Editing Goofy (section)

====The ''How to...'' series====
[[File:Disney drawing goofy.jpg|thumb|right|180px|[[Walt Disney|Disney]] drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941]]
[[Jack Kinney]] would take over the Goofy cartoons with the second short ''[[Goofy's Glider]]'' (1940).<ref name=Barrier/> Kinney's Goofy cartoons would feature zany, fast-paced action and gags similar to those being made at [[Warner Bros. Cartoons|Warner Bros]] and [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio|MGM]], and possibly influenced by [[Tex Avery]].<ref name=Wells/> Kinney found Goofy to be "a nice long, lean character that you could move; you could get poses out of him, crazy poses". A sports fan, he would place Goofy in ''How to...'' themed shorts in which Goofy would demonstrate, poorly, how to perform certain sports.<ref name=Barrier>{{cite web|title=Jack Kinney interview (1973)|website=MichealBarrier.com|accessdate=September 5, 2022|url=http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Kinney1973/Kinney1973.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302101053/http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/Kinney1973/Kinney1973.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-03-02}}</ref>

''How to Ride a Horse'', a segment in the 1941 film ''[[The Reluctant Dragon (1941 film)|The Reluctant Dragon]]'', would establish the tone and style of future shorts like ''[[The Art of Skiing]]'' (1941), ''[[How to Fish]]'' (1942), ''[[How to Swim (1942 film)|How to Swim]]'' (1942) and ''[[How to Play Golf]]'' (1944). Cartoon shorts like ''[[How to Play Baseball]]'' (1942), ''[[How to Play Football]]'' (1944) and ''[[Hockey Homicide]]'' (1945) would feature Goofy not as a single character but multiple characters playing the opposing teams. Animation historian Paul Wells considers ''Hockey Homicide'' to be the "peak" of the sports cartoons. Some of the later sports-theme cartoons, like ''[[Double Dribble (film)|Double Dribble]]'' (1946) and ''They're Off'' (1948) would be directed by [[Jack Hannah]].<ref name=Wells>{{cite book|author=Wells, Paul|year=2014|title=Animation, Sport and Culture|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|pages=78–96|isbn=978-1137027627}}</ref>

Pinto Colvig had a falling out with Disney in 1937 and left the studio, leaving Goofy without a voice.<ref name="Hischak"/> Kinney recalls "so we had to use whatever was in the library; you know, his laugh and all those things. But he did have a hell of a library, of different lines of dialogue".<ref name=Barrier/> In addition, the studio had voice artist [[Danny Webb (American actor)|Danny Webb]] record new dialog.<ref name="Hischak"/> Kinney also paired Goofy with a narrator voiced by John McLeish: "He had this deep voice, just a great voice, and he loved to recite [[Shakespeare]]. So I suggested, my God, we'll get McLeish for a narrator, and don't tell him that he's not doing it straight. Just let him play it".<ref name=Barrier/> Colvig returned to Disney in 1941 and resumed the voice until 1967.<ref name="Hischak"/>