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Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse made its debut with the test screen premiere of the cartoon Plane Crazy to a theater audience and potential distributors as a silent film and it 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 ended up being the fourth Mickey film to be given a wide release after Steamboat Willie, The Gallopin' Gaucho and The Barn Dance (1929).