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
Walt Disney Animation Studios November 21, 2018. Since "Alice Comedies" in the 1920s, Walt Disney Animation Studios has produced a series of prominent short films, including the "Mickey Mouse" cartoons and the "Silly Symphonies" series. Many of these shorts provided a medium for the studio to experiment with new technologies that they would use in their filmmaking process, such as the synchronization of sound in "Steamboat Willie" (1928), the integration of the three-strip Technicolor process in "Flowers and Trees" (1932), the multiplane camera in "The Old Mill" (1937), the xerography process in "Goliath II" (1960), and the hand-drawn/CGI hybrid animation in "Off His Rockers"