Teachers Are People

Everything begins as a normal day with a kid named George who refuses to go to school so he changes his clothes we see that every child is riding a bike with other kids until the bus arrives leaving the dogs sad, then we see that Goofy is the teacher for the day of today as he must fair, understandable, honest and intelligent he puts a stop sign on the cars so kids can cross the street then he gets stuck in the middle of the road as he runs very fast, in the class we see that kids are making a mess until he arrives first they sing two songs called Good Morning Your Teacher and Were Happy To Be Here then he makes the role call with every kids names and they learn Geography noticing that George is making a funny face that Spongebob and Patrick would make fun of it then Everything in school goes all right until someone arrives a punched Goofy in the head one time and then a bomb explodes and we see the Bart Simpson running gag writting on the board saying the will not bomb the school.

This is a Goofy cartoon from Disney, where a narrator explains the notions about educating children; Goofy is the teacher.

This is more like an episode of a kids' variety show than a conventional Disney cartoon short with humor, adventures, slapstick comedy and just plain fun. What you get is just a non-entertaining attempt to illustrate the fundamentals of education and what goes around inside the kids' classroom.

While it may be educational, the pacing is very slow and the characters weren't remarkable. Even Goofy himself wasn't funny or laughable. Not one of the better ones.

Grade D

Not one of Goofy's best shorts, with a story that comes across as routine, but very entertaining and also historically interesting. The school violence and the references to it are easy to spot though probably controversial at the time, is amusing and not too violent and fits very well within the story and its concept. The animation is bright and colourful with everything drawn smoothly, and the music is adeptly orchestrated and full of character. One of the Disney shorts' strengths was how the music merged so well with the humour, and you see that with Teachers are People too. The sight gags are slight but very funny and the sort of stuff people can relate to easily, especially the parent-teacher conference and the ending. Goofy is still likable and his everyman persona works so well for him, he's also great here with a scenario that plays to his strengths. Billy is one of those characters that has been seen many times and he is a brat but he is crucial to the story and his actions do make for some genuine laughs to be had. The narration is the sort that entertains and teaches, very like the best of the Disney/Goofy How To...series, and Alan Reed's voice work pitches it perfectly. Pinto Colvig is fine as Goofy too. All in all, interesting, funny and colourful, not one of the best but a winner still. 9/10 Bethany Cox

A Walt Disney GOOFY Cartoon.

Goofy strives to remind the viewer that TEACHERS ARE PEOPLE just like everyone else.

Although humorous, many educators may not be too amused by this little film as it hits too close to the mark. Imagine a classroom with 4 or 5 kids just like young George. The animation & storyline are enjoyable, but routine.

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 storm of naysayers, 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 always pay off.

Disney's Teachers are People is a wacky short that is captured with pure honesty as it portrays all the troubles an average teacher faces in a typical school day. Goofy plays a classroom teacher, forced to teach a plethora of delinquent children who were seemingly never taught respect or kindness and are basically running rampant the entire time, with one student named George causing most of the ruckus. The short is a colorful and often surprisingly hilarious endeavor, all the more-so when you realize how honest it is in the regard that this is what many teachers must put up with each and every day (most of which not to this extreme, I hope). As a minor footnote, the film does include one element that would most definitely not be included today, which is the short concluding with George bombing the school with his punishment being writing "I will never bomb the school again" on the chalkboard over and over again. However, for all the ruckus the short cooks up, it's surprising to note how much the finished product actually is, with bright, vibrant animation taking over and an always entertaining Goofy character taking prominence in the foreground.

Directed by: Jack Kinney.