Variety called it a peach of a synchronization job all the way; Weekly Film Review noted that the movie kept the audience laughing and chuckling from the moment the lead titles came on the screen, and it left them applauded. From the earliest frames, the film is alive with Cinephonic sound. The steamboat's funnels blow scratchy o's of smoke; its whistles honk and bark; and Mickey whistles too, the popular vaudeville song Steamboat Bill, while he spins a helm that clicks like a winch.

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