1928 · animation · short · comedy
Steamboat Willie
Directed by Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks8m1928
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie Mouse, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
Our read: Steamboat Willie (1928) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive animation · short · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle animation / short, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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