Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
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- TriviaBefore the copyright for the cartoon was set to expire in 2003, Disney lobbied the US Congress successfully for an extension of copyright protection by 20 years. It officially entered the public domain on January 1, 2024.
- GoofsAt the Podunk Landing site, the cow's tag around her neck disappears for a second when she moos and is back again.
- Alternate versionsAfter Mickey pulls nursing piglets in tune to music, he removes them and plays on their mother's teats like an accordion. This scene has been deleted for Mickey's 25th Anniversary theatrical release in 1953.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show (1968)
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The Most Historic Moment in Animation?
Steamboat Willie (1928)
**** (out of 4)
I think it's quite fair to say that STEAMBOAT WILLIE is the most important animated film in history. While it wasn't the first Mickey Mouse short (it's the third) it is the one that really turned him into a superstar and it took Walt Disney into a while new level unlike anything we've ever seen. The story is pretty simple as Mickey decides to whistle and dance his way throughout the boat. Yes, whoever would have guessed that by simply whistling this little mouse would become a part of cinematic history? Not only is this film historic but it's also quite excellent in its own right. The film has a certainly charm and good-hearted feel to it that it's impossible not to smile with it and it's even more impossible not to want to join in on the whistling. There are countless highlights here but my favorite has always been the sequence where the cow is too small to get loaded onto the boat so Mickey must do something to put meat on his bones.
**** (out of 4)
I think it's quite fair to say that STEAMBOAT WILLIE is the most important animated film in history. While it wasn't the first Mickey Mouse short (it's the third) it is the one that really turned him into a superstar and it took Walt Disney into a while new level unlike anything we've ever seen. The story is pretty simple as Mickey decides to whistle and dance his way throughout the boat. Yes, whoever would have guessed that by simply whistling this little mouse would become a part of cinematic history? Not only is this film historic but it's also quite excellent in its own right. The film has a certainly charm and good-hearted feel to it that it's impossible not to smile with it and it's even more impossible not to want to join in on the whistling. There are countless highlights here but my favorite has always been the sequence where the cow is too small to get loaded onto the boat so Mickey must do something to put meat on his bones.
- Michael_Elliott
- Jul 20, 2015
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- 汽船威利號
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- $4,986 (estimated)
- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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