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The following is a list of creative works starring Mickey Mouse announced after Steamboat Willie , Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho , released in 1928, entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2024. In January, multiple films and video games starring the character were announced immediately. [1] [2] This list only includes works that received substantial media attention.
| Name | Type of work | Description | Release date |
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| MSCHF X Famous Mouse | Collectibles | Art collective MSCHF created a line of Public Domain Mickey-collectibles. The items could be pre-ordered from August 2021 and became available in 2024. [3] [4] [5] | August, 2021 (pre-orders) 2024 (Available) |
| Inverse Ninjas VS. The Public Domain | Shooter game | Video game where public domain-characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Alice, Winnie-the-Pooh and the Monkey King have to shoot an endless group of ninjas. [6] In January, Mickey Mouse was introduced through an update. [7] | December 5, 2023 (original release) January 1, 2024 (Mickey Mouse update) |
| The Vanishing of S.S. Willie | Horror short film | Horror short film based on Steamboat Willie and, as so far known, the first film released using its public domain-status. [8] [9] | January 1, 2024 |
| Mousetrapped | Webcomics | A daily webcomic-series created by R. K. Milholland, continuing the narrative of Mickey, after the events of Steamboat Willie. [10] [11] | From January 1, 2024 |
| Steamboat Willie (Brock's Dub) | Redubbed original cartoon | A redubbed version of Steamboat Willie posted on YouTube. The video received some media notoriety for being the first Steamboat Willie-video to receive and survive a copyright-claim from The Walt Disney Company. On January 6, YouTube revoked the copyright-claim from Disney. [12] [13] [14] | January 4, 2024 |
| One Eyed Bastard | Music Video | The fourth single of Green Day's fourteenth studio album, Saviors. The music video features Mickey Mouse wearing his Steamboat Willie outfit as well as an eyepatch. | January 5th, 2024 |
| Rubber Hose Rampage | Shooter game | A Cuphead clone run and gun game based on Steamboat Willie. [15] It has been noted for its poor quality and buggy nature, as well as illegal use of still-copyrighted characters such as Betty Boop [16] and character designs from Silly Symphony films. [17] However, its use of the Mad Doctor is permissible as that short is in the public domain, and the Mad Doctor character originated in the short. | January 25, 2024 |
| The Mouse Trap | Slasher film | Slasher film where a mass murderer in a Mickey Mouse mask hunts down a group of teenagers inside an amusement arcade. [18] | August 6, 2024 |
| Infestation: Origins | Horror game | Horror game starring Mickey Mouse as a possessed mouse. [19] | TBA 2024 |
| Screamboat [20] | Comedy horror film | Comedy horror film where Mickey Mouse turns into a mutated creature that starts a murderous rampage on a ferry. [18] | January 2025 |
| Mouse: P.I. for Hire | Shooter game | First-person boomer shooter game loosely based on character designs from the early Mickey Mouse cartoons. [21] | TBA 2025 |
| The Return of Steamboat Willie | Horror film | An upcoming animated horror film [22] [23] [24] | TBA |
| Savage Dragon #268 | Comic Book | A comic book issue [25] | TBA |
| Mickey vs. Winnie | Horror film | An upcoming crossover horror film where murderous versions of Mickey Mouse and Winnie-the-Pooh come into conflict after both enter the public domain. It is not related to The Mouse Trap or Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey . [26] | TBA |
| Jet Set Steamboat Willie | Platform game | Homebrew game for the ZX Spectrum created by Sloanysoft, based on the game Jet Set Willy. [27] | 2024 |
| Bad Cheese | Horror game | First person psychological horror created by Lukasik.art and published by Feardemic. [28] | 2025 |
Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large shoes, and white gloves. He is often depicted alongside his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, his pet dog Pluto, his friends Donald Duck and Goofy and his nemesis Pete among others.
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an animated cartoon character created in 1927 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal Pictures. He starred in several animated short films released to theaters from 1927 to 1938. Twenty-seven animated Oswald shorts were produced at the Walt Disney Studio. After Universal took control of Oswald's character in 1928, Disney created a new character similar in appearance to Oswald as a replacement: Mickey Mouse, who went on to become one of the most famous cartoon characters in the world.
Plane Crazy is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released by the Walt Disney Studios, is the first finished project to feature appearances of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, and was originally a silent film. It was given a test screening to a theater audience and potential distributors on May 15, 1928. An executive from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer saw the film, but the film failed to pick up a distributor. Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, which was an enormous success; Plane Crazy was officially released as a sound cartoon on March 17, 1929. It was the fourth Mickey film to be given a wide release after Steamboat Willie, The Gallopin' Gaucho and The Barn Dance (1929).
Minnie Mouse is an American cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. As the longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse, she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a red or pink bow, blue polka-dotted dress, white bloomers and yellow low-heeled shoes occasionally with ribbons on them.
The Gallopin' Gaucho is a 1928 American animated short film and the second short film featuring Mickey Mouse to be produced, following Plane Crazy and preceding Steamboat Willie. The Disney studios completed the silent version in August 1928, but did not release it in order to work on Steamboat Willie. The Gallopin' Gaucho was released, with sound, after Steamboat Willie on December 30 of the same year.
"Steamboat Bill" is a 1910 song with music by the vaudeville group The Leighton Brothers and lyrics by Ren Shields. It became one of the first hit recordings in the United States through its 1911 recording by Arthur Collins, mostly known for the music in Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first released Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. Steamboat Bill also appeared in the 1928 Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 Silly Symphony animated short subject with a comedy horror theme. It was produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In the film, four human skeletons dance and make music around a spooky graveyard—a modern film example of medieval European "danse macabre" imagery. It is the first entry in the Silly Symphony series. In 1993, to coincide with the opening of Mickey's Toontown in Disneyland, a shortened cover of the cartoon's music was arranged to be featured in the land's background ambiance. The short's copyright was renewed in 1957, and as a published work from 1929 it will enter the US public domain on January 1, 2025.
The Mad Doctor is a Mickey Mouse cartoon released in 1933. It is known as the first appearance of the title character "The Mad Doctor", or "Dr. XXX". It was the 52nd Mickey Mouse short film, and the second of that year.
The Barn Dance is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on March 15, 1929, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series; it was the first of twelve shorts released during that year. It was directed by Walt Disney with Ub Iwerks as the head animator. The title is written as Barn Dance on the poster, while the full title is used on the title screen.
The Opry House is a 1929 Mickey Mouse short animated film released by Celebrity Pictures, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the fifth Mickey Mouse short to be released, the second of that year. It cast Mickey as the owner of a small theater. Mickey performs a vaudeville show all by himself. Acts include his impersonation of a snake charmer, his dressing in drag and performing a belly dance, his caricature of a Hasidic Jew and, for the finale, a piano performance of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt.
Fiddlesticks is a 1930 Celebrity Pictures theatrical cartoon short directed and animated by Ub Iwerks, in his first cartoon since he departed from Walt Disney's studio. The short features Iwerks' character Flip the Frog. It is the first complete sound cartoon to be photographed in color.
Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by Walt Disney Animation Studios and was released by Pat Powers, under the name of 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 yet unreleased The Gallopin' Gaucho. Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but it was the first to be distributed, because Disney, having seen The Jazz Singer, had committed himself to produce one of the first fully synchronized sound cartoons.
Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne and English illustrator E. H. Shepard. Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story commissioned by London's Evening News for Christmas Eve 1925. The character is inspired by a stuffed toy that Milne had bought for his son Christopher Robin in Harrods department store, and a bear they had viewed at London Zoo.
The Birthday Party is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on January 2, 1931, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the twenty-fifth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the first of that year.
When a work's copyright expires, it enters the public domain. The following is a list of creators whose works enter the public domain in 2024. Since laws vary globally, the copyright status of some works are not uniform.
Under the Copyright Term Extension Act, books published in 1928, films released in 1928, and other works published in 1928, enter the public domain in 2024. Sound recordings that were published in 1923 enter the public domain.
Infestation: Origins is an upcoming survival horror game developed and published by Nightmare Forge Games. The game is known for featuring Mickey Mouse as he appeared in the 1928 animated short film Steamboat Willie. It was announced on January 1, 2024, after the short entered the public domain in the United States, and is scheduled for release in 2024.
The Mouse Trap is a 2024 Canadian comedy horror film directed by Jamie Bailey and written by Simon Phillips. It is a horror reimagining of Walt Disney's 1928 animated short film Steamboat Willie, the first appearance of Mickey Mouse. The film features a hypnotized serial killer masked as the titular character (Phillips) who traps and terrorizes Alex and her friends inside an amusement arcade.
The Vanishing of S.S. Willie is a 2024 short horror film written and directed by Nick Lives. It uses the American public domain status of the short animated film Steamboat Willie, featuring the earliest version of Mickey Mouse.
Screamboat is an upcoming American horror comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Steven LaMorte. It is a horror reimagining of Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks's 1928 animated short film, Steamboat Willie. The film follows a group of New Yorkers who are terrorized by a murderous version of Mickey Mouse; it stars Allison Pittel, Amy Schumacher, Jesse Posey, Jesse Kove, Rumi C. Jean-Louis, Jarlath Conroy and Charles Edwin Powell, with David Howard Thornton portraying Mickey.
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