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A whistling rodent & the American Dream

First Mickey Mouse film test-screened (May 15, 1928)
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There is something strange about watching Steamboat Willie today. The world it came from is gone — riverboats and vaudeville, whistling sailors and silent screens. And yet, that seven-minute cartoon, jittery and absurd and impossibly alive, pulls you in. Still makes you grin.

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