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Chronology of
Walt Disney's Goofy

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This document is an attempt to bring various published sources together to present a timeline about Walt Disney's Goofy.

Note: This document is not sponsored or endorsed by the Walt Disney Company in any way. No infringement of any of their trademarks is intended, and it is acknowledged that the Disney characters and theme park attractions mentioned within this document are registered trademarks of the Walt Disney Company - including, but not limited to: Walt Disney, Disneyland Paris, Euro Disney, Magic Kingdom, Main Street USA, Frontierland, Adventureland, Fantasyland, Discoveryland, Festival Disney, Audio-Animatronics, Adventure Isle, Space Mountain, Mickey Mouse, Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park, and Captain EO.

References are numbered in [brackets], which are listed here. A number after the dot gives the page in the source.

Last updated: 2021 August 12.


1932

May 12
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Revue is released to theaters. Pluto and Horace Horsecollar also appear. Goofy appears for the first time, with the name "Dippy Dawg". [16] [1] [7] [23] [15] [49.254] [48.129] [97.45] (May 25 [228.328] [232.85])
September 17
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Whoopee Party is released to theaters. Goofy and Minnie Mouse also appear. [7] [15] [16] [23] [501.610]

1933

March 18
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Mellerdrammer is released to theaters. Goofy and Horace Horsecollar also appear. [16] [23] [228.327]
April 8
  • The Mickey Mouse film Ye Olden Days is released to theaters. Dippy Dog (Goofy) and Minnie Mouse also appear. [16] [23] [501.625] (Ye Golden Days [15])

1934

August 11
  • The Mickey Mouse film Orphan's Benefit is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Goofy, Horace Horsecollar, and Clarabelle Cow also appear. [16] [7] [23] [15] [228.374] [1248.42] (Goofy is named [49.254])

1935

March 16
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Service Station is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [15] [228.328]
(month unknown)
  • Development begins on the proposed animated short film, Sea Monster, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. [176.36]
August 3
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Fire Brigade is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Clarabelle Cow, and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.326]
September 28
  • The Mickey Mouse film On Ice is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.369]

1936

January 4
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Polo Team is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.328]
June
  • The idea for an animated short film entitled Sunken Treasure is first proposed, with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy in an underwater adventure. [176.55]
June 20
  • The Mickey Mouse film Moving Day is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.344]
(month unknown)
  • Ted Sears and Merrill de Maris begin work for an animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes, as a Silly Symphony, starring Mickey Mouse, with Donald Duck and Goofy. [176.66] (1938 [176.66])
July 25
  • The Mickey Mouse film Alpine Climbers is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [15] [228.19]

1937

February 20
  • The Mickey Mouse film Moose Hunters is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.341]
April 17
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Amateurs is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Clara Cluck, Clarabelle Cow, and Goofy also appear. [16] [7] [23] [228.324]

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(month unknown)
  • Disney artists work on a proposed animated short film, Jungle Mickey, with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. [176.36]
September 24
  • The Mickey Mouse film Hawaiian Holiday is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Pluto, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.229]
October 15
  • The Mickey Mouse film Clock Cleaners is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.95]
December 21
  • RKO Radio Pictures world premieres Disney's first full-length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Hollywood. It is the world's first color full-length animated talking movie. The US$1.5 million needed to complete the film nearly bankrupted the company. This is the first public appearance of live-actor cartoon characters at the theater - dwarfs, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto. Two million drawings make up the 83-minute film. (Worldwide gross theater ticket sales of the original release: US$8.5 million.) [1] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [11] [13] [16] [15] [21] [22] [23] [185.77] [35.12] [34.101] [37.41] [42.1983] [40.163] [49.243] [48.141] [62] [90.32] [92.11] [97.135] [113.185] [177.35] [191] [206.B19] [230.30] [234.11] [235.56] [238.177] [250.96] [267.111] [370.25] [501.508] [685.29] [745.23] [1102.276] [1248.30] [1361.4] [1374.66]
December 24
  • The Mickey Mouse film Lonesome Ghosts is released. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [7] [23] [228.295]

1938

February 25
  • The Mickey Mouse film Boat Builders is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.62]
May 6
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Trailer is released. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.329]
June 17
  • The Donald Duck film Polar Trappers is released. Goofy also appeared. [16] [23] [228.395]
July 29
  • The Donald Duck and Goofy film The Fox Hunt is released to theaters. The film is a re-make of the Silly Symphony of the same title from 1931. [16] [23] [228.194]
August 19
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Whalers is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [501.603]

1939

March 17
  • The first Goofy film, Goofy and Wilbur, is released to theaters. Wilbur the grasshopper appears for the first time. [16] [23] [97.51] [228.212]
October
  • Dick Creedon and Al Perkins submit a proposal for an animated film entitled Pieces of Eight or Three Buccaneers (later called Morgan's Ghost), with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Black Pete. [176.56]

1940

April 26
  • The Mickey Mouse film Tugboat Mickey is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [501.574]
May 17
  • The Donald Duck film Bill Posters is released to theaters. Goofy also appears. [16] [23] (Billposters [228.55])
November 22
  • The Goofy film Goofy's Glider is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.213]

1941

April 18
  • The Goofy film Baggage Buster is released to theaters. [16] [15] [23] (March 28 [228.38])
June 20
  • RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated and live-action feature film The Reluctant Dragon to theaters. The premiere is held at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. For the most part, this is Disney's first live-action film. It cost US$600,000 to make. The animated Goofy short film How to Ride a Horse, and the animated short film The Reluctant Dragon are included. [7] [8] [11] [13] [16] [22] [23] [25] [34.144] [49.259] [48.163] [97.167] [113.211] [322.26] [370.46] (July 20 [228.411])
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Nifty Nineties is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.357]
August 22
  • The Mickey Mouse film Orphan's Benefit is released to theaters. This is a color re-make of the 1934 film of the same title. Donald Duck, Clara Cluck, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, and Goofy also appear. [16] [7] [15] [23] [96.21] (August 12 [228.374])
October
  • Ches Cobb begins development of the animated short film Ditch Diggers, with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Black Pete. [176.53]
November 14
  • The Goofy film The Art of Skiing is released to theaters. [16] [15] [23] [228.30]
December 26
  • The Goofy film The Art of Self Defense is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.30]

1942

February 7
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Birthday Party is released. Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Clara Cluck, and Goofy also appear. The film is a color remake of the 1931 film The Birthday Party. [16] [23] [96.21] [228.324]
March 20
  • The Mickey Mouse film Symphony Hour is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [501.536]
September 4
  • The Goofy film How to Play Baseball is released to theaters. (Basketball [16]) [16] [23] [228.245]
October 9
  • The Goofy film The Olympic Champ is released to theaters. [16] [15] [23] [228.369]
October 23
  • The Goofy film How to Swim is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.246]
December 4
  • The Goofy film How to Fish is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.245]

1943

February 6
  • RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated feature film Saludos Amigos to theaters in the U.S. It cost US$300,000 to make. It includes the animated short films: Lake Titicaca (with Donald Duck), Pedro, El Gaucho Goofy (with Goofy), and Aquarela do Brasil (with Donald Duck). (Worldwide gross theater receipts: US$1.2 million.) [8] [11] [13] [16] [23] [24] [25] [48.186] [97.181] [190.26] [191] [250.98] [370.57] [501.483] (February 19 [79.57] [113.212])
July 30
  • The Goofy film Victory Vehicles is released. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [501.586]

1944

January 28
  • The Goofy film How to Be a Sailor is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.244]
March 10
  • The Goofy film How to Play Golf is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.245]
September 15
  • The Goofy film How to Play Football is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.245]

1945

January 5
  • The Goofy film Tiger Trouble is released to theaters. [16] [23] [501.558]
April 20
  • The Goofy film African Diary is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.10]
July 13
  • The Goofy film Californy 'er Bust is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.75]
September 7
  • The Donald Duck and Goofy film No Sail is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.360]
September 21
  • The Goofy film Hockey Homicide is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.235]

1946

March 8
  • The Goofy film A Knight for a Day is released to theaters. [16] [15] [23] [228.277]
November 1
  • Disney releases the Donald Duck and Goofy film Frank Duck Brings 'Em Back Alive to theaters. [16] [23] (November 11 [228.195])
December 20
  • Disney releases the Goofy film Double Dribble to theaters. [16] [23] [228.149]

1947

January 30
  • The Goofy film How to Be a Cowboy is shelved. [176.52]
August 1
  • The Donald Duck and Goofy film Crazy With the Heat is released. [16] [15] [23] [228.108]
September 27
  • RKO Radio Pictures releases Disney's animated feature film Fun and Fancy Free to theaters. It includes the animated films Bongo, and Mickey and the Beanstalk (with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy). [11] [13] [14] [16] [23] [25] [97.201] [225.40] [228.198] [370.79] (1948 [113.236])
October 31
  • Disney releases the Goofy film Foul Hunting to theaters. [16] [23] [228.192]

1948

January 23
  • The Goofy film They're Off is released. [16] [23] [501.550]
February 6
  • The Goofy film The Big Wash is released. [16] [23] [228.55] (1947 [15])

1949

August 26
  • The Goofy film Tennis Racquet is released. [16] [23] [501.545]
September 23
  • Disney releases the Goofy film Goofy Gymnastics to theaters. [16] [23] [228.212]

End of 1932-1949. Next: 1950.

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Other web pages of interest:

  • Chronology of the Walt Disney Company
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  • Chronology of Walt Disney's Donald Duck
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  • Chronology of Disneyland
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