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 giant turtle which carried the Vanishing Isle upon its back, came back out of the turtle's mouth in the steamboat from this film and was even in Mickey's form, whistling "Turkey in the Straw". In a 2008 movie of the TV series "Futurama" called "The Beast with a Billion Backs" the opening is a parody of "Steamboat Willie". The beginning of series 2 of the TV series "Alexei Sayle's Stuff" (1989) shows a black and white animation entitled "Steamboat Fatty", a parody of "Steamboat Willie". In the " "anime, one of the episodes "Steamboat Willies!", is a play on the