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Article: At age 75, Mickey Mouse represents American culture, consumerism
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- AP Worldstream
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- November 18, 2003
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MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-18-2003
Dateline: ORLANDO, Florida
Mickey Mouse arrived on the world's cultural stage 75 years ago Tuesday as a scrawny but buoyant black-and-white product of the Jazz Age.
He was a symbol of American pluck in his screen debut, "Steamboat Willie," on Nov. 18, 1928. The film at New York's Colony Theatre showed an irreverent rodent who takes Captain Pete's steamboat on a joyride and woos Minnie Mouse by making music on the bodies of various farm animals.
The years have dulled Mickey's personality, a result of him becoming the corporate face of a multibillion-dollar entertainment empire. In the process, Mickey also has become a cultural ...