A Knight for a Day (1946)

Director:

Jack Hannah

Writer:

Bill Peet (story)

Release Date:

8 March 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Animation | Short

Plot:

By accident, Cedric (Goofy), replaces his master, Sir Loinsteak, in the armor just before the joust with champion Sir Cumference. |

Plot Keywords:

Joust | Medieval Times | Surrealism | Furry | Underdog Gets Girl

Directed by
Jack Hannah

Writing credits
Bill Peet		(story)

Produced by
Walt Disney	....	producer

Original Music by
Oliver Wallace

Animation Department
Hugh Fraser	....	animator
Yale Gracey	....	layout artist
Eric Larson	....	animator
John Reed	....	animator
Judge Whitaker	....	animator
Thelma Witmer	....	background artist

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributors

• Abril Vídeo (19??) (Brazil) (VHS)
• RKO Radio Pictures
• Walt Disney Home Video (2002) (USA) (DVD)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Australia:G

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

Included on Disney's DVD edition of The Sword in the Stone (1963)

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Mouse Factory: Knighthood (#2.4)" (1972)

A Knight Tale With Goofy

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.

As Sir Cumference battles Sir Loinsteak for the British Empire championship at Canterbury Castle, the chance finally comes for lowly squire Cedric to become A KNIGHT FOR A DAY.

The Middle Ages come in for a ribbing as myriad Goofy look-alikes bumble about, beating at each other with medieval weapons. The animation is unremarkable, but the story, written by the celebrated Bill Peet, is humorous.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by 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 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 simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.