The Walt Disney Company turns 100 this year, so each month IllusiveKen is looking back at its landmark films to better understand the Mouse House - and the film industry it's helped define. This month: Steamboat Willie
, too, were accompanied by music, but those scores were not yet part of the films. Many of cinema’s oldest stars rejected the “talkie” or found they had no place in an art form where it had become the dominant medium.
. It’s true, though. Disney’s entire empire really began with a seven-minute short, one that played in theaters right before a movie that was called, of all possible titles,and which itself had added a spoken dialogue prologue to an otherwise silent movie. Sound was coming, and Mickey was one of its vanguards.
There’s not much plot: Mickey runs a steamboat under the boorish Pete, and at one point Minnie comes aboard. The draw for audiences in 1928 was the music, including a long, silly rendition of “Turkey in the Straw.” So much of what The Walt Disney Company has cast aside is there in those seven minutes. Mickey is a troublemaker, an incorrigible youngster rather than the peppy and inoffensive mascot he’s since become—today’s Mickey isn’t going to play a tune on a mama pig’s nipples.
The way the smokestacks belch their smoke in time, the way Mickey’s cheeks and lips puff perfectly in sync with his whistling, the way other characters sway and wiggle in time to the music—this is the real beginning of Disney, the company, becoming the last word in animation. They dominated it, even fended off usurpers who,
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