walt disney pioneered animated movies with his short feature steamboat willie in 1928.
walt disney pioneered animated movies with his short feature steamboat willie in 1928.
who pioneered animated movies with his short feature steamboat willie in 1928?
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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.
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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 2001 mickey mouse cartoon "mickey's april fools", mickey and mortimer get sent to the president's office to claim a million dollars; 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".
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