Boat Builders (1938)

Release Date:

25 February 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Short

Plot:

Mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists Goofy and Donald to help assemble it. The plans say, "so simple a child could do it"...

Plot Keywords:

Boat | Goofy The Character | Donald Duck | Mickey Mouse | Shipyard

Cast

  (Cast)

Pinto Colvig	...	Goofy (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Marcellite Garner	...	Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Clarence Nash	...	Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

UK:U | Argentina:Atp

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

Shown in front of 2-D prints of Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Goofs:

Continuity: At about two minutes and ten seconds into the film, Goofy is seen hammering a nail into a board presumably meant for the starboard side of the ship. However, when he take his hand away, there are two nails hammered in, not one.

Quotes:

Mickey Mouse: All you do is put it together.
Donald Duck: Even a child can do it.

Movie Connections:

Featured in 'Pinto' Colvig: The Man Behind the Goof (2002) (V)

Down To The Sea With Mickey & Friends

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

Folding-kit BOAT BUILDERS Mickey, Goofy & Donald attempt to put together their small ship with predictably disastrous results.

Featuring first rate animation & a very funny plot, this classic little film reunites the three buddies in another cartoon not dissimilar to CLOCK CLEANERS (1937), their hit of the year before. Goofy & the Duck carry most of the show, with their voice artists - Pinto Colvig & Clarence Nash - giving topnotch performances. Voiced by Walt Disney, Mickey easily steps into the position of good guy & regular fellow. Miss Minnie has a quick cameo and sharp-eyed movie mavens will spot Horace Horsecollar & Clarabelle Cow among the crowd at the launching.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work will always pay off.