Steamboat Willie and included the songs "Steamboat Bill", a composition popularized by baritone Arthur Collins during the 1910s, and "Turkey in the Straw," a composition popularized within minstrelsy during the 19th century. The title of the film is a parody of the Buster Keaton film "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (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
Steamboat Willie title. Since the release of "Meet the Robinsons" (2007), the scene of Mickey at the ship’s wheel whistling "Steamboat Bill" has been used for Walt Disney Animation Studios' production logo. A modification was used for "Tangled" (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 8-bit version of the logo was used for "Wreck-It Ralph" (2012), and in "Frozen" (2013) and "Moana" (2016), Mickey's whistling was muted to allow their respective opening themes to play out over the