'Goofy and Wilbur' (1939).

Today two sequences of production drawings from one of my favorite Disney shorts,  'Goofy and Wilbur' (production 2218), released on March 17, 1939. Directed by Dick Heumer, the amazing animation was in the hands of Art Babbitt, Izzy Klein, Ed love, Berny Wolf, John Meador and  Wolfgang Reitherman. In the short, Goofy goes out fishing and takes his small grasshopper Wilbur with him. Wilbur is smart and helps Goofy catch all the fish he needs, but not without bringing himself in great peril.

The first sequence is when Goofy arrives at the fishing spot in his little boat and has takes Wilbur out of his can. While Wilbur stretches, Goofy goes 'ya feeling okay? That's the L'il palsy-walsy. Are ya all set?' Wilbur sucks up his chest and spits to show he's ready to rumble. This scene was animated by Wolfgang Reitherman (shown on the original animator drafts as 'Woolie'). I'll do a seperate post for the second sequence (you can check it here).

For reference purposes, I've posted the actual frames from the short below, that show you how it plays out in the final animation: