Steamboat Willie
| Movie | |
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| German title | A Ship Rides the Waves (1930) Steamboat Willie (since 1990) |
| Original title | Steamboat Willie |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1928 |
| length | 7:45 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ub Iwerks , Walt Disney |
| script | Walt Disney , Ub Iwerks |
| production | Walt Disney , Roy O. Disney |
| music | Wilfred Jackson , Bert Lewis |
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Steamboat Willie is the first publicly performed cartoon with the cartoon character Mickey Mouse .
After Walt Disney had previously produced two silent films with Mickey Mouse, he first used the possibilities of the sound film at Steamboat Willie . The film premiered on November 18, 1928. The two silent films were dubbed and then published.
Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks directed and scripted the music, and Wilfred Jackson (and not, as is often assumed, Carl Stalling ) wrote the music, and consists of popular folk songs such as Steamboat Bill (who was also the inspiration for the title) and Turkey in the Straw .
action
Micky works under the captain Karlo on the steamer "Willie". He stands whistling happily on the bridge and steers the ship until Karlo angrily chases him away and takes over the helm himself. When Micky sticks out his tongue outraged, Karlo tries to kick the mouse down the stairs, but only kicks himself. Micky, on the other hand, can evade, but falls down the stairs and lands in a full cleaning bucket. Carlo's parrot laughs at him for it. A little later they pick up a cow and various farm animals as cargo at a dock. Shortly after they cast off again, Minnie appears on the bank, but can no longer reach the boat. She runs along the bank and Micky manages to hoist her onto the boat with the help of a crane. Minnie loses both the sheet music for the song Turkey in the Straw and a small guitar . Both are eaten by a goat, with Micky still trying to save the guitar. Minnie then turns the goat's tail, which immediately "plays" the desired song like a phonograph . Micky drums on various kitchen utensils and uses the animals as “instruments”: Among other things, he uses the cow's teeth to play the xylophone on it, a goose is simply misused as a horn. Disturbed by this "noise", Karlo chases the two mice and orders Micky to peel potatoes. His parrot also makes fun of it and is unceremoniously thrown by Micky with a potato, whereupon Micky himself laughs at the end.
Sound in the cartoon
Steamboat Willie is often wrongly called the first cartoon with sound. Cartoons with sound were produced and published as early as 1924, including Max Fleischer's My Old Kentucky Home (1926) and Paul Terry's Dinner Time (1928). Steamboat Willie was the first of these films to reach a larger audience. To synchronize the artificially created sound recording with the images of a cartoon, Disney's studio developed a special production process that gave the company a technical lead for several years.
Performance in Germany
After Disney's earlier Oswald and Alice cartoons had been shown in Germany as early as 1927 , the Mickey Mouse films were also shown in German cinemas from 1930 . Steamboat Willie passed through the Berlin film test center on February 11, 1930 under the name A ship sweeps through the waves .
It wasn't until 1999 that the cartoon was published in Germany on the video Micky's greatest hits , this time under its original title. The film was released on DVD in 2009 in the series Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey Mouse in Black and White - Volume 1: 1928–1935.
On January 17, 2014, it was the first cartoon that was shown on the new television station Disney Channel (Germany) .
Copyright controversy
The copyright to the film was already close to expiring several times (1953, 1984, 2003), so that the work would then have been in the public domain . Each time the Walt Disney Group succeeded in obtaining an extension with the help of the US Congress , so that the copyright is currently valid up to and including 2023. This not only brought accusations of lobbying into the company , but also triggered some investigations into whether the original copyright extension was legally correct at all. Two investigations from 1999 and 2003 came to the conclusion that the film had long been in the public domain, which is denied by the Walt Disney Group.
Trivia
The plot was taken up over and over again over time. In one volume of the Lustiges Taschenbuch series (No. 267), a story is published as an obituary for the film. The film was also parodied by Itchy & Scratchy in the television series The Simpsons .
The song "Turkey in the Straw" "played" by the goat was heard again in 1935 in "Mickey Mouse and Friends: Band Concert", this time Donald Duck played it on his flute.
In Stephen King's book " The Green Mile ", the mouse from Block E is initially called "Steamboat Willie" and is later called "Mr. Jingles" by Eduard Delacroix.
In the episode As a top one is (How To Be A Waiter) from the series Mickey Mouse Works was Steamboat Willie also addressed. In search of the right film, Goofy tries his hand at the silent film Steamboat Goofy . In the opening scene Micky and Minnie were replaced by Goofy and Klarabella. Apart from the fact that Goofy, not Mickey Mouse, controls the steamship and whistles, the film starts as usual. But then "Steamboat Goofy" collides with "Steamboat Willie". After Mickey Mouse complained, Goofy's ship sank.
An excerpt from Steamboat Willie is shown as an animated logo in the opening credits of productions by Walt Disney Animation Studios .
In 1998 Steamboat Willie was inducted into the National Film Registry .
Lego released the ship as a set in February 2019 .
Web links
- Steamboat Willie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Whose mouse is it anyway? Los Angeles Times - Joseph Menn, August 22, 2008, accessed April 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Mickey Mouse - A Truly Public Character. (No longer available online.) Arizona State University College of Law - Lauren Vanpelt, 1999, archived from the original October 2, 2008 ; Retrieved April 23, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Free Mickey Mouse: Copyright Notice, Derivative Works, and the Copyright Act of 1909. University of Virginia School of Law - Douglas A. Hedenkamp, 2003, accessed April 23, 2017 .
- ^ "Steamboat Willie" and "The Central Perk Coffee of Friends" become official LEGO Ideas sets. Retrieved February 20, 2019 .
