Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy

Synopsis

This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.

Cast

John McLeish

Narrator (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Pinto Colvig

Goofy (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Kevin Corcoran

Goofy Jr. (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Alan Reed

Narrator / Mechanic / Hitchhiker (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Billy Bletcher

Al Muldoon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Harry Owens

Orchestra Leader (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

John Dehner

Narrator (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

June Foray

Dame / Mrs. Geef (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Bobby Driscoll

Goofy Jr. (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)

Bob Jackman

George Geef (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)