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When Walt got back to the studio,
work began right away on the new
Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Soon afterwards, Warner Brothers
released an important new movie
called The Jazz Singer. It was the
first talking picture that was a
success.
Musician Wilfred Jackson
created a musical score
for a Mickey Mouse
cartoon named Steamboat
Willie.
The film ran at a rate of twenty-four frames per second using a
metronome* to tick off two beats per second. The music was recorded
after the animation was filmed. They were able to make the live action and
music seem like a dance.
*an instrumental device which marks exact time by a ticking sound