"Okay, okay,
I know that this really isn't a movie,
it's a short. And an animated one, ta boot.
But it's still a significant step in the evolution of moving pictures.
And it provides me an entry into this year of the list (at least until I find another movie from 1928 that I will enjoy enough to fill this spot).
Plus, it is Micky Mouse's first appearance & the beginnings of what would eventually lead to the world dominating power of entertainment that is the all-powerful Disney.
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"Mickey Mouse
He's more so an icon than he is a character. I think he lacks the personality that most of the other characters here have, but you just gotta love him. He IS Disney.
"
"Okay, okay,
I know that this really isn't a movie,
it's a short. And an animated one, ta boot.
But it's still a significant step in the evolution of moving pictures. And it helps to keep this list at an even number of ten.
Plus, it is Micky Mouse's first appearance & the beginnings of what would eventually lead to the world dominating power of entertainment that is the all-powerful Disney.
"
- WreckMe - added this to a list 11 months, 3 weeks ago
"Watched: 17.1 - PC - Rewatch
Mikki on sadisti ja eläinrääkkääjä, joka tykkää pistää pomolle vastaan, sekä unelmoida kipparin urasta. Mikki on myöskin ilmeisen laiska työmies. Yksi hyvä puoli Höyrylaiva Villen Mikissä toki on; Hiirulainen ei ole vielä löytänyt omaa harvinaisen rasittavaa persoonaansa, joka on vahvasti esille kaikissa myöhemmissä lyhäreissä sekä kokoillan piirretyissä."
"8.1.11.
PC
Legendaarinen ensimmäinen Mikki-piirretty onkin yllättävästi vähän tylsempi tapaus. Höyrylaiva Villen kapteeni Musta Pekka ärhentelee perämies Mikille ja Mikki poimii matkalle mukaansa myös Minnin. Elokuva kulminoituu kohtaukseen, jossa sadistisesti virnuileva Mikki soittaa muun muassa ankkaa ja kissaa vetämällä niitä hännästä ja kurkusta. Vitun kikkanokka. Joka tapauksessa ihan hauska tapaus (Iwerksin tunnistettavia joka suuntaan taipuvia muovailuvahamaisia hahmoja"
VierasTalo added this to a list 1 year, 3 months ago
"13, 14 & 15. Steamwhistles, Dinosaurs, and Peas
Choo-choo trains and steamboats and factories had whistles which were blown by steam when Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout and I were boys— when our fathers were boys, when our grandfathers were boys. The whistles looked like this:
Steam from water boiled by burning coal was sent raging through the whistles, which made harshly beautiful laments, as though they were the voice boxes of mating or dying dinosaurs—cries such as woooooooo-uh, "
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Note:
Steamboat Willie is an animated short released on November 18, 1928. It was the third Mickey Mouse cartoon to be produced and the first to be released."