The Making of A Goofy Movie (1995)

This is the Disney Channel making of special about the Disney Movietoons' film A Goofy Movie. Disney Movietoons was an animation studio established in Paris to create theatrical feature films based on the Disney Afternoon properties. Before this, they'd produced the film Ducktales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. That film had not been the huge success Disney had hoped so production was scaled back for A Goofy Movie.

A Goofy Movie is directed by Kevin Lima who later directed such films as Tarzan and Enchanted. His wife is Brenda Chapman who co-directed such films as The Prince of Egypt and what became Brave.

Eventually the concept of using satellite studios to make animated features transitioned into making cheapquels to the Walt Disney animated features. The Paris studio was eventually folded into Walt Disney Feature Animation with scenes of Tarzan, Atlantis: the Lost Empire, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and others being made there. They also made the Mickey Mouse animated short cartoon Runaway Brain.

A Goofy Movie is loosely based on the Disney Afternoon series Goof Troop as some characters from that series don't appear, although they had been planned to. It was released in 1995 a few months before the studio's big release Pocahontas. Although Pocahontas was the more successful film at the time. Because it had been a Jeffery Katzenberg project, the film was dumped out into theaters with little fanfare, although it had originally been planned to be the Christmas 1994 release. It was a spring 1995 release instead.

A Goofy Movie came to enjoy a longevity as a cult classic, even garnering it's own direct to video cheapquel in 2000.

This making of special is hosted by Jenna Van Oy who voiced the supporting character of Stacey in the film. She was also a sitcom star of the time of the show Blossom. The hosting sequences were filmed in Mickey's Toontown.

What makes this making of documentary unique is it's one of the few to focus on one of Disney's foreign animated films. You get the usual type of behind the scenes interviews involved but with a unique twist to them. A Goofy Movie was created long distance in the analog days which makes how it turned out all the more remarkable.

Original airdate January 20,1995

Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.