Timing 8:29

Synopsis

Goofy gets the boating bug, but doesn't expect to be in a water skiing race with an octopus.

Characters

Goofy

Goofy, Junior

Octopus (unnamed)

Credits

Director : Wolfgang Reitherman

Asst. Director : Dan Alguire

Animation

John Lounsberry

John Sibley

Art Stevens

Dick Lucas

Effects Animation : Dan Macmanus

Story

Vance Gerry

Ralph Wright

Layout

Basil Davidovich

Dale Barnhardt

Background : Ralph Hunter

Music : Buddy Baker

Awards

Nominated for an Academy Award (Short Subjects - Cartoons)

Videos

United States

Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 8 : Sport Goofy's Vacation

Cartoon Classics : Second Series : Special Edition : The Goofy World of Sports

Germany

Goofy's Lustige Sportschau (71 minute version)

France

Donald et Dingo allias Goofy Champions Olympiques

Italy

Pippo Olimpionico

Laserdiscs

United States

The Goofy World of Sports / Happy Summer Days / Fun on the Job

DVD

Disney Treasures : The Complete Goofy

Disney's Funny Factory with Goofy

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #47 : The Goofy Clan

Mickey's Mouse Tracks : Episode #14

Donald's Quack Attack : Episode #26

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Techicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematograhic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Production Number : 6101

Released by Buena Vista Pictures

Comments

From Jane Kepros : As a child in the late 1980s, my aunt video taped several episodes of Wonderful World of Disney for me and my siblings. The episodes she sent us were all of animated shorts. Most of them were special holiday episodes with themes, i.e. love themes for Valentine's day or the mothering clips for Mother's Day. This was one of my favorite shorts to watch. I also loved the litterbug one. At some point over the years we lost the tape, and now I am looking to get back copies of some of those old shorts I loved.

From Ryan : Goofy hasn't seem to have starred in any cartoons since 1953 before this cartoon. While I really don't find this cartoon all that great, it is still watchable. While watching this cartoon, viewers may notice that the foreground objects, drawn on cels, do not seem as nicely done as they were in the past. By this time, a new process for transferring drawings to cels had been developed. It was called Xeroxing ( which began at the Disney studio with the feature film "101 Dalmatians"). I feel that this makes the drawings look so poorly animated, but seeing as the major animation studios' budgets were beginning to shrink, they had to come up with cheaper methods. This cartoon would be Goofy's last "normal" cartoon as he would later star in educational shorts.

From Steve Segal : I believe this is the first cartoon to use the Xerox process developed by Ub Iwerks.

From Baruch Weiss : In this short Goofy goes "Aquamania" and takes his son boating. I enjoyed the scene where he has a run in with an octopus.

From Trae Robinson : Goofy has to be my favorite Disney character. I wonder why in this cartoon Goofy went by the name of "Mr. X." This is the last cartoon to feature Goofy Junior. In "Goof Troop," Goofy won't have a wife and his son, Max will look like him a little.

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