sound in animation

Sound animation has now been around several years but there was a time where cartoons were presented as silent films up until the late 1920's. This was when a short film called "Steamboat Willie" was released November 18th 1928, this revolutionised animation and the first step into the future of animation for many years to come. It was directed and written by Walt disney who aimed on creating his own studio which happened and was called "Walt Disney Animation studios".  The first animated film with sound in colour was Snow white and the seven dwarfs (1937) which became one of the highest grossing films of all time, which led to an abundance of sound animated films being released by Walt disney. This then led to another competitor in this which was Warner bros who released "The Looney Tunes" in 1930, only two years after steamboat willie. It was inspired by the animation by disney which shows how influential Walt Disney was in the animation genre which now is one most pofitable genre of all time.