other characters going into the 1930s. Oswald, a character created by Disney, before Mickey, in 1927, was contracted by Universal"
"and starred in several Disney produced films. Ub Iwerks refined Disney's initial design of Mickey Mouse. Disney's first sound film ""Steamboat Willie"", a cartoon starring Mickey, was released on November 18, 1928 through Pat Powers' distribution company. It was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon released, but the third to be created, behind ""Plane Crazy"" and ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"". ""Steamboat Willie"" was an immediate smash hit, and its initial success was attributed not just to Mickey's appeal as a character, but to the fact that it was the first cartoon to feature synchronized sound. Disney used Pat Powers' Cinephone system,"
"series. Examples of this include several ""Silly Symphonies"", ""Don Donald"" (1937), and ""Goofy and Wilbur"" (1939). ""Mickey Mouse"" began production in April 1928 after the Disney studio lost the license to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The first two films, ""Plane Crazy"" and ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"", were previewed in theaters but failed to pick up a distributor. For the third film, Disney added synchronized sound, a technology that was still in its early stages at the time. ""Steamboat Willie"" debuted in New York in November 1928 and was an instant success. The revenues from the film provided the studio with much"
"sell his Moon roadster in order to finance a second recording. This was a success with the addition of a filmed bouncing ball to keep the tempo. ""Steamboat Willie"" premiered at Universal's Colony Theater in New York City on November 18, 1928. The film was distributed by Celebrity Productions and its initial run lasted two weeks. Disney was paid $500 a week which was considered a large amount at the time. It played ahead of the independent feature film ""Gang War"". ""Steamboat Willie"" was an immediate hit while ""Gang War"" is all but forgotten today. The success of ""Steamboat Willie"""
"The real first cartoon with synchronized sound, was My Old Kentucky Home. ""Steamboat Willie"" is especially notable for being the first Disney cartoon with synchronized sound, including character sounds and a musical score. Disney understood from early on that synchronized sound was the future of film. It was the first cartoon to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons such as Inkwell Studios' ""Song Car-Tunes"" (1924–1927) and Van Beuren Studios' ""Dinner Time"" (1928). ""Steamboat Willie"" became the most popular cartoon of its day. Music for ""Steamboat Willie"" was arranged by Wilfred Jackson and Bert Lewis,"
"the sound era of the series as 'Billy McGuire'. Mickey's Big Game Hunt Mickey's Big Game Hunt is a 1928 silent short film in Larry Darmour's ""Mickey McGuire"" series starring a young Mickey Rooney. Directed by Albert Herman, the two-reel short was released to theaters on December 23, 1928 by FBO. Mickey and the Scorpions decide to go on a big game hunt. The kids go out into the woods, only find themselves up against real wild animals (actually escaped animals from a zoo). This is one of the few known silent shorts with Billy Barty portraying the role of"
"the time. The patents for animation systems using drawings on transparent celluloid sheets and a registration system that kept images steady were held under this firm. Bray also developed the basic division of labor still used in animation studios (animators, assistants, layout artists, etc.). The biggest name in animation studios during this early time was Disney Brothers Animation Studio (now known as Walt Disney Animation Studios), co-founded by Walt and Roy O. Disney. Started on October 16, 1923, the studio went on to make its first animated short, Steamboat Willie in 1928, to much critical success, though the real breakthrough"
"October 1928, a month before Walt Disney's ""Steamboat Willie"", which premiered on 18 November 1928 at the 79th Street Theater in New York City. ""Dinner Time"", however, was not successful with audiences and Disney's film would go on to be widely touted as the first synchronized sound cartoon. Max and Dave Fleischer released 36 cartoons in their ""Song Car-Tunes"" series—with about 19 of those made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film system—between May 1924 and September 1926. Ironically, ""Steamboat Willie"" was released by Pat Powers' Celebrity Pictures using the Powers Cinephone sound-on-film system, which was cloned from the Phonofilm system without"
"created by Powers using Lee de Forest's Phonofilm system. ""Steamboat Willie"" premiered at B. S. Moss's Colony Theater in New York City, now The Broadway Theatre. Disney's ""Plane Crazy"" and ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"" were then retrofitted with synchronized sound tracks and re-released successfully in 1929. Disney continued to produce cartoons with Mickey Mouse and other characters, and began the Silly Symphony series with Columbia Pictures signing on as Symphonies distributor in August 1929. In September 1929, theater manager Harry Woodin requested permission to start a Mickey Mouse Club which Walt approved. In November, test comics strips were sent to King"
"losing money. Universal owned the rights to the ""Oswald the Lucky Rabbit"" character, although Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks had created Oswald, and their films had enjoyed a successful theatrical run. After Charles Mintz had unsuccessfully demanded that Disney accept a lower fee for producing the property, Mintz produced the films with his own group of animators. Instead, Disney and Iwerks created Mickey Mouse, who in 1928 starred in the first ""sync"" sound animated short, ""Steamboat Willie"". This moment effectively launched Walt Disney Studios' foothold, while Universal became a minor player in film animation. Universal subsequently severed its link to"
"had originally been silent releases) and their new release added to Mickey's success and popularity. A fourth Mickey short, ""The Barn Dance"", was also put into production; however, Mickey does not actually speak until ""The Karnival Kid"" in 1929 when his first spoken words were ""Hot dogs, Hot dogs!"" After ""Steamboat Willie"" was released, Mickey became a close competitor to Felix the Cat, and his popularity would grow as he was continuously featured in sound cartoons. By 1929, Felix would lose popularity among theater audiences, and Pat Sullivan decided to produce all future Felix cartoons in sound as a result."
"not only led to international fame for Walt Disney, but for Mickey as well. On November 21, ""Variety"" magazine published a review which read in part ""Not the first animated cartoon to be synchronized with sound effects, but the first to attract favorable attention. [""Steamboat Willie""] represents a high order of cartoon ingenuity, cleverly combined with sound effects. The union brought laughs galore. Giggles came so fast at the Colony [Theater] they were stumbling over each other."" The response led to the two previous ""Mickey"" films being reproduced as sound cartoons and given wide theatrical releases. The film has been"
"giant turtle which carried the Vanishing Isle upon its back, came back out of the turtle's mouth in the steamboat from this film and was even in Mickey's form, whistling ""Turkey in the Straw"". In a 2008 movie of the TV series ""Futurama"" called ""The Beast with a Billion Backs"" the opening is a parody of ""Steamboat Willie"". The beginning of series 2 of the TV series ""Alexei Sayle's Stuff"" (1989) shows a black and white animation entitled ""Steamboat Fatty"", a parody of ""Steamboat Willie"". In the "" ""anime, one of the episodes ""Steamboat Willies!"", is a play on the"
"Carl Stalling and businessman Pat Powers, who provided Disney with his bootlegged ""Cinephone"" sound-on-film process. Subsequently, the third ""Mickey Mouse"" cartoon, ""Steamboat Willie"", became Disney's first cartoon with synchronized sound and was a major success upon its November 1928 debut at the West 57th Theatre in New York City. The ""Mickey Mouse"" series of sound cartoons, distributed by Powers through Celebrity Productions, quickly became the most popular cartoon series in the United States. A second Disney series of sound cartoons, the ""Silly Symphonies"", debuted in 1929 with ""The Skeleton Dance"". In 1930, disputes over finances between Disney and Powers led"
"""Steamboat Willie"". During a stopover in Kansas City, Disney paid a visit to his old acquaintance Carl Stalling, then an organist at the Isis Theatre, to compose scores for his first two Mickey shorts, ""Plane Crazy"" and ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"". While there, Stalling proposed to Disney a series of ""musical novelty"" cartoons combining music and animation, which would become the genesis for the Silly Symphony series, and pitched an idea about skeletons dancing in a graveyard. Stalling would eventually join Disney's studio as staff composer. Animation on ""The Skeleton Dance"" began in January 1929, with Ub Iwerks animating the majority"
"Day"", Mickey and Mortimer get sent to the President's office to claim a million dollars. But Mortimer pretends to be Mickey and he is shown acting in ""Steamboat Willie"". In Toontown Online, one of the buildings on Silly Street is named """"Steamboat Willie""."" In the Goofy cartoon ""How to Be a Waiter"" (1999), Goofy is shown an example of a movie, and ""Steamboat Willie"" is shown. But in that short, ""Willie"" is a shortened version titled ""Steamboat Goofy"". The opening scene was parodied towards the end of ""Aladdin and the King of Thieves"" (1996). Genie, having been swallowed by the"
"be the one to receive credit for the creation of Mickey Mouse. In 1928, ""Plane Crazy"" became the first entry into the Mickey Mouse series; however, it was not released because of a poor reaction from test screenings and failed to gain a distributor. The second Mickey Mouse cartoon ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"" also failed to gain attention of the audience and a distributor. Disney knew what was missing: sound. Sound film had been captivating audiences since 1927 with ""The Jazz Singer"" and Walt decided that the next cartoon ""Steamboat Willie"" would have sound. ""Steamboat Willie"" was not the first sound"
"""Steamboat Bill, Jr."", released earlier that year by Buster Keaton. Under current US law, ""Steamboat Willie"" might be challenged for copyright violation as a ""derivative work"" of ""Steamboat Bill, Jr."" However, under copyright laws in 1928, this type of cultural production was unproblematic. This change has had a chilling effect on creativity, serving to reduce competition to the established media companies, as suggested by the subtitle to the original hardback edition of ""Free Culture"". Similarly, in the vigorous Japanese comic market, where ""Some 40 percent of publications are comics, and 30 percent of publication revenue derives from comics"", one main"
"Mickey's Big Game Hunt Mickey's Big Game Hunt is a 1928 silent short film in Larry Darmour's ""Mickey McGuire"" series starring a young Mickey Rooney. Directed by Albert Herman, the two-reel short was released to theaters on December 23, 1928 by FBO. Mickey and the Scorpions decide to go on a big game hunt. The kids go out into the woods, only find themselves up against real wild animals (actually escaped animals from a zoo). This is one of the few known silent shorts with Billy Barty portraying the role of 'Mickey's Kid Brudder'. He would appear throughout most of"
"""Steamboat Willie"" (1928). Mickey also whistles music from ""Steamboat Willie"" before he goes into the laboratory. The wallet also features a library card from the fictional 'Guillard County Library', a reference to actor/director/producer/writer Stuart Gillard. The theme song from ""Steamboat Willie"" was also used for the closing credits. Warner Bros.' seminal horror film ""The Exorcist"" (1973) is referenced in a shot where Mickey first arrives at Frankenollie's laboratory, the imagery mirroring Father Merrin's arrival at Regan MacNeil's house. Zazu from ""The Lion King"" (1994) briefly appears twice; once when Mickey is sucked down into the laboratory and again when Julius"