How to Hook Up Your Home Theater

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = How to Hook Up Your Home Theater
series = Goofy


caption = Poster for "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater"
director = Kevin Deters Stevie Wermers
story_artist = Kevin Deters, Wilbert Plijnaar, Stevie Wermers, Dan Abraham
animator = Andreas Deja, Mark Henn, Eric Goldberg, Dale Baer
voice_actor = Corey Burton Bill Farmer
musician = Michael Giacchino
producer = Chuck Williams John Lasseter
studio = Walt Disney Animation Studios
distributor = Walt Disney Pictures
release_date = flagicon|USA December 21, 2007
color_process = Color
runtime = 6 min
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 1114718

"How to Hook Up Your Home Theater" is a 2007 theatrical cartoon from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Kevin Deters and co-directed by Stevie Wermers-Skelton. This is the first theatrical Goofy solo cartoon short (other than a few educational films) made since "Aquamania" (1961). The short was partially produced using a new "paperless" production pipeline for Disney, the first major change in production technique for hand-drawn animation at Disney since the introduction of CAPS, and was also an attempt to see if the new digital animation tools could be used to produce a short with the same graphic look as that of a 1940s cartoon. Instead of animating with pencil on paper, some of the animators, such as Dale Baer [http://animationpodcast.com/archives/2007/11/04/dale-baer-part-one/#more-138] , worked on Wacom's cintiq tablets along with Toon Boom Harmony for the animation, while other animators such as Mark Henn and Andreas Deja continued to work in the traditional method with pencil on paper. It was reported on Animation World Network [http://mag.awn.com/index.php?&article_no=3454&page=2] that about "50%" of the short was done in the new paperless technique. It is widely expected that Disney's next hand-drawn animated feature The Princess and the Frog will utilize these new techniques.

The short was released with the Disney film "" on December 21, 2007.This short was shown early at the "Animate with the Greats" class taking place at Facet's Theatre. Several Walt Disney Animation Studios animation artists taught the class, including Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers. The short, and many others, are also available for purchase on the iTunes Store.

References to other films

Like many movies, video games, and TV shows, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater features several references to other films.

*The opening and closing scenes, along with the music, is a tribute to one of Disney's original "How to" series: "How to Play Football".
* When the box first arrives, a label on the box says Dopey Digital, referencing, Dopey, one of the Seven Dwarfs of Snow White.
*The name of the actual TV is called M1C- K3Y MO-U5E, a reference to Mickey Mouse
*When Goofy is mounting one of the many speakers, he shoves of several photographs off of a bookshelf. There are four photographs and one trophy. The farthest on the left is a portrait of Walt Disney, the background photo shows Goofy, AKA Dippy Dawg in his debut cartoon, Mickey's Revue (Dippy is the left animal in the middle row), another portrait, this one of Clarabelle Cow, a trophy of Goofy, this one as Cupid, and the final photo is an autographed picture of John Lasseter to Goofy.
*The goldfish that Goofy disrupts is Cleo, Geppetto's Goldfish from Pinocchio.
*Right before the big game, Goofy checks his watch. Said watch is a Mickey Mouse watch.
*At the end, when Goofy is dog piled, a second Goofy riding a horse is part of the pile. This is a reference to the Disney Short, "How to Ride a Horse". Another Goofy dressed as a skier is the fifth player to jump onto the pile, referencing "The Art of Skiing".
*Near the end you can hear the Goofy Holler, a sound that was used in previous goofy cartoons.

External links

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* [http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/2007/howtohookupyourhometheater.html How To Hook Up Your Home Theater] at [http://www.disneyshorts.org The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts]
* [http://ottawa.awn.com/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=163&Itemid=703 Keeping It Old School: Looking Like the 40s in a Digital Age]
* [http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3454&page=3 How to Hook Up Your Animated Short at Disney]
* [http://animated-views.com/2007/deja-and-henn-on-the-return-of-the-goof Deja and Henn on the Return of the Goof]