Synopsis
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
1928 Directed by Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
El Botero Willie, Barco de vapor Willie, Mickey Mouse: El botero Willie
It makes sense that Disney hung their hat on the part of this where Mickey is whistling and driving the steamboat because it’s the only eight seconds of this entire short where he isn’t assaulting somebody.
An anti-Semitic mouse chokes a duck, molests a pig's nipples and kicks a cat up the arse in this hard hitting short film from the people who brought you Saw™ and Hostel™.
It was funny until he started spinning the cat around by its tail. Then it was hilarious.
IMDb: 7.6
93/100
Release Date: 01 January 1929
Distributor: Walt Disney Productions
Budget: $5,000 (estimated)
Total Film Awards: 1
Viewing Platform: YouTube
Parrot: “Help! Help! Man overboard!”
SYNOPSIS: Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.
A landmark achievement in the history of animation by Walt Disney and his collaborator, Ub Iwerks. While it was not the first cartoon to implement synchronized sound, it is undoubtedly the most famous. I loved the innovation that Disney used with the aforementioned synchronized sound by using the different animals portrayed as musical components, particularly the cow and pigs.
TRIVIA: Is actually not the first synchronized sound cartoon. Walt Disney's rival Max Fleischer…
This is actually alot like the average Itchy and Scratchy episode, with the mouse himself being purveyor of all that is evil.
A landmark achievement not only for the Disney company, but for the history of animation.
Man, Mickey does not take no shit from some bird laughing at him!
So if you have ever wondered about what Mickey driving a boat was all about in that Disney Animation Studios intro clip at the start of their movies, it dates back to Mickey's big debut in this 1928 animated short with synchronized sound.
So in this roughly 8-minute film we get introduced to Mikey, Miney, a handful of musical animals, and an early version on Pete I think. I could not help but smile at the creativity with some of the gags like seeing Mickey's midsection expand out like a rubber band…
i always thought this short was just a few seconds of mickey whistling, but nah, it’s a lot longer and smarter and funnier than that.
There will never be a time where I won't be mindblown by how far animation has come. That's not me saying that this looks bad, it actually looks amazing but what we can do now with all the different types of technology and the different styles of art is absolutely incredible.
September 20th 2015
Renowned actor Michael Theodore Mouse yesterday issued a statement in which Mouse affirmed that he did in fact afflict animal cruelty upon several different animals in order to impress his then-girlfriend Minerva Mouse, after video footage from early in the Oscar-winning actor's career allegedly showed the pair assaulting cows, goats, cats, ducks and parrots. From the statement issued yesterday, he wrote, "I am deeply sorry for my immature and disgusting behaviour from when I was a teen trying to impress my girlfriend." More on the story next issue.
Walt Disney understood the appeal of synchronized sound, and exploited it to its full musical potential in this early Mickey short — the first-released appearance of the character and the first synced-sound cartoon. It’s basically just a seven-minute musical number where Mickey abuses other animals to play a song, and it works.
The song was good . Emmm not much to say about it but yeah. - Thanks Sam for sending me the links
Really good for the first Disney cartoon, but I really don’t know why Mickey was abusing all those animals!, Still it’s amazing to see how far animation has come over the years.
Mickey abusing animals and committing sexual assault for 8 minutes? I mean, yeah it is a very important short in history, and it was made in the late 20s... But feck, even acknowledging all that, still pretty hard to watch
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