youtube/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4 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[2] and his girlfriend Minnie, despite both the characters appearing several months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy. Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickeys films to be produced, but was the first to be distributed.[3] The film is also notable for being the first cartoon with synchronized sound. 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). Also distinguishing Steamboat Willie from earlier sound cartoons was the level of popularity.[4] Music for Steamboat Willie was arranged by Wilfred Jackson and Bert Lewis, and included the songs Steamboat Bill, a 1911 Arthur Collins composition, and Turkey in the Straw. The title of the film is a parody of the Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928),[5] itself a reference to the song by Collins. Walt Disney performed all of the voices in the film, although there is little intelligible dialogue.[6]
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