"Mouse," as it's only the "Mickey" character seen in Walt Disney's 1928 "Steamboat Willie" short that has entered the public ...

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They say the boat left the dock in 1928; however, Screamboat is way more than a (bo--gore abd violent) parody. This is a haunted echo of the most iconic cartoon character in history.

Disney still holds the trademarks on the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse entering into the public domain next year, and trademarks don't expire as long as they are renewed. While ...

Compared to recent riffs on Winnie the Pooh and Popeye, 'Steamboat Willie' slasher has fun skewering the company that's been ...

Barely two days in the public domain, the earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse is on a rampage. Slashed free of Disney’s copyright as of Monday, the iconic character from Steamboat Willie is ...

Billing itself as “the first public domain crossover film,” and ... s original Winnie-the-Pooh and the 1928 Steamboat Willie version of Mickey and create a whole new wicked universe ...

The blessing and curse of the public domain is that you ... behind seeing a character like Steamboat Willie, whom we’ve always associated with Mickey Mouse and Disney, as something evil and ...

Although it’s not exactly groundbreaking cinema, Steven LaMorte’s Screamboat is the first of the “public domain horror flicks” to understand the assignment.

But this time, it’s Mickey Mouse, founder Walt Disney’s own creation – or this first version of him, at least (although The ...

based on 1928’s “Steamboat Willie,” Disney’s first Mickey cartoon. But there are no punishing lawsuits on the way from the famed studio. The animated short entered the public domain last ...