Steamboat Bill, Jr. Steamboat Bill, Jr. Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers. It was not a box-office success and became the last picture Keaton made for United Artists. Keaton ended up moving to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he made one last film in his trademark style, "The Cameraman", before his creative control was taken away by the studio. Charles Reisner directed the film, and the credited story writer was Carl Harbaugh, although Keaton wrote the script and publicly called
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"