First is First
First day of 2024, Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon) entered the public domain after 95 years, the Mouse belongs to people for the first time. On Jan.6, OrdiMouse, the first 10K public domain Mickey Mouse collection inscribed on Bitcoin forever.
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@ordinalrugs On January 1, 2024, Steamboat Willie (the first Disney Mickey Mouse cartoon) entered the public domain after 95 years. OrdiMouse, the first 10K public domain Mickey Mouse collection inscribed on Bitcoin, btw OrdiMouse was the collection with last-ever cursed inscription.
@LeonidasNFT You legends! The last curse inscription is from the OrdiMouse collection. Big thanks to the first one who spotted itโyou're a witness to history! ๐ญโจ
"It Was All Started By a Mouse"
2024 opens with a significant cultural landmark, as 1928's Steamboat Willie, one of the most groundbreaking films of the 20th century, which first introduced audiences to the character of Mickey Mouse, today enters the public domain.
Filmed on a budget of $4,986, Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon of Walt Disney Studio to feature a synchronised soundtrack, and represented a milestone in the history of motion picture. The enormous success it enjoyed following its premiere in New York, on the 18th November 1928, would render silent animation obsolete virtually overnight, and seal the fame of both Walt Disney himself and his most iconic character.
In a mark of the film's profound cultural legacy, seventy years after its release in theatres, Steamboat Willie was in 1998 selected by the United States Library of Congress for induction into the National Film Registry, fulfilling the criteria of being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Following repeated legal extensions to copyright terms in the United States - lobbied for so vigorously by The Walt Disney Company that the 1998 act would be dubbed the 'Mickey Mouse Protection Act' - the copyright protection of Steamboat Willie finally expired at the stroke of midnight on the 1st January 2024. As a consequence, should you be curious, the footage is uploaded below in its entirety.
On the successful empire that Steamboat Willie would give rise to, Walt Disney himself, speaking on television on the 27th October 1954, would offer a prescient reflection, and warning for the House of Mouse of the future:
"I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse"
First is First
First day of 2024, Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon) entered the public domain after 95 years, the Mouse belongs to people for the first time. On Jan.6, OrdiMouse, the first 10K public domain Mickey Mouse collection inscribed on Bitcoin forever.
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@rodarmor What I can't forget is that no more cursed inscriptions can be created locking the supply at 472,043 forever. The final cursed inscription ever -472043 is an OrdiMouse!
3rd Day of LONG LIVE CURSED INSCRIPTIONS
๐ญhats off to @domodata
Domo created BRC-20 token standard and $ordi in March 2023. He has made a remarkable contribution to the prosperity of the BTC ecosystem. This piece of tribute was inscribed on the cursed inscription -458962.