The Art of Skiing

The Art of Skiing is a Goofy cartoon made by Walt Disney Productions in 1941.[2] It has historical significance as the first cartoon to use the now-famous Goofy holler,[3] as well as the short that led to the "How to..." series, beginning with How to Play Baseball (1942) and continuing through How to Hook Up Your Home Theater (2007).

The Art of Skiing
Directed byJack Kinney (uncredited)
Produced byWalt Disney
Story byLeo Thiele (uncredited)
Ralph Wright (uncredited)
StarringJohn McLeish (Narrator)
George Johnson (Goofy)
Thelma Boardman (Minnie Mouse, yodeling)
Gloria Blondell (Daisy Duck, yodeling)
Music byCharles Wolcott (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
November 14, 1941 (US)[1]
Running time
8 min (one reel)
LanguageEnglish

Notes

Goofy goes to Sugar Bowl Ski Resort, to learn how to ski. The name of the resort can be seen in the opening frames of the cartoon. Sugar Bowl Ski Resort was used because Walt Disney had an interest in the Sugar Bowl ski area, to the extent that one of the peaks at Sugar Bowl is named Mt. Disney after him.

The narrator and the opening titles mention an alternate (and "correct") pronunciation of skiing as shee-ing, despite the narrator mostly pronouncing it vice versa throughout the short. Another Goofy cartoon featured Goofy himself mentioning this to an Ancient Greek.

This was the first cartoon to use the signature Goofy holler; it is the only vocal uttered by Goofy in the short.

Voice cast

Releases

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 86–87. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 17. ISBN 9781476672939.
  3. . (January 2009) IMDb.com. Accessed January 5, 2009.


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