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Mickey Mouse is piloting a side-wheeler paddle steamer, cheerfully whistling "Steamboat Bill" and sounding the boat's three whistles. Soon, the captain, Pete, appears and orders Mickey off of the bridge.
The riverboat, explicitly called Steamboat Willie, is the subject of a comic story titled "Mickey Mouse and the River of Time" (originally published in Topolino #2243 in Italy), in which the sunken ruins of the ship turn up in a river and Mickey and Pete work to salvage the craft.
1 sty 2023 · Directed by Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks. Released on November 18, 1928. Though Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon in Mickey's lineup to be released, two cartoons Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho were produced before but released after this cartoon. The title is a parody of the Buster Keaton film, Steamboat Bill, Jr., also released in 1928.
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Steamboat Willie is a Mickey Mouse cartoon that premiered on November 18, 1928, at the Colony Theater in New York, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Ub Iwerks.
The Steamboat Willie Riverboat is the riverboat from Mickey Mouse's debut cartoon captained by Pete, who had Mickey working as his cabin boy.
