Goofy sails the high seas.
Okay we’re back to our regular how to cartoon style. We have the history of the subject, the different
aspects of sailing like knots and semaphore, and Goofy demonstrating it all
with varying degrees of failure. This
short allows for some great animation.
I love the water dripping off the Earth in the opening and the shot of
the flat Earth. I love all the great
walk cycles used here and the creative title card.
To me this is a prime example of the how to formula at its best. The narrator is great, Goofy gets a lot of fun things to do, and the audience gets to potentially learn something.
The only downside, and it’s not even a true downside it just
dates the short, is the ending. Obviously
its release came during World War II and so at the end Goofy is shown taking
down several Japanese submarines that are racial insensitive in their design having
the thick glasses and large teeth. I don’t
think really young kids will get the reference, I know tons of things in the
war shorts flew over my head as a kid, but I do like that this has been released
in the Disney on the Front Lines box set so we can throw Leonard Maltin in front
to give this short proper context.
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