Steamboat Willie Redux Public Domain - [4K] 2024 Full Animated Short
8Steamboat Willie Redux - 4K Upscaled - Premiered 2013 & Released To The Public 2018 Full Animated Short Remixed / Comparison / Intro Video - Disney's Steamboat Willie Redux 4K By Joel Turssel | 2023 Remix & Remastered
Steamboat Willie Redux is a modern, graphic reimagining of Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the original synchronized sound cartoon short featuring first public appearance of Mickey Mouse. The short was broken up into 35 scenes which were assigned to various artists or teams of artists from all over the world. We asked each contributor or team to synchronize their animation to the original soundtrack and (for the sake of continuity) to compose their scenes using the original scene layout. Artists were encouraged to be as imaginative and graphically playful. The end result is an exciting, contemporary interpretation of the classic 1928 Mickey Mouse short film.
Steamboat Willie Redux is a new hand-drawn short produced by Disney Consumer Products. It is basically a remake of the original short in various graphic styles by different artists. It originally premiered at the D23 Expo on August 10, 2013, and was shown publicly at the "Mickey: The True Original" Exhibition in New York City, New York.
The animators that took part are mostly comprised of freelance animators who work at Disney Consumer Products, but there are some studios that were asked to work on the project. Some of the animators listed here have moved on to other studios, and some still remain in Disney.
Artists
Joel Trussell
John T. Quinn
Andreas Deja
Matthew Shepherd
Ricardo de los Angeles & Craig McCracken (two scenes were made by him)
Nelson Boles
Richard Mather and Thomas Smolenski
Stacey Aoyama
Dan Bob Thompson
Vitaliy Strokous
The title card was made by Dillon Markey using wires and stop-motion, and the end card is very likely an edit, as the original image is the very same end card as the original short.
The part where Mickey uses the animals as instruments (besides the xylophone as a cow part) had been cut off from the Redux, due to the scenes showing animal abuse.
Steamboat Willie Redux was supposed to be shown at the D23 Expo, but due to production issues it was not released, until 2018, during Mickey: The True Original Exhibition.
Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and UB Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Pat Powers, under the name of Celebrity Productions.[3] The cartoon is considered the debut of both Mickey and Minnie Mouse, although both characters appeared several months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy.[4] Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but it was the first to be distributed, because Disney, having seen The Jazz Singer, had committed himself to produce one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons.
Steamboat Willie is especially notable for being one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound, as well as one of the first cartoons to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack, which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons, such as Inkwell Studios' Song Car-Tunes (1924–1926) and Van Beuren Studios' Dinner Time (1928). Disney believed that synchronized sound was the future of film. Steamboat Willie became the most popular cartoon of its day.
Music for Steamboat Willie was arranged by Wilfred Jackson and Bert Lewis, and it included the songs "Steamboat Bill", a composition popularized by baritone Arthur Collins during the 1910s, and the 19th century popular song "Turkey in the Straw". The title of the film may be a parody of the Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), itself a reference to the song by Collins. Disney performed all of the voices in the film, although there is little intelligible dialogue.
The film has received wide critical acclaim, not only for introducing one of the world's most popular cartoon characters but also for its technical innovation. Animators voted Steamboat Willie as the 13th greatest cartoon of all time in the 1994 book The 50 Greatest Cartoons, and in 1998, the film was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. As a work published in 1928, the cartoon entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024.
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