How to Be a Sailor is a 1944 animated short starring Goofy.
Synopsis[]
A history of sailing through the ages; from a prehistoric Goofy using a log, through the Age of Sail ("iron men, wooden ships") and on to modern times. This short notably ends with a wartime joke of Goofy being used as a torpedo to sink Japanese battleships (all of them being caricatured with Emperor Hirohito's face on them) as well as Japan's "rising sun" as "O Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" plays.
Characters[]
- Goofy (voiced by Pinto Colvig)
- Narrator (voiced by John McLeish)
Releases[]
Television[]
- The Mickey Mouse Club, November 26, 1957
- The Mouse Factory, episode #7: "Water Sports"
- The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.31: "The Unseen Disney"
Home video[]
VHS
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions: The World According to Goofy
DVD
- Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
- Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines
Trivia[]
- This is the only Goofy cartoon made during World War II to see Goofy in active military service, although two unreleased short subjects were to have shown him as a buck private and a commando respectively.
- Not counting archival recordings of Pinto Colvig's previously-recorded Goofy tracks from 1932-1938, this is the first cartoon in the Goofy series where Colvig reprises his role as Goofy since 1938's "The Whalers".
Gallery[]
Title card
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"Traditional dance of the sea."
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"Rowing."
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"Look out."
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"LOOK OUT!"
