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 Opry House by Walt Disney Productions. It appears in black and white, and the audio was recorded using Pat Powers's cinephone system. It was animated mostly by Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney's first employee who later became known as a “Disney Legend”. The short became the most expensive early Disney short, its negative cost being almost $2,500 more than the "Steamboat Willie" cartoon produced just a year prior. This short is an early example of how the Disney studio's animated shorts became more sophisticated than previous ones. The short shows more realistic animating. The early Disney cartoons, like "Steamboat Willie" show many similarities