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Click on the image for free access to the document until Monday 24th June Life of P. About the Author. Keep up to date. Register to receive our email updates. T he original "Dumbo" cover story still ran in the magazine and Dumbo was still "Mammal of the Year," just with an updated introduction paragraph and no official cover.
At just 64 minutes long , "Dumbo" is one of the shortest Disney feature films ever created. The average Disney film typically runs between 80 and 90 minutes.
Parts of the movie, like the inclusion of crows as stereotypically black characters with a stereotyped vernacular, have been lambasted since the film's debut, according to Mic. The leading crow is even named Jim Crow , an overt allusion to discriminatory Jim Crow laws.
At the Academy Awards, "Dumbo" won for best music, scoring of a musical picture. The film would also win a Cannes Film Festival award for best animation design in If you look carefully as Casey Jr. Although uncredited, Mr. Stork's voice in the film was recorded by Sterling Holloway. In May of , during the production of "Dumbo," Disney animators went on strike. After a few weeks, Disney animators were unionized and "Dumbo" was finished and released later that same year. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
Get the Insider App. Rice in the s. The character as originally depicted was dressed in rags, battered hat and torn shoes.
Rice blackened his face and hands and impersonated a very nimble and irreverently witty African-American field hand. Crow was a popular and influential character in his day, though the name was eventually to become associated with the segregation, both official and unofficial, that was prevalent in the US--mostly in the South--after the Civil War. This film was added to the U. National Film Registry in December In the "Pink Elephants" sequence when the two elephants are ice skating against a black background, the powerful camera lights were causing the background to appear gray on screen.
To rectify this, the animators replaced the black painted background with a large piece of black velvet which did not reflect any light and gave the desired effect. Controversially, the winner was not actually an original song, since it had been previously performed in Disney's fourth animated feature film.
Dumbo's mother's eyes are blue but when she goes "rogue" after the kids attack Dumbo her eyes are blood-red. Perhaps because of its brevity, Walt Disney allowed "Dumbo" to be presented on his network TV program, usually a mark of box office letdown or dwindling receipts, but the appeal of "Dumbo" made it able to find success in later theatrical release.
The animation of Dumbo is credited to Bill Tytla He is considered among the best character animators of his era. The most financially successful film for the Disney studios in the s. At the time it was only the second Disney animated feature to turn a profit on its first release. It would be another nine years before another animated feature would be profitable, with the release of Cinderella Dumbo and his supporting cast were adapted to the Disney comics in While infrequently starring in solo stories, Dumbo himself was for decades a popular character for team-ups and crossovers.
The original Dumbo story that the film is based on was created for a toy storytelling display device called Roll-A-Book. It involved moving pictures and accompanying text to tell the story. In Dumbo's case it only had eight drawings and just a few lines of text.
This is John Lasseter 's favorite movie. Kamen was Disney's head of merchandise licensing and a prototype of the Roll-A-Book storytelling device was displayed to him. He was not much interested in the device but thought the story had potential.
An aerial view of the southeastern United States is shown giving the impression that the film takes place in Florida, the location of Walt Disney World Resort fifty years later. Entered into the Cannes Film Festival. Dumbo is the third prominent character in a Walt Disney feature film with no spoken dialogue. In a sequel of Dumbo , called "Dumbo II", was announced. Ramirez , who had previously co-directed Joseph: King of Dreams The project was in development for years, but in John Lasseter terminated plans for this film and other sequels to Disney's classic films.
When Walt Disney purchased the rights to the original Dumbo story and its characters, his idea was to adapt it into an animated short. However, he eventually decided that there was enough story potential to turn this into the subject of a feature film. While the watercolor painting technique used in the film was unusual for a Disney animated feature, it was hardly new to the studio. Watercolor painting was used for the production of Disney's animated shorts.
Dumbo is the first low-budget Disney animated feature film. Previous Disney productions were more ambitious, and more expensive to produce but often failed to produce much revenue. Walt Disney decided to change methods in this production. Casey Junior is based on a steam locomotive, most likely of American design, and numbered "8" on the Illinois Central Railroad and "1" on his own railroad, but in real life a Baldwin steam locomotive and numbered unknown variously on the Illinois Central Railroad and an unidentified number of other railroads.
Casey Junior is based on that particular locomotive. The plot of the film was mostly developed by two persons, Dick Huemer and Joe Grant. This was unusual at the time, since Disney features often incorporated the ideas of multiple staff members. Rushed through production, this deliberately streamlined and simplified film was designed to be a less complicated antidote to the complexities of Fantasia , which had proven to be a box-office disappointment.
This does not include Chicken Little or Zootopia which only took place on an anthropomorphic world with no humans, the same said for Wreck-It Ralph and its sequel Ralph Breaks the Internet which focused on video games and other technology related material, as well as Dinosaur which took place in Pangea. The first Disney film in which the score is composed by Oliver Wallace, who previously worked as the uncredited orchestrator and conductor for "Pinocchio" and other Disney shorts of the late 's.
Walt Disney Animation Studios' first film to not include a clear main antagonist with the possible exception of the Ringmaster and so far the only one to do so until The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh The vocals for the song Baby Mine were performed by Betty Noyes, the same singer who dubbed Debbie Reynolds' singing in two numbers in Singin' in the Rain.
The first Disney animated film that was not based off of a fairy tale and the first to be based off of a novel. Joseph W. Stilwell Robert Stack is reduced to tears as he watches it at a theater. Promo art for "" showed a theater marquee featuring "Dumbo. Dumbo appears as a bubble toy in The Great Mouse Detective. In the early sequence depicting the raising of the big top the black workers have no faces. After accidentally drinking champagne, Dumbo hallucinates pink elephants.
Timothy Q. Mouse has a theophoric name, a name invoking a deity. The root words in Greek are the verb "timao" "I honor" and "theos" god, God. Grimpoteuthis is a genus of pelagic umbrella octopuses known as the Dumbo octopuses.
The name "Dumbo" originates from their resemblance to the title character of Disney's film Dumbo, having a prominent ear-like fin which extends from the mantle above each eye.
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