Correction: I state in the video that the version of Steamboat Willie on Disney+ is the censored version that also appears on the Walt Disney Animation Studios RUclips channel. This is not accurate. Disney+ has the uncensored version. I watched both versions (Disney+ and RUclips) while writing this video, and I'm not sure how I made this mistake, but I did. Thanks to @EdalgmWasTaken for pointing out this mistake.
Mickey had pretty much saved Walt Disney’s life and career..Mickey is a good luck icon, and in my eyes.. a comfort friend to look up to whenever you have a rough day or to make you smile
watching people in the past saying stuff like "Would sound work on a cartoon" makes me think of how hilarious it would be to go back in time to explain how it not only works, but is also obligatory, needing dedicated voice actors who would charge thousands of dollars, even tens of thousands if the correlation between character and actor was huge and popular among the audience, and even more if the voice actor is a celebrity.
Donald got the laughs when being a jerk... so I wonder if that's why they continued using Donald as a jerk? Mikey turned boring fast.. but placing him with Pluto was a perfect fit because he is the type to lend a helping hand, but never believes Pluto when he's the victim lol. Wise move.
7:06 So Charles Muntz in Up was based on these two people? Charles Lindbergh and Charles Mintz? One a initially friendly seeming swindler and the other an explorer/pilot? Interesting.
OH MY, SUCH A CAREFULLY CRAFTED VIDEO 🎉❤ I feel this vid is so underrated, I hope the algorithm do it's thing more sooner than later! Either way thanks for such a detailed recount of events, it's quite sad there hasn't been a proper documentary focus on WHY was steamboat willie such a hit in it's time, I feel most people fail to give the cultural context of it's creation when diving on it, thus losing much out of such an interesting story behind it's creation Also loved how you pretty much did a quick but nice review out of the three first shorts and I laughed at some of the comentary notes you put while playing the shorts Please keep the good work! ❤
I watched other videos about the origin of Mickey before this and I really wanted a more in depth and then I came across this. Thank you I really wanted to know how exactly they made Mickey Mouse and not some idea that came on a train ride. I liked the ending montage to leave an emotional journey of learning the history of Mickey Mouse!
I just watched it on there to confirm, and yeah, you're right. When I watched it on there during my research process, I could swear it was the censored version. I don't know whether they updated it or I just remembered it wrong.
The funny thing about Charles Mintz is he actually caught Hell from Universal for letting Walt go, just to create the sucessful Mickey Mouse, and they basically ordered Mintz to try and get Disney back. Mintz still f'ed it up by telling Walt that Universal would still own the mouse, and Walt's paycheck would still be small. Mintz was soon let go from Universal as it was clear he sucked at negotiating. Granted there were a couple other problems between Mintz and Universal, but losing, and failing to get Disney back was like a "last straw" for them.
This is only partly true. Walt Disney negotiated directly with Universal after his departure, and not with Mintz, although he did run into him in the Universal offices. The reason Mintz was let go was because two of his animators, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, went straight to Universal president Carl Laemmle and asked to be promoted and replace Mintz, but Laemmle just fired everyone and put Walter Lantz in charge of Oswald. Obviously, Mintz's loss of Walt Disney probably played a role in that decision.
Great video! I can tell you did your research by pointing out how a lot of Walt’s stories are exaggerations of reality. One minor thing though, when you open a sentence saying you’re about to quote a person, I don’t think you need to end the sentence with their name, as you’ve already conveyed who you’re quoting from
Walt era Disney is my favorite.. Disney went downhill hard after Walts passing. The last Walt era animated film that i love with all my heart, is Robinhood. It was released after Walts passing, but i believe he had hid hand in the early stages of Robinhood. After Robinhood, all of the rest of the animated films suffered, and they just didn't contain the spark that Walt era Animated films had.. and it wasnt way until Mickeys Christmas Carol came out, that i felt that Walt era spark again. And even the Live action film showed promise again with The Journey of Natty Gann. It was actually close to a Walt era classic film. But im sad to say, that imo, Disney has never felt that good since. And pixar may be owned by Disney.. but its not Walt era style. Although a few are great, like Bugs life, and Cars 1. They dont make me feel that Walt spark.
Robin Hood was overseen by Walt's Nine Old Men, but Walt himself didn't have a hand in it. The last animated film he had any hand in producing was The Jungle Book, and the last one he approved for production was the Aristocats, but he passed before any work on that film had begun. Robin Hood was the first animated Disney film with no direct ties to Walt.
Some backstory. When me and my brother watching this as little kids, we thought the tag was a name tag and we would say that it was a cow (male) named fob (not f.o.b).
Good documentary..except for the editorial comments by the narrator..keep your personal opinions to yourself..this is supposed to be a documentary and should only feature facts ...I don't care about how you feel about behavior 100 years ago.
Correction: I state in the video that the version of Steamboat Willie on Disney+ is the censored version that also appears on the Walt Disney Animation Studios RUclips channel. This is not accurate. Disney+ has the uncensored version. I watched both versions (Disney+ and RUclips) while writing this video, and I'm not sure how I made this mistake, but I did. Thanks to @EdalgmWasTaken for pointing out this mistake.
Mickey had pretty much saved Walt Disney’s life and career..Mickey is a good luck icon, and in my eyes.. a comfort friend to look up to whenever you have a rough day or to make you smile
Agreed.
watching people in the past saying stuff like "Would sound work on a cartoon" makes me think of how hilarious it would be to go back in time to explain how it not only works, but is also obligatory, needing dedicated voice actors who would charge thousands of dollars, even tens of thousands if the correlation between character and actor was huge and popular among the audience, and even more if the voice actor is a celebrity.
I like the commitment to this entire video being in black and white.
Thanks!
Awesome! Didn't know the whole struggle Walt went through those days.
Thanks!
Considering the fact that Plane Crazy was originally silent and the title card says "Sound Cartoon", there is probably a lost original title card
This is accurate. I don't know if the original title card survived or not, though.
@@ExtraordinaryPeoplesSupposedly a copy exists somewhere.
Steamboat is basically the "third time the charm" story.
this video made me fall in love with mickey all over again! thank you for making it!
Thank you for watching!
Interesting topic and well put together. You know your stuff! Thanks for not making it boring
its crazy how Mickey started off as a bit of an asshole and now he's seen as wholesome
Donald got the laughs when being a jerk... so I wonder if that's why they continued using Donald as a jerk?
Mikey turned boring fast.. but placing him with Pluto was a perfect fit because he is the type to lend a helping hand, but never believes Pluto when he's the victim lol. Wise move.
This is extremely well put together! Loved every minute of it. Thank you! Mickey is a legend
Thank you!
7:06 So Charles Muntz in Up was based on these two people? Charles Lindbergh and Charles Mintz? One a initially friendly seeming swindler and the other an explorer/pilot? Interesting.
Yes, I believe so.
Great video! I loved the Oswald video you made now this Mickey one is even better! Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
OH MY, SUCH A CAREFULLY CRAFTED VIDEO 🎉❤
I feel this vid is so underrated, I hope the algorithm do it's thing more sooner than later!
Either way thanks for such a detailed recount of events, it's quite sad there hasn't been a proper documentary focus on WHY was steamboat willie such a hit in it's time, I feel most people fail to give the cultural context of it's creation when diving on it, thus losing much out of such an interesting story behind it's creation
Also loved how you pretty much did a quick but nice review out of the three first shorts and I laughed at some of the comentary notes you put while playing the shorts
Please keep the good work! ❤
Thanks! I really appreciate the kind words.
Hell yeah! I just watched your Oswald video a few days ago and I subscribed. I was glad to see this one pop up.
Thanks!
I watched other videos about the origin of Mickey before this and I really wanted a more in depth and then I came across this. Thank you I really wanted to know how exactly they made Mickey Mouse and not some idea that came on a train ride. I liked the ending montage to leave an emotional journey of learning the history of Mickey Mouse!
Thanks!
You're welcome, and thank you!
This seems like a promising channel!
Thanks!
34:15 Disney+ actually has this short uncensored
I just watched it on there to confirm, and yeah, you're right. When I watched it on there during my research process, I could swear it was the censored version. I don't know whether they updated it or I just remembered it wrong.
i can tell this video has a lot of effort put in, i'm hoping the algorithm boosts you up :)
Thanks!
Another great video! I loved watching this! Great job!
Thanks!
The funny thing about Charles Mintz is he actually caught Hell from Universal for letting Walt go, just to create the sucessful Mickey Mouse, and they basically ordered Mintz to try and get Disney back. Mintz still f'ed it up by telling Walt that Universal would still own the mouse, and Walt's paycheck would still be small.
Mintz was soon let go from Universal as it was clear he sucked at negotiating.
Granted there were a couple other problems between Mintz and Universal, but losing, and failing to get Disney back was like a "last straw" for them.
This is only partly true. Walt Disney negotiated directly with Universal after his departure, and not with Mintz, although he did run into him in the Universal offices. The reason Mintz was let go was because two of his animators, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, went straight to Universal president Carl Laemmle and asked to be promoted and replace Mintz, but Laemmle just fired everyone and put Walter Lantz in charge of Oswald. Obviously, Mintz's loss of Walt Disney probably played a role in that decision.
Great video! I can tell you did your research by pointing out how a lot of Walt’s stories are exaggerations of reality.
One minor thing though, when you open a sentence saying you’re about to quote a person, I don’t think you need to end the sentence with their name, as you’ve already conveyed who you’re quoting from
Thanks! And yeah, you're probably right.
Walt Disney combined Film and Radio and I'm here treating Video like it is Radio
Walt era Disney is my favorite.. Disney went downhill hard after Walts passing.
The last Walt era animated film that i love with all my heart, is Robinhood. It was released after Walts passing, but i believe he had hid hand in the early stages of Robinhood.
After Robinhood, all of the rest of the animated films suffered, and they just didn't contain the spark that Walt era Animated films had.. and it wasnt way until Mickeys Christmas Carol came out, that i felt that Walt era spark again.
And even the Live action film showed promise again with The Journey of Natty Gann. It was actually close to a Walt era classic film.
But im sad to say, that imo, Disney has never felt that good since.
And pixar may be owned by Disney.. but its not Walt era style. Although a few are great, like Bugs life, and Cars 1. They dont make me feel that Walt spark.
Robin Hood was overseen by Walt's Nine Old Men, but Walt himself didn't have a hand in it. The last animated film he had any hand in producing was The Jungle Book, and the last one he approved for production was the Aristocats, but he passed before any work on that film had begun. Robin Hood was the first animated Disney film with no direct ties to Walt.
39:50 What's the song here from?
It's from The Spirit of Mickey, which if you didn't know, is a VHS collection of classic Mickey cartoons.
Apparently FOB actually stands for "Feed on Boat"
I'm going to need a source of that.
@@ExtraordinaryPeoples My source was a RUclips comment, so I think I'm wrong
@@Edalgmsource? i simply made it up.
RAUUUUUUH BALLER VIDEO??????????
Dream, Believe, Dare, Do -Walt Disney
I never knew back then people also didn't like how mickey was portrayed in plane crazy
Why did this teach me more about animation history in America than my history of animation class-
US Education System... err... the CalArts Education System... or SCAD, I don't judge.
I don't go to either of those art schools lmfao-
@@Hopelessdigus oh ok
31:53 He will still always be fob to me.
Some backstory. When me and my brother watching this as little kids, we thought the tag was a name tag and we would say that it was a cow (male) named fob (not f.o.b).
As a kid, I always wondered what "FOB" meant, but I never thought of it as a name.
Mickey is a jerk
Good documentary..except for the editorial comments by the narrator..keep your personal opinions to yourself..this is supposed to be a documentary and should only feature facts ...I don't care about how you feel about behavior 100 years ago.
"This is supposed to be a documentary and should only feature facts"
Interesting. Tell me more about what my video that I made is "supposed" to be.
Also, what "personal opinions" are you even talking about? I don't remember sharing any in this video.
Your comment sounds more like a personal opinion js