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Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated
directed by
and . It was produced in black-and-white by
and was released by . The cartoon is considered the debut of
and his girlfriend , although both the characters appeared several months earlier in a test screening of . Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but was the first to be
because Walt Disney, having seen , had committed himself to producing the first fully synchronized sound cartoon.
Steamboat Willie is especially notable for being the first Disney cartoon with , 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'
(1928). Steamboat Willie became the most popular cartoon of its day.
Music for Steamboat Willie was arranged by
and Bert Lewis, and included the songs "Steamboat Bill", a composition popularized by baritone
during the 1910s, and "" , a composition popularized within minstrelsy during the 19th century. The title of the film is a parody of the
(1928), itself a reference to the song by Collins. Walt Disney performed all of the voices in the film, although there is little intelligible dialogue.
While the film has received some criticism, it has also received wide critical acclaim, not only for introducing one of the world's most popular cartoon characters, but for its technical innovation. In 1994 members of the animation field voted Steamboat Willie 13th in the book , which listed the greatest cartoons of all time. In 1998 the film was selected for preservation in the United States'
for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
(left) confronts
(right) on the
of the steamboat.
pilots a river , suggesting that he himself is the captain. He cheerfully whistles "Steamboat Bill" and sounds the boat's three whistles. Soon the real captain, , appears and orders Mickey off the . Mickey blows a raspberry at Pete, and then Pete attempts to kick him but Mickey rushes away in time and Pete kicks himself in the rear accidentally. Mickey rushes down the stairs, slips on a bar of soap on the boat's deck and lands in a bucket of water. A parrot laughs at him, and Mickey throws the bucket at it.
Pete, who has been watching the whole thing, pilots the steamboat himself. He bites off some
and spits into the wind. The spit flies backward and rings the boat's bell. Amused by this Pete spits again, but it hits himself in the face, making him fuss.
The steamboat makes a stop at "Podunk Landing" to pick up a cargo of various livestock. Just as they set off again, Minnie appears, running to catch the boat before it leaves. Mickey does not see her in time, but she runs after the boat along the shore and Mickey takes her on board by hooking the cargo crane to her underwear.
Landing on deck, Minnie accidentally drops a guitar and some sheet music for the song "" which are eaten by a goat. The two mice use the goat's body as a
which they play by turning its tail like a crank. Mickey uses various objects on the boat as percussion accompaniment and "plays" the animals like musical instruments. This ends with them using a cow's teeth to play the song as a .
Finally Captain Pete is unamused and puts Mickey to work peeling potatoes. In the potato bin, another parrot appears in the port hole and laughs at him again. The mouse throws a peeled potato at him, knocking him into the river below. The film ends with Mickey laughing.
According to , Walt Disney was inspired to create a sound cartoon after watching
(1927). Disney had intended for Mickey Mouse to be the new star character to replace
after he lost the rights to the character to . However, the first two Mickey Mouse films produced, silent versions of
and , had failed to impress audiences and gain a . 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 not the first cartoon with synchronized sound. Starting in May 1924 and continuing through September 1926,
produced 19 sound cartoons, part of the
series, using the
sound-on-film process. However, the Song Car-Tunes failed to keep the sound fully synchronized, while Steamboat Willie was produced using a
to keep his musicians on the beat. As little as one month before Steamboat Willie was released,
which also used a soundtrack, but Dinner Time was not a financial success.
In June 1927, producer
made an unsuccessful takeover bid for 's . In the aftermath, Powers hired a former DeForest technician, William Garrity, to produce a cloned version of the Phonofilm system, which Powers dubbed "Powers Cinephone". By then, DeForest was in too weak a financial position to mount a legal challenge against Powers for patent infringement. Powers convinced Disney to use Cinephone for Steamboat Willie; their business relationship lasted until 1930, when Powers and Disney had a falling-out over money and Powers hired away Disney's lead animator, .[]
The production of Steamboat Willie took place between July and September 1928 with an estimated budget of $4,986. There was initially some doubt among the animators that a sound cartoon would appear believable enough, so before a soundtrack was produced, Disney arranged for a screening of the film to a test audience with live sound to accompany it. This screening took place on July 29 with Steamboat Willie only partly finished. The audience sat in a room adjoining Walt's office. Roy placed the movie projector outdoors and the film was projected through a window so that the sound of the projector would not interfere with the live sound.
set up a bedsheet behind the movie screen behind which he placed a microphone connected to speakers where the audience would sit. The live sound was produced from behind the bedsheet.
played the music on a , Ub Iwerks banged on pots and pans for the percussion segment, and Johnny Cannon provided sound effects with various devices, including
for bells. Walt himself provided what little dialogue there was to the film, mostly grunts, laughs, and squawks. After several practices, they were ready for the audience, which consisted of Disney employees and their wives.
The response of the audience was extremely positive, and it gave Walt the confidence to move forward and complete the film. He said later in recalling this first viewing, "The effect on our little audience was nothing less than electric. They responded almost instinctively to this union of sound and motion. I thought they were kidding me. So they put me in the audience and ran the action again. It was terrible, but it was wonderful! And it was something new!" Iwerks said, "I've never been so thrilled in my life. Nothing since has ever equaled it."
Walt traveled to New York City to hire a company to produce the sound system. He eventually settled on 's
system, created by Powers using an updated version of 's
system without giving De Forest any credit, a decision he would later regret.
The music in the final soundtrack was performed by the
and was conducted by . The brothers Joe and Lew Green from the band also assisted in timing the music to the film. The first attempt to synchronize the recording with the film, done on September 15, 1928, was a disaster. Disney had to sell his
in order to finance a second recording. This was a success with the addition of a filmed
to keep the tempo.
in New York, seen in 2007, where Steamboat Willie was first shown in 1928. The venue was known as "Universal's Colony Theatre" at the time.
Steamboat Willie premiered at
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 . Steamboat Willie was an immediate hit while Gang War is all but forgotten today.
The success of Steamboat Willie not only led to international fame for Walt Disney, but for Mickey as well. On November 21,
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.
Image used by many criticizing Disney and the 1998
The film has been the center of a variety of controversies regarding . The copyright of the film has been extended by an act of the . However, recent evidence suggests that the film may be in the
owing to technicalities related to the original copyright notice.
The film has been the center of some attention regarding the 1998
passed in the United States. Steamboat Willie has been close to entering the public domain in the U.S. several times. Each time, copyright protection has been extended. It could have entered public domain in four different years: first in 1956, renewed to 1984, then to 2003 by the , and finally to the current public domain date of 2023 by the Copyright Term Extension Act (also known pejoratively as the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act") of 1998. The U.S. copyright on Steamboat Willie will be in effect through 2023 unless there is another extension of the law.
It has been claimed that these extensions were a response by Congress to extensive lobbying by The Walt Disney Company.
In the 1990s, former Disney researcher Gregory S. Brown determined that the film was likely in U.S. public domain already due to errors in the original copyright formulation. In particular, the original film's copyright notice had two additional names between Disney and the copyright statement. Thus, under the rules of the , all copyright claims would be null.
suggested that one of his law school students look into Brown's claim as a class project. Lauren Vanpelt took up the challenge and produced a paper agreeing with Brown's claim. She posted her project on the Internet in 1999. Disney later threatened to sue a
law student who wrote a paper confirming Brown's claims, alleging that publishing the paper could be .
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Steamboat Willie themed levels are featured in the video games
(2005), and
(2010). Furthermore, in
(2012), a "Steamboat Willie" outfit can be obtained for Mickey.
The fourth-season episode of , "" features a short but nearly frame-for-frame parody of the opening scene of Steamboat Willie entitled Steamboat Itchy.
In the 1998 film , 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' 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 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
(1996). , having been swallowed by the 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
the opening is a parody of Steamboat Willie.
The beginning of series 2 of the TV series
(1989) shows a black and white animation entitled Steamboat Fatty, a parody of Steamboat Willie.
anime, one of the episodes "Steamboat Willies!", is a play on the title.
Since the release of
(2007), the scene of Mickey at the wheel of the steamboat whistling "Steamboat Bill" has been used for ' . A modification was used for
(2010) to mark that film as the 50th in their Classics line, the text saying "Walt Disney Animation Studios: 50th Animated Motion Picture" with the Mickey scene in the "0". An
version of the logo was used for
(2012), and in
(2013) and
(2016), Mickey's whistling was muted to allow their respective opening themes to play out over the logo.
This cartoon was featured in
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
1928 July – First test screening
1928 November – Original theatrical release
1972 – , episode #33: "Tugboats" (TV)
1990s – , episode #45 (TV)
1997 – Ink & Paint Club, episode #2 "Mickey Landmarks" (TV)
2001 – The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (VHS)
2005 – Vintage Mickey (DVD)
Ongoing –
Bonus material commentary by , "Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White"
January 8, 2013, at the . the product description of this Disney-produced DVD set describes Steamboat Willie as Mickey's debut
November 21, 2011, at the . at Screen Savour
website, published by Disney, mentions the connection between the films.
The only spoken words are when Pete mutters "Get down there!" and several times the parrot says "Help! Man overboard!" and "Hope you don't feel hurt, big boy!" - see
Finch, Christopher (1995). The Art of Walt Disney from Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdom. New York: Harry N. Abrahms, Inc., Publishers. p. 23.  .
Fanning, Jim (1994). Walt Disney. Chelsea House Publishers.  .
March 27, 2008, at the . at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts
November 12, 2012, at the . 1691 Broadway, between 52nd and 53rd streets, now The Broadway Theater.
Lawrence Lessig, Copyright's First Amendment, 48 UCLA L. Rev.
Lessig, Free Culture, p. 220
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