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When did Mickey Mouse first speak in a cartoon?
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Mickey Mouse first spoke in the 1929 cartoon The Karnival Kid, where he uttered the words "Hot dogs!"1
While the 1928 film Steamboat Willie is famous for introducing synchronized sound to the Mickey Mouse series, the character did not have dialogue in that production.21