Sound in “Steamboat” Willie” is used to emphasize the exaggeratedness of its animation style and the context/assets of certain scenes. For example, in the scene where Mickey is in the room of pots/pans and some animals, sound designers take advantage of the scene’s context as Mickey treats the animals like musical instruments through sound association and syncing up the sound effects of the animals with the actual synchronized music. Another thing to note is that throughout the film, every character you see only makes noise/sounds but no dialog. However, at the very end of the short, we get to hear Mickey laugh for the first time, a laugh that we the viewers think as human, a human connection, and it is this laugh that would shape the character’s appeal for the next Mickey Mouse short, 1929’s “The Karnival Kid”, where Mickey’s audio now has spoken words for the first time.
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