Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," the first cartoon to star Mickey Mouse, is the star of a new horror trailer after becoming public domain Monday. A trailer for a slasher film "Mickey’s Mouse ...

Unsurprisingly, it took less than a day for a Steamboat Willie horror movie to be announced, and the first reveal came from a ...

For example, the “Steamboat Willie” Mickey is shown entirely in black and white and is missing the mouse’s signature white gloves. So, to be extra safe, a filmmaker might avoid a gloved ...

The copyright has finally expired on the 1928 Steamboat Willie version of the character only, which is specifically black-and-white, non-verbal, and has no pupils, among other characteristics.

The 1928 Steamboat Willie black and white animated short film entered the public domain in January 2024, allowing anyone to use the character for various works. The horror genre has seized this ...

“Screamboat” isn’t the first slasher movie to spoof “Steamboat Willie,” the 1928 animated short that introduced a primitive black-and-white version of Mickey Mouse, but it’s a lot more ...

Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in the 1928 animated short “Steamboat Willie.” That early iteration of the iconic Walt Disney character officially entered the public domain on January 1 ...

The version of the iconic character from “Steamboat Willie” will enter the public domain in 2024. But those trying to take advantage could end up in a legal mousetrap.

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The only copyright that is expiring is to the original, eight-minute-long Steamboat Willie short. 1928 Mickey (seen above) didn’t speak, had solid black eyes with no pupils, and had long, skinny ...

Steamboat Willie is a mouse, and so the character is mouse-sized, which adds to the absurdity — both intended and otherwise. The first-look photo juxtaposes Willie with a human-sized bench.