Steamboat Willie

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Steamboat Willie (1928)
Walter Elias Disney and Ub Iwerks
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Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, considered the debut of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse, although both characters appeared several months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy. The film notably entered the public domain in the United States in January 1, 2024, along with all other works from 1928. The film is particularly famous in the subject of US copyright law, for being the apparent reason behind the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, often referred to as the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" of 1998, which extended most major US copyright properties to 95 years after publication.

Key (info)
Dialogue
In scene
Storyline
Cast and Crew
Cast
RoleActor
Mickey MouseWalt Disney
Crew
Production companyThe Walt Disney Company
DistributorCelebrity Productions, Disney+
DirectorWalt Disney (d. 1966), Ub Iwerks (d. 1971)
ProducerRoy O. Disney (d. 1971), Walt Disney
ScreenwriterWalt Disney, Ub Iwerks
ComposerCarl W. Stalling (d. 1972), Wilfred Jackson (d. 1988), Carl Edouarde (d. 1932)
AnimatorJohnny Cannon (d. 1946), Les Clark (d. 1979), Ub Iwerks, Wilfred Jackson
Storyboard artistUb Iwerks
Based on available information, the latest crew member that is relevant to international copyright laws died in 1988, meaning that this film may be in the public domain in countries and jurisdictions with 35 years p.m.a. or less, as well as in the United States.
The following is a transcription of a film. The contents below represent text or spoken dialogue that are transcribed directly from the video of the film provided above. On certain screen sizes, each line is represented by a timestamp next to it which shows when the text appears on the video. For more information, see Help:Film.
4388220Steamboat Willie1928Walter Elias Disney and Ub Iwerks

Disney Cartoons
present
A
Mickey Mouse
Sound Cartoon

Steamboat
Willie

A Walt Disney Comic
by Ub Iwerks
Recorded by Powers Cinephone System
Copyright MCMXXIX

Pete
Get down there!

Parrot
I hope you don't feel hurt, big boy! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha— Help! Help! Man overboard!

Pete
Hahahahaha!

Boat
Tickets

Podunk
Landing

FOB

C.L.O.D.

Hay

Kitchen

Cat
Meow! Meow! Meowwwwwowwwww... [etc.]

Potato
Bin

Parrot
Hope you don't feel hurt, big boy! Hahahahahahahaha! Hahahahahaha! Help! Man overboard! Help!

Mickey
Hahahahahahahaha!

Mickey Mouse
Sound Cartoon

The
End

A Walt Disney Comic


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

Copyright law abroad tends to consider the following people authors of a film:

  • The principal director
  • The screenwriter, and/or other writers of dialogue
  • The composer/lyricist (if the film is accompanied by sound)
  • The cinematographer
  • By extension, the authors of any works that may serve as the basis for a film's plot

The longest-living of these authors died in 1988, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 35 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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