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
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