Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, 1928)
Mickey is serving aboard Steamboat Willie under Captain Peg-Leg Pete (a longtime Disney villain). He is first seen piloting the steamboat while whistling, suggesting he himself is the captain. Pete then arrives to take the helm and throws him off the bridge. They soon have to stop for cargo. Almost as soon as they set off again, the as-of-then unnamed Minnie arrives, too late to board. Mickey manages to pick her up from the river shore. Minnie accidentally drops her sheet music for the popular folk song “Turkey in the Straw,” which is eaten by a goat. Mickey and Minnie use its tail to turn it into a phonograph, which plays the tune. Mickey uses various other animals as musical instruments, disturbing Captain Pete, who puts him back to work. Mickey is reduced to peeling potatoes for the rest of the trip. A parrot attempts to make fun of him, but Mickey strikes him with a potato, knocking him into the river. The short ends with Mickey laughing at the bird struggling in the water. Steamboat Willie (1928) is an animated cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse released on November 18, 1928. It was the third Mickey Mouse cartoon—after Plane Crazy (May 1928) and The Gallopin’ Gaucho (August 1928)—to be made and the first with sound. Disney used Pat Powers’ Cinephone system, created by Powers using Lee De Forest’s Phonofilm system without giving De Forest any credit. Steamboat Willie premiered at New York’s 79th Street Theatre,[1] and played ahead of the independent film Gang War …
i love the way pete doesnt seem to notice that there is another mouse on board his boat (minnie) lol i love these old cartoons and the way nothing needs an explanation (like pete pulling the tobacco thing from no-where) whereas today everything would need an explanation which would over-complicate it
Does he DROWN the bird when he throws that potato at him?
He looks like Ichiro lol
now if only modern cartoons were like this
what the heck is going on in this cartoon?
@ehhthissucks hey woah woah woah i love tis cartoon but i love sponge bob don’t drag him into this besides have you seen earlier spongebob episodes they are amazing go back and watch them
Mikey’s an asshole towards farm animals.
so abusive mickey
Hehe, this is some mean Mickey!
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0:29 Heheh, I remember seeing that part on the intro to some DVDs.
6:05
that is just cruel lol
Who woulda thought that cartoons from the 1920′s would be so violent..
Wow, it’s uncanny how many parallels the first Mickey Mouse cartoon has to the Oswald cartoons that came before it, you can tell Walt was still pining for his creation.
These are the real cartoons that are obliged to look, not like that shits that kids today watch U.U
Who could have known that Mickey is so abusive when he was so young xD
wow never dawned on me that pete was a cat always thot he was a dog
@AkeshaStratton well these cartoons were for adults, not for children, even though its a cartoon.
the first Disney film ends with Mickey Mouse killing a bird and then laughing.
@shiokarashi yea, pretty much
thanks to walt disney some craeted the disney mickey donald and the others sorry for my bad english for my english bok is gone
@ehhthissucks well, if you watch enough spongebob cartoons, it’s actually the closest modern cartoon to these cartoons. But yea, these old ones are gold classics and should be preserved for years to come.
love that little jingle at 0:28
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Animal cruelty much? lol this classics are awesome, much better than nowadays cartoons like spongebob, no offence spongebob lovers, I went to Disneyland few days ago and I watched Fantasmic, at the end you can see the old classic MIckey driving the boat where all Disney characters are.