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Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. [2] It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Animation Studios and was released by Pat Powers, under the name of Celebrity Productions. [3]
Black and White has been credited with helping to change the perceptions of what a picture book could be. [5] [12] This book was quickly seen as an important way of connecting with kids during a digital age. [10] [12] Black and White has been labeled a transition text from traditional to digital picture books. [23]
Beany and Cecil was created by animator Bob Clampett [3] after he quit Warner Bros., where he had been directing short cartoon movies.Clampett is said to have originated the idea for Cecil when he was a boy after seeing the top half of the dinosaur swimming from the water at the end of the 1925 movie The Lost World.
The first cartoon in the series was released in 1933, and Popeye cartoons remained a staple of Paramount's release schedule for nearly 25 years. [21] Billy Costello was the original voice of Popeye, a voice that was replicated by later performers, such as Jack Mercer and even Mae Questel .
A parody of Superman, who had previously been featured in a Paramount cartoon series of his own; a brief snippet of the theme from the series is heard while Olive Oyl reads a Superman comic book. Jackson Beck , who voices Bluto in this cartoon, was the announcer for The Adventures of Superman radio program at the time this cartoon was made.
This is a list of animated short films.The list is organized by decade and year, and then alphabetically. The list includes theatrical, television, and direct-to-video films with less than 40 minutes runtime.
Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, which was an enormous success; Plane Crazy was officially released as a sound cartoon on March 17, 1929. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the fourth Mickey film to be given a wide release after Steamboat Willie , The Gallopin' Gaucho and The Barn Dance (1929).
The Box of Delights: or When the Wolves Were Running, published in 1935, was the sequel to his 1927 book The Midnight Folk. [14] Masefield's novel had been adapted by the BBC for radio several times; a six-part adaptation, with a script by Robert Holland and John Keir Cross, was produced three times as part of its Children's Hour with different ...