Steamboat Willie Autographs
Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by Disney Cartoons and was released by Pat Powers' Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the public debut of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, although both appeared months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy and the then unreleased The Gallopin' Gaucho. Steamboat Willie is the third of Mickey's films to have been produced, but it is the first to have been distributed, because Disney had seen The Jazz Singer (1927) and became determined to produce one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons.
Steamboat Willie is one of the first cartoons with synchronized sound, and one of the first cartoons to feature a fully post-produced soundtrack, which distinguished it from earlier sound cartoons, such as Inkwell Studios's Song Car-Tunes (1924–1926), My Old Kentucky Home (1926), and Van Beuren Studios's Dinner Time (1928). Disney believed that synchronized sound was the future of film.
The soundtrack was arranged by Wilfred Jackson and Bert Lewis, and it included the songs "Steamboat Bill", a composition popularized by baritone Arthur Collins during the 1910s, and the popular 19th-century folk song "Turkey in the Straw". The film's title may be a parody of the Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), which is a reference to the song by Collins. Disney performed all of the voices in the film's little intelligible dialogue.
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Current items with a signature of Steamboat Willie
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Traded items with a signature of Steamboat Willie
The most expensive item with a signature of Steamboat Willie (Disney Mickey Steamboat Willie Screen Print Signed by Tom Whalen Sideshow) was sold in April 2025 for $2,000.00 while the cheapest item (Noah Elias Signed Steamboat Willie Lithograph Art Welcome Home) found a new owner for $15.99 in September 2025. The month with the most items sold (6) was March 2026 with an average selling price of $33.90 for an autographed item of Steamboat Willie. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2025 with $2,000.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $15.99 was September 2025. In average, an autographed item from Steamboat Willie is worth $125.20.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Steamboat Willie were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Armani Disneyana 2000 “Steamboat Willie” Armani Signed Mickey Mouse NIB w COA | $349.00 |  |
 | Armani Disneyana 2000 “Steamboat Willie” Armani Signed N.L.E. w/ Convention Pin | $550.00 | |
 | David Howard Thornton Signed 8x10 "Screamboat" Photo Autograph, Steamboat Willie | $66.99 | |
| Disney Fine Art "Steamboat" Willie giclee on canvas, signed by artist, LE 4/395 | $217.05 | |
| Disney Steamboat Willie Signed Sketch Drawing by Oliver Itson Framed 16.5x13.5 | $59.95 | |
 | Mickey Disney Fine Art Matousek Signed Lt Ed 295 Canvas Print Steamboat Willie | $595.00 | |
| Mickey Disney Fine Art Matousek Signed Lt Ed 295 Canvas Print Steamboat Willie | $595.00 | |
| Mickey Disney Fine Art Matousek Signed Lt Ed 295 Canvas Print Steamboat Willie | $595.00 | |
 | Mickey Mouse Limited Edition Artist Signed "Steamboat Willie" Trading Card 1/10 | $23.90 | |
 | Mickey Mouse Limited Edition Artist Signed "Steamboat Willie" Trading Card 1/10 | $23.90 | |
 | Mickey Mouse Platinum Plated Artist Signed "Steamboat Willie" Trading Card 1/1 | $33.90 | |
 | Mickey Mouse Platinum Plated Artist Signed "Steamboat Willie" Trading Card 1/1 | $33.90 | |
| Noah Elias Signed Steamboat Willie Lithograph Art Welcome Home | $15.99 | |
| SIGNED Disney STEAMBOAT WILLIE OPENING NIGHT Olszewski Miniature LE 50/500 2001 | $1,013.00 | |
 | Signed Piece of Disney Movies Steamboat Willie PODM LE 2000 Pin NOS - Option B | $399.99 | |
Latest News about Steamboat Willie
Early Version of Disney’s Mickey Mouse Will Soon Be Public Property (12/27/2022): 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. 
