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
The Itchy & Scratchy Show films "" and "Alien". Chester J. Lampwick created Itchy for the now-lost silent cartoon "Manhattan Madness", in which the mouse brutally attacks and kills an Irishman and Theodore Roosevelt, in 1919 (the year of the first "Felix the Cat" cartoon). However, the character was later stolen by Roger Meyers. Scratchy starred in his first cartoon in 1928, titled "That Happy Cat". The film, a 13-second-long animation showing the cat whistling and tipping his hat, was a commercial failure. Later that year, Itchy and Scratchy starred in their first cartoon together, "Steamboat Itchy", a violent parody of Disney's "Steamboat Willie". Along