What was Steamboat Willie's original poster?
Recently, while browsing, I've come across this product, a poster for Steamboat Willie (1928): (c) 2020 The Walt Disney Company. My knee-jerk reaction is that the art was a clever faux-vintage work by Disney Consumer products. Indeed the image has appeared on other products as well. However, When I think to the poster most commonly associated with Steamboat Willie (see below) I wonder if either are actually authentic? (c) The Walt Disney Company Neither mentions a distributor, which seems unusual. The later poster seems more in line for what we saw for Mickey Mouse's 50th Anniversary retrospective at MOMA and the Lincoln center, where Disney provided recreated title cards stripped of United Artists,Columbia, and Celebrity Pictures names. The second also features the more familiar MICKEY MOUSE logo font in it's finalized form, where the first is much more organic and unrefined. Did Celebrity Pictures ever issue posters for Mickey's early films? I...