How to Be a Sailor

How to be a Sailor
Directed by	Jack Kinney
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	Carl Barks Jack Kinney Ralph Wright
Starring	Pinto Colvig John McLeish
Music by	Paul Smith
Studio(s)	Walt Disney Productions
Distributor	RKO Radio Pictures
Released	January 28, 1944
Language	English
Preceded by	Victory Vehicles
Followed by	How to Play Golf

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.

Gallery

"Traditional dance of the sea."

"Rowing."

"Look out."

"LOOK OUT!"

v - e - d

1930s Polar Trappers (co-starring Donald Duck) • The Fox Hunt (co-starring Donald Duck) • Goofy and Wilbur 1940s Goofy's Glider • Baggage Buster • The Art of Skiing • The Art of Self Defense • How to Play Baseball • The Olympic Champ • How to Swim • How to Fish • El Gaucho Goofy • Victory Vehicles • How to Be a Sailor • How to Play Golf • How to Play Football • Tiger Trouble • African Diary • Californy 'er Bust • Hockey Homicide • A Knight for a Day • Double Dribble • Foul Hunting • They're Off • The Big Wash • Tennis Racquet • Goofy Gymnastics • Billposters (co-starring Donald Duck) • No Sail (co-starring Donald Duck) • Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive (co-starring Donald Duck) • Crazy with the Heat (co-starring Donald Duck) 1950s How to Ride a Horse • Motor Mania • Hold That Pose • Lion Down • Home Made Home • Cold War • Tomorrow We Diet! • Get Rich Quick • Fathers Are People • No Smoking • Father's Lion • Hello Aloha • Man's Best Friend • Two Gun Goofy • Teachers are People • Two Weeks Vacation • How to Be a Detective • Father's Day Off • For Whom the Bulls Toil • Father's Weekend • How to Dance • How to Sleep 1960s-Present Aquamania • Sport Goofy in Soccermania • How to Hook Up Your Home Theater • Checking in with Goofy • The Art of Vacationing Educational Shorts Freewayphobia • Goofy's Freeway Troubles Songs The World Owes Me a Living • The Goof • The Roots of Goofy See Also Goof Troop • A Goofy Movie • An Extremely Goofy Movie • How to Stay at Home