Steamboat Willie (1928) | |
| Director(s) | Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney (uncredited) |
| Producer(s) | Walt Disney, Roy O. Disney (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical, Short Films |
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Steamboat Willie (1928) was a Animation - Family Film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and produced by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney.
Steamboat Willie was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1998.
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By samcooper on Apr 13, 2013 From Pretty Clever FilmsThere are many reasons why Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie cartoon has remained a staple in American animation.?Sure, there were cartoons that featured sound in the early 1920′s – Fleishcher’s Inkwell Studios did it with Song Car-Tunes. This also isn’t the “first&#... Read full article
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Is actually not the first synchronized sound cartoon. Walt Disney's rival Max Fleischer had produced a series of sound Bouncing Ball "Song Car-Tunes", which featured synchronized dialogue and music starting in 1926. The first to be produced was My Old Kentucky Home.
Felix the Cat animator Hal Walker is quoted in John Canemaker's "Felix: the Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat" saying that: "Disney put us out of business with his sound".
On its release, this cartoon was paired with the movie Gang War, but it was this cartoon, not the main movie, that movie patrons walked away talking about.
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Felix the Cat animator Hal Walker is quoted in John Canemaker's "Felix: the Twisted Tale of the World's Most Famous Cat" saying that: "Disney put us out of business with his sound".
On its release, this cartoon was paired with the movie Gang War, but it was this cartoon, not the main movie, that movie patrons walked away talking about.
read more facts about Steamboat Willie...
