![]() How much this has to do with the very little of it we ever see on television I only can guess.ĭerann's 200 footer of this is a nice little film. (That's one BIG mouse!)You know and I know that it's "only a cartoon", but I have a feeling that if it was released in our time there would be picketing outside the theaters. Examples include Mickey Mouse swinging a cat around by his tail and making music with a goose by grabbing his body and pulling his neck. The interesting thing about the cartoon is by modern standards, it is actually cruel to animals. There is no dialog as such: nothing more complex than "OOOOoooh!: or "Ayyy!!!" is ever said, but even this seems to work. The synchronised sound and music gave them fits when they were making the film, but its great success basically put Disney on the map. Then again, Walt Disney and Ubb Iwerks had quite a few animated films under their belts by this time, and their technique had matured quite a bit. ![]() The animation style is actually more advanced than I'd expected it to be. Fortunately it is readily available in Super-8, so maybe our audiences can actually see it and see what the whole thing is actually like. This is simply because so few people ever see much more of it than a couple of seconds of Mickey pulling the whistle cord up in the wheel house. Steamboat Willie is almost more of the answer to a trivia question (Name the first successful animated cartoon with sync sound.) than a real, remembered film. It shares the spotlight with other films like "The Great Train Robbery", "The Jazz Singer", "The Robe" and "Toy Story": all firsts of particular kinds. ![]() This simple, primitive little cartoon is a milestone in the history of motion pictures. Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 04, 2007, 09:28 PM: This is topic Steamboat Willie in forum 8mm Print Reviews at 8mm Forum. ![]()
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