Mickey Mouse and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks again served as the head animator, assisted by Johnny Cannon, Les Clark, Wilfred Jackson and Dick Lundy. This short was intended as a parody of Buster Keaton's "Steamboat Bill, Jr.", first released on May 12 of the same year. Although it was the third Mickey cartoon produced, it was the first to find a distributor, and thus is considered by The Disney Company as Mickey's debut. "Willie" featured changes to Mickey's appearance (in particular, simplifying his eyes to large dots) that established his look for later cartoons and in numerous Walt Disney films. The cartoon was
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics reused from: "Goofy Gymnastics" (1948), "How to Play Golf" (1944) These three videos came out originally for Valentine's Day in 1995-96. They are still released almost every year around the beginning of January through the middle of February, and retail for around $10.00 each. The Walt Disney Cartoon Classics series was released in other different countries. Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Walt Disney Cartoon Classics was a series of cartoon compilations from Disney. It was one of their first attempts to put cartoons on home video, after Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Cartoon Collections. The first 14 volumes, from 1983–1986, came