SNG Exploration Blog: Jack Kinney

Since I started doing this blog, I talked about my heroes Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Robert McKimson, and now I'm willing to talk about Jack Kinney. My favorite Disney director!

He was truly the Tex Avery of the Walt Disney Company, you can sense that all of Disney is just made up of fairytales and enchanting colors, but have you seen the animated shorts?

They were funny, top-notch, beautiful and comedic.

Now I didn't love these at first, by that time I didn't love how Disney was doing and I was still not into growing up with Mickey Donald and Goofy, but my first experience with a Jack Kinney cartoon was Get Rich Quick (1951).

Looking back it now, I can understand the zany animation and the jokes.

Jack Kinney wasn't only making Goofy shorts, he did some solid Donald Duck shorts and funnier Pluto cartoons.

We're just at the beginning. His cartoons were extremely overlooked and often forgotten. I will just tell you why I was inspired by this true artist.

Here he is with my favorite Disney actor, Pinto Colvig.

The gags were absolutely funny and cartoony at times. While Disney directors like Ben Sharpsteen and Wilfred Jackson have beautiful action scenes and amazing scenery, they weren't always funny, not saying that's bad but once you have Jack Kinney on the spotlight, he can do anything with his cartoons.

How To Sleep is a perfect watch even for insomniacs.

For a person who grew up watching baseball, this was comedy gold.

Also like with Robert McKimson, he made some appealing human designs.

Alright now, so what are my favorite ones to pick?

My first pick is Two Gun Goofy.

Recently watched it and it was hilarious.

This also has the best designs of Pete I ever seen. He isn't too horrendously lighter than he once was, he actually feels like an anthropomorphic animal and just has your average cute like design of a bad guy.

I also liked Goofy's soothing small song at the start.

What is so smart and funny about this cartoon is that Goofy is falling in love over a girl who literally has her face not shown at all.

Goofy's reactions are hilarious.

This cartoon can just tell you that Classic Disney was funny, it was trying and it had the most expressive animation out there. Up there with Warner Bros and MGM.

I do wish the ending was a bit funnier in this cartoon because Goofy just got exploded by dynamite in his pants, and he looks kinda fine, no dirty spots. Yeah, kinda disappointing but it was a fun cartoon.

Motor Mania (1950)

This is one of my favorite cartoons. Everything about this gets stuck in my head all the time.

First of all, Mr. Walker is the best characters in these Goofy cartoons. His walk when he opens the door is animation gold.

Seriously, this part where Mr. Walker is turning into a driven monster before he drives never gets old.

I also love the gags alot and Mr. Walker's expressions are priceless.

Lastly, I loved the short, Hello Aloha (1952)

This one is underrated and I was easily distracted with the colors and fashion in this one.

I have a real soft spot for Hawaii like films and aesthetics. I especially love hawaiian shirts, hawaii music and hawaiian sunsets.

This is probably the funniest scenes in which Goofy (named George Geef) works at his office.

I love him chilling in the tropic islands.

I want this picture on a frame.

This scene involving him painting something, causing a mess and making his art spill on his shirt is a fantastic bit.

We get to see some more chill islanders and delicious food.

My favorite bit in this cartoon is the "Your Fired!" slip on the bottle. I love George Geef's line where he says "You can't fire me! I QUIT!".

That's all of my 3 choices I wanted to talk about. There are alot more of Kinney's cartoons that are creative and funny but let's just say he's a talented and smart cartoonist.