The Art of Skiing

The Art of Skiing (1941) is a Goofy cartoon short you can watch online on iFILM. Eight minutes, Disney, directed by Jack Kinney. Staying at the Sugar Bowl resort, Goofy sets out to demonstrate the fundamentals of downhill skiing for the audience.

It does not go well. His skis refuse to stay parallel, his poles tangle, and a deadpan narrator keeps insisting the word is pronounced "SHEEing" while our hero tumbles down the slope. One last ramp launches him into a jump that drops him neatly back into bed.

This is golden-age Disney slapstick at its purest — wordless physical comedy that lands for any age. Stream The Art of Skiing (1941) online on iFILM.