The Art of Skiing
The Art of Skiing
NR | 14 November 1941 (USA)
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Goofy, staying at the Sugar Bowl resort, demonstrates the basics of downhill skiing, which the titles and announcer insist is pronounced "SHEEing". The equipment is, of course, of the era. As you can imagine, Goofy has much trouble keeping his skis parallel and pointing downhill. The final ski jump conveniently lands Goofy right back in bed.

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Karry

Best movie of this year hands down!

ShangLuda

Admirable film.

Chirphymium

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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FirstWitch

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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morrison-dylan-fan

After being caught by surprise by Disney's wonderful Fantasy Goofy short film Baggage Buster,I decided to take a look at Goofy's first ever (official) "Art of" title.The plot:With having put his skiing boots on the previous night,Goofy jumps out of the bed and heads to the mountains for a long day of skiing.Originally expecting to have an action packed day of skiing round the slopes,Goofy quickly finds out that skiing is harder than he had originally expected.View on the film:Whilst the animation is sadly much less detailed than Goofy's previous titles,director Jack Kinney gives the movie a delightful slap-stick feel,by having Goofy crash and bump into everything from the mountains themselves,to even the bed in his own cabin lodge.Written as a way to cover for voice actor George Johnson working away on live action TV/films,the screenplay by Leo Thiele and Ralph Wright shows little sign of being a scrambled up effort,with Thiele and Wright instead giving narrator John McLeish a thick slice of irony,which helps to make Goofy's "lost" voice,something that can be cheerfully overlooked from the mountain side.

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tavm

Just watched this very funny Disney Goofy cartoon short on YouTube. In this one-as the narrator instructs on the fine art of dressing and then going skiing (which he insists is pronounced SHEE-ING)-the Goof does the opposite in every hilarious way one could think of and more. Director Jack Kinney and his animators milk every bit of humor and slapstick comedy out of this premise and provide a new bit for the humanized dog-his yodel. That yodel was not thought of by the character's original voice-Pinto Colvig who was at Fleischer in Miami at the time-but by his temporary replacement, George Johnson (other yodels were recorded by Hannes Schrolle). That particular bit proved so popular that it became a recurring thing in subsequent Goofy cartoons. So on that note, I highly recommend The Art of Skiiing.

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Mightyzebra

... Until today I had never completely watched this short. For most of my childhood I have enjoyed half of this quite a lot on a different video. It skipped the beginning bit. When I discovered the beginning bit on Youtube I was really surprised that I had missed some.ANYWAY, this is a very entertaining and amusing short. It has little plot (which may bother some people), instead it has a narrator instructing Goofy how to ski. Despite providing pretty clear instructions, Goofy fails rather miserably. The results of this exceedingly unintelligent dog will provide laughs for a good many people - especially if you like Goofy already. This is also a very good short to watch this coming Christmas, so if you can find it on Youtube as well, you are bound to have a good time with this one!Enjoy "The Art Of Skiing"! :-)

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rbverhoef

'The Art of Skiing' is another example of Goofy's instructing videos and it does not belong to one of my favorites. Although it is not boring to watch you will not really laugh out loud. The cartoon starts in the morning with Goofy in bed, we see how Goofy put on his clothes and from there we see the kind of skiing Goofy. Of course the voice over says one thing and Goofy shows something completely different.The problem is, I think, that every single gag is very predictable. You can even guess the kind of animation that will come next and that is not something I really want to see with a cartoon. But still, like I said it was not boring so my time wasn't wasted.

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