Steamboat Willie is a play on its name. "Mickey Mouse made an appearance in a film for the first time that very much relied on another copyrighted work that helped propel its popularity," McLeod ...
The 1928 short, "Steamboat Willie," is often cited as the debut of Mickey Mouse, though he did show up in an early short called "Plane Crazy" the same year, in which tried to imitate Charles ...
Regarding his casting, LaMorte added: “Watching David Howard Thornton bring Steamboat Willie to life with the ... the next victims of this malicious mouse?