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“Steamboat Willie" may be the best-known early Mickey Mouse film, but it wasn’t Mickey’s silver-screen debut.

“Steamboat Willie" may be the best-known early Mickey Mouse film, but it wasn’t Mickey’s silver-screen debut.

“Steamboat Willie" may be the best-known early Mickey Mouse film, but it wasn’t Mickey’s silver-screen debut.

LMPC via Getty ImagesThe earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse has just entered public domain, and there’s already a new trailer for a non-Disney film using the character. Animated shorts Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy entered public domain at the begi...

This co-optable version of rascally Mickey is described by some scholars as "rat-like" and lacking his well-known, polished look and garb.

An early version of Mickey Mouse is for the people now. After entering the public domain, the character from Disney’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ has already inspired a horror game and some NSFW memes.

Steamboat Willie, a 1928 feature film by Disney, entered the public domain on January 1. For the unversed, Steamboat Willie is among the earliest versions of Mickey Mouse.

New Year’s Day now doubles as Public Domain Day, when a fresh trove of vintage artistic creations becomes available each year for anyone to use as copyrights expire. And at least emblematically, the big game this year is the first cinematic iterations of Mickey Mouse.

(1) SOME PEOPLE SHINE. Let Looper introduce you to “Stephen King's Harry Potter: The Fan-Made Concept That's Too Weird To Be Real”. This is quite something. When it comes to accomplished fiction writers, you don't get much more prodigious than Stephen King. So iconic is his work that the YouTube channel Yellow Medusa created an artificial

In it, clips from Walt Disney's 'Steamboat Willie' are shown are used to tell the story of a mouse mask-wearing killer who stalks college-age kids at an arcade.