"A Goofy Cartoon"

Release Date December 26, 1941

Running Time 7:49

Synopsis

Goofy defends himself through a history of the manly arts through the ages.

Characters

Goofy

Credits

Director : Jack Kinney

Animation

Ralph Wright

Rex Cox

Art Babbitt

Poster available through MovieGoods.com

Videos

United States

Goofy Over Sports

Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 6 : More Sport Goofy

Germany

Goofy's Lustige Olympiade

Goofy's Lustige Sportschau (71 minute version)

France

Donald et Dingo allias Goofy Champions Olympiques

Italy

Pippo Star Delle Olimpiadi

Pippo Olimpionico

Laserdisc

United States

Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 6 : More Sport Goofy

Japan

Goofy's All-Star Olympics

DVD

Region 1 : United States

Disney Treasures : The Complete Goofy

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #35 : More Sports Goofy

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Gallery

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Comments

From Gijs Grob : Focusing primarily on boxing, this cartoon has historical significance: it is the first short in which Goofy is shown to have multiple duplicates, who apparently populated the earth throughout history. Although the 'real' clumsy Goofy clearly appears halfway the film, this cartoon is a major step in Goofy's transition from a unique character into an everyman. Soon, whole sport teams would consist of multiple Goofs, in which the different players would have different names(!). Notice, that Goofy's copies do not necessarily share his good nature or his clumsiness (actually, this cartoon contains quite some aggressive violence, like two Egyptian Goofs poking each other's eyes out). Notice, too, that no other famous character shares this ability of becoming everybody. There are no cartoons with multiple Mickeys or Donalds (nephews and better selfs do not count), nor are there multiple Bugs Bunnies, Daffy Ducks etc.

From Baruch Weiss : I love this short for 2 reasons :

1.It had Goofy in it.

2.In the sequence where Goofy walks into the gym there is a nice music score which was also used during the closing theme. I also noticed Goofy's gorilla yell was similar from "Dumbo"and "Mickeys Garden."

From Dino Cencia : My favorite part is this short is when Goofy was at the fighting arena and he was about to fight a tough guy in the arena and made a gorilla yell from "Mickeys Garden." That was really funny and also funny was Goofy's shadow and Goofy were practice fighting and Goofy's shadow really won. I give this a 842 out of 842.