What is Steamboat Willie?
{{multiple issues|{{more sources|date=October 2024}}{{tone|date=October 2024}}}} {{infobox film | image = Steamboat Willie 1928 Poster.png | alt = | caption = Theatrical release poster<ref name=Gerstein>{{cite book | last=Gerstein | first=David | title=Learn to Draw Mickey Mouse & Friends Through the Decades | url=https://archive.org/details/learntodrawmicke0000disn | publisher=Walter Foster Jr. | date=2015 | page=14 | isbn=978-1-60058-429-9}}</ref> | director = {{ubl|[[Walt Disney]]|[[Ub Iwerks]]}} | story = {{ubl|Walt Disney|Ub Iwerks}} | producer = {{ubl|Walt Disney|[[Roy O. Disney]] (co.)}} | starring = Walt Disney | music = {{ubl|[[Wilfred Jackson]]|Bert Lewis}} | animator = {{ubl|Ub Iwerks|Wilfred Jackson|Johnny Cannon|[[Les Clark]] ([[Inbetweening|inbetweener]])}} | color_process = [[Black and white]] | studio = [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Studio]] | distributor = Pat Powers (Celebrity Productions/Cinephone sound) | released = {{Film date|1928|11|18}} (United States) | runtime = {{duration|m=7|s=47}} | country = United States | language = English | budget = $4,986.69 }} [[File:Steamboat_Willie_(1928)_by_Walt_Disney.webm|thumb|''Steamboat Willie'']] '''''Steamboat Willie''''' is a [[short film]] that [[Walt Disney]] made in 1928. It was about [[Mickey Mouse]], and is the one that would make Mickey Mouse popular. On January 1, 2024, ''Steamboat Willie'' entered the [[public domain]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Steamboat Willie is finally in the public domain. Here's what that means.|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/01/01/mickey-mouse-public-domain-steamboat-willie/|access-date=March 9, 2024|publisher=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> == Plot == [[Mickey Mouse]] is cheerfully [[whistling]] on a boat before Captain Pete yells at him for not doing his job of cleaning the boat. While the boat starts leaving, [[Minnie Mouse]] shows up but misses the boat, so Mickey take