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1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney

Dumbo
Dumbo-1941-poster.jpg

Original theatrical release poster
Directed by Supervising Manager
  • Ben Sharpsteen
Sequence Directors
  • Norman Ferguson
  • Wilfred Jackson
  • Beak Roberts
  • Jack Kinney
  • Samuel Armstrong
Story by
  • Joe Grant
  • Dick Huemer
Based on Dumbo, the Flying Elephant
by Helen Aberson
Harold Pearl
Produced past Walt Disney
Starring
  • Edward Brophy
  • Verna Felton
  • Cliff Edwards
  • Herman Bing
  • Sterling Holloway
  • Margaret Wright
  • Hall Johnson Choir
Narrated by John McLeish
Music past Frank Churchill
Oliver Wallace

Product
visitor

Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

Release dates
  • October 23, 1941 (1941-x-23) (New York Metropolis)[one]
  • October 31, 1941 (1941-10-31) (U.S.)

Running time

 64 minutes
Country United States
Linguistic communication English
Budget $950,000[2]
Box office >$ane.three 1000000 (est. United States/Canada rentals, 1941)[3]

Dense is a 1941 American animated fantasy motion picture produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, information technology is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated past Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book").[4] [5] The master grapheme is Colossal Jr., an elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo", as in "impaired". He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flight by using his ears every bit wings. Throughout about of the film, his just truthful friend, bated from his female parent, is the mouse, Timothy – a relationship parodying the stereotypical antagonism betwixt mice and elephants.

Made to recoup the financial losses of both Pinocchio and Fantasia, Dumbo was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economic system for the Disney studios. At 64 minutes, information technology is one of Disney'due south shortest animated features. Audio was recorded conventionally using the RCA Organisation. One voice was synthesized using the Sonovox system, just it, too, was recorded using the RCA Organisation.

Dumbo was released on Oct 23, 1941, where information technology was met with generally favorable reviews.[half-dozen] It has since been considered to be amongst the greatest animated films of all fourth dimension. In 2017, the motion-picture show was selected for preservation in the United States National Moving-picture show Registry by the Library of Congress every bit being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".[7]

A live-action adaptation of the picture directed past Tim Burton was released on March 29, 2019.

Plot

While a large circus spends the off-season in the "Winter Grounds" in Florida, a flock of white storks delivers babies to the animals. 1 elephant, Mrs. Colossal, does not receive her infant, and keeps scanning the sky. The circus sets out on a new tour, and a belated stork catches up with the moving railroad train and drops off the expected babe elephant, Colossal Junior. The other elephants are initially delighted, until they see the baby has far-oversized ears, and promptly nickname him "Dumbo". All the same, Mrs. Jumbo shows her baby peachy care and love, defending him from the teasing of the other elephants.

Dumbo, impuissant due to his ears, is fabricated into a sideshow allure. When some rowdy boys start blowing in and pulling Dumbo'south ears, Mrs. Jumbo spanks their leader and throws hay bales at them. Circus staff remove Dumbo from the pen, and Mrs. Colossal flies into a rage, eventually dousing the ringmaster in a water tub. She is afterward deemed mad and locked in a muzzle. Dumbo is blamed for the incident and shunned by the other elephants.

Timothy, a mouse that travels with the circus, befriends Dumbo and decides to make him a star. He whispers in the ringmaster'southward ear while the latter sleeps, and convinces him to attempt a new stunt with Dumbo as the height of a pyramid of elephants. Withal, Dumbo trips on his ears during the show and knocks over the pyramid, injuring the other elephants and bringing the big top crashing down. After this, the other elephants exile Dumbo completely, and he is put in with the clowns' firemen act, regularly jumping from a "burning building" prop into a vat of pie filling. Despite his newfound popularity, he hates the chore and becomes depressed.

Timothy decides to accept Dumbo to see Mrs. Colossal, but they cannot see each other'south faces and tin only intertwine trunks. Meanwhile, the clowns decide to increase the popularity of their fire-eater act by dangerously raising the platform Dumbo jumps from. In celebration of the plan, they drink champagne, and a bottle of it falls into a water vat. Dumbo, crying afterward visiting his mother, gets the hiccups, and then Timothy takes him to the vat for h2o. Both of them become drunk, and hallucinate pinkish elephants.

Dense and Timothy are after discovered comatose high up in a tree by Bang-up Crow and his friends. Initially making fun of Timothy'southward assertion that Dumbo flew with his ears while drunk, the crows are soon moved by Dumbo's deplorable story. They decide to assistance Timothy, giving him a "magic feather" to assistance Dense wing. Property the plumage, Dense does indeed take off a second time, and he and Timothy return to the circus with plans to surprise the audience.

During the clowns' act, Dumbo jumps off the platform and prepares to fly. He drops the feather, but Timothy assures him it was only a psychological aid, and Dense successfully flies near the big top, much to the delight of the public. Dumbo gains fame and fortune, Timothy becomes his new manager and signs him to a Hollywood contract, and Mrs. Jumbo is freed. She and Dense are given a private coach on the railroad train, and the crows wave farewell to the elephants as they travel away.

Voice bandage

The voice actors are uncredited for their roles in the moving-picture show.

  • The title grapheme is Dumbo, the nickname given to Jumbo Jr. He is an elephant who has huge ears and is able to utilize them to wing, carrying what he thinks of as a magic feather. Like Dopey in Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, Gideon in Pinocchio, and Tootles in Peter Pan, Dumbo does not have a give-and-take of spoken dialogue.
  • Edward Brophy as Timothy Q. Mouse, an anthropomorphic mouse who becomes the only friend of Dumbo, along with the crows, after his mother is locked upward and does his best to make Dumbo happy again. He teaches Dumbo how to become the "ninth wonder of the universe", and the only flying elephant in the globe. He is never mentioned by proper name in the flick, but his signature can be read on the contract in a newspaper photograph at the finale.
  • Verna Felton as Elephant Matriarch, the well-meaning only pompous leader of the elephants who is initially cold toward Dumbo. Felton besides voices Mrs. Jumbo, Dense'southward mother, who speaks merely once in the flick to give Dumbo's name.
  • Cliff Edwards as Dandy Crow (previously named Jim Crow on the original model sheets), the leader of a group of crows. Though he initially jokes and ridicules Timothy'due south thought that Dumbo can fly, he hears Dumbo'south tragic history and becomes adamant to help Dumbo fly for real. He is never mentioned by proper noun in the moving-picture show.
  • Herman Bing equally The Ringmaster, who, though not truly evil, is a strict, greedy, and arrogant man who exploits workers and animals. The Ringmaster later appears as an outright villain in the video game Disney's Villains' Revenge.
  • Sterling Holloway as Mr. Stork, Dumbo's carrier stork seen at the beginning of the film.
  • Margaret Wright every bit Casey Junior, the sentient ii-four-0 tender locomotive hauling the circus train.
  • The Hall Johnson Choir as Crow Chorus
    • Hall Johnson as Deacon Crow
    • James Baskett every bit Fats Crow
    • Nick Stewart as Specks Crow
    • Jim Carmichael as Dopey Crow
  • The Rex's Men as Roustabout Chorus
  • Noreen Gammill as Elephant Catty
  • Dorothy Scott equally Elephant Giddy
  • Sarah Selby equally Elephant Nice
  • Billy Bletcher every bit Clown
  • Malcolm Hutton as Smitty
  • John McLeish as the narrator

Production

Development

Dumbo is based upon a children's story written by Helen Aberson-Mayer and Harold Pearl,[4] with illustrations by Helen Durney.[8] The children'southward book was first brought to the attention of Walt Disney in late 1939 by Kay Kamen, the studio's head of merchandise licensing, who showed a image of the Roll-A-Book that included Dumbo. Disney immediately grasped its possibilities and heartwarming story and purchased the rights to information technology.[9]

Originally information technology was intended to exist a brusque motion-picture show; however, Disney presently constitute that the only manner to practice justice to the volume was to get in a characteristic-length film.[10] At the time, the foreign markets in Europe had been curtailed due to World War Two, which caused Pinocchio and Fantasia to neglect at the box office. With the film'southward modest budget, Dumbo was intended to be a low-budget feature designed to bring revenue to the studio.[half dozen] Story artists Dick Huemer and Joe Grant were assigned to develop the plot into a characteristic-length motion-picture show. From January 22 to March 21, 1940, they wrote a 102-page script outline in chapters, much like a book, an unusual way of writing a moving-picture show script. They conceived the stork-delivery and the pinkish elephants sequences and had Dense'southward mother renamed from "Mother Ella" to "Mrs. Colossal". They riffed on elephants' fear of mice by replacing a wise robin named "Ruby" establish in the original story with the wisecracking mouse character, Timothy. They also added a "rusty black crow", which was later expanded into five.[11] Regardless of this, very petty was changed from the original draft.[12] In March 1940, a story team headed by Otto Englander translated the outline into story sketches.[13]

Animation

From Disney'south perspective, Dumbo required none of the special effects that had slowed downward production and grew the budgets of Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Bambi.[14] When the motion picture went into production in early 1941, supervising director Ben Sharpsteen was given orders to keep the film elementary and inexpensive.[15] As a result, the character designs are simpler, background paintings are less detailed, and a number of held cels (or frames) were used in the graphic symbol animation. Although the film is more "cartoony" than previous Disney films, the animators brought elephants and other animals into the studio to study their motion.[10]

Watercolor paint was used to render the backgrounds. Dumbo is ane of the few Disney features to utilize the technique, which was also used for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and regularly employed for the various Disney cartoon shorts. The other Disney features used oil paint and gouache. 2002'south Lilo & Run up, which drew influences from Dense, also made apply of watercolor backgrounds.[16]

Disney animators' strike

During a story meeting for Bambi on Feb 27, 1940, Disney observed that Dumbo was "an obvious straight cartoon" and that the animators that were assigned on Bambi were not advisable for the await of Dense. Animators such as Art Babbitt and Ward Kimball were considered for the moving picture.[14] For that reason, less experienced animators were brought on to animate the characters. Kimball recalled that Disney approached him in a parking lot almost Dumbo and summarized the entire story in five minutes. "And listening to him tell that story," Kimball noted, "I could tell that the picture was going to work. Considering everything sounded right. It had a swell plot." In spite of this, Bill Tytla, who was one of the studio's top animators, blithe the title character, but admitted that "information technology was in the nature of the film to go very fast and get information technology out in a hurry." To speed up product, Disney used photostats of story sketches instead of full layout artwork for the film, and had experienced animators to supervise the younger, less experienced animators assigned on the film.[17]

Production on the picture was interrupted on May 29, 1941 when much of the Disney animation staff went on strike. Kimball chose to not to strike, but his close friend Walt Kelly, who was an assistant animator helping him on the crow sequence, left the studios shortly subsequently for reasons unrelated to the strike.[18]

The clowns' requests to get a enhance from their dominate is a reference to the Disney animators that went on strike in 1941 (during the creation of the motion-picture show), enervating higher pay from Walt himself. Moreover, the clowns, or at least their silhouettes, are caricatures of those animators.[nineteen]

Music

Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace scored the film while Ned Washington wrote the lyrics to the songs. For their piece of work on the score, Churchill and Wallace won the University Honour for All-time Original Score. Churchill and Washington'southward work on "Baby Mine" also garnered a nomination for the Academy Award for All-time Original Song.

Songs

Original songs performed in the flick include:

No. Title Performer(due south) Length
1. "Look Out for Mr. Stork" The Sportsmen
2. "Casey Inferior" The Sportsmen
three. "Song of the Roustabouts" The King's Men
4. "Baby Mine" Betty Noyes
5. "The Clown Song (A.K.A. We're Gonna Hit the Big Boss for a Raise)" Billy Bletcher, Eddie Holden & Billy Sheets
half-dozen. "Pinkish Elephants on Parade" The Sportsmen
7. "When I See an Elephant Fly" Cliff Edwards & The Hall Johnson Choir
eight. "When I See an Elephant Fly (Reprise)" Chorus

Release

Dense was completed and delivered to Disney'southward distributor, RKO Radio Pictures, on September 11, 1941.[20] RKO initially balked at the film's 64-minute length and asked Disney to add another ten minutes. Disney refused, "No, that's as far equally I can stretch information technology. Yous can stretch a thing and so far and so it won't hold. The picture is right every bit it is. And another ten minutes is liable to cost five hundred chiliad dollars. I can't afford it."[21] The film was re-released in theaters in 1949, 1959, 1972, and 1976.[22]

Television circulate

Dumbo had its television premiere on September 14, 1955,[23] admitting severely edited, as an installment of the Disneyland television set show. The pic was shown unaltered on September 17, 1978, every bit office of a two-dark salute to the programme's 25th anniversary.

Dwelling media

Forth with Alice in Wonderland, Dense was the first of Disney'southward catechism of animated films to be released on home video. The moving picture was originally released on June 26, 1981 on VHS and Betamax, which was followed with a release on Laserdisc and CED in June 1982.[24] It was once again re-released on VHS and Betamax as part of the Walt Disney Classics series on November six, 1985.[25] The film was re-released on VHS and Laserdisc on July 12, 1991.[26] It was followed by another re-issue on VHS and Laserdisc on October 28, 1994 as a part of the Walt Disney Masterpiece Drove.[27] On October 23, 2001, a 60th Anniversary Edition was released in VHS and DVD formats.[28] [29] [30]

In 2006, a "Big Top Edition" of the pic was released on DVD.[31] [32] [33] A 70th Ceremony Edition of the film was released in the Usa on September twenty, 2011.[34] [35] [36] The 70th Anniversary Edition was produced in 2 different packages: a 2-disc Blu-ray/DVD philharmonic pack and a 1-disc DVD.[36] [37] The film was also released as a picture show download.[36] All versions of the 70th Anniversary Edition comprise deleted scenes and several bonus features, including "Taking Flight: The Making of Dumbo" and "The Magic of Dense: A Ride of Passage," while the 2-disc Blu-ray version additionally includes games, blithe shorts, and several exclusive features.[36] [38] [39] The motion picture was re-released on Blu-ray and DVD on April 26, 2016 to celebrate its 75th anniversary.

Reception

Box office

Despite the appearance of Globe War 2, Dense was nevertheless the most financially successful Disney motion-picture show of the 1940s. After its Oct 23 release, Dense proved to be a fiscal miracle compared to other Disney films. The unproblematic film only cost $950,000 (equivalent to $17,500,000 in 2021) to produce,[2] half the toll of Snow White, less than a 3rd of the price of Pinocchio, and certainly less than the expensive Fantasia. Dumbo eventually grossed roughly more $1.3 meg (equivalent to $29,480,000 in 2021) during its original release.[iii] The flick returned a profit of $850,000.[21]

Critical reception

Variety wrote that Dumbo was "a pleasant little story, enough of desolation mixed with the large doses of humor, a number of highly-seasoned new brute characters, lots of good music, and the usual Disney skillfulness in technique in drawing and use of color."[40] Cecelia Ager, writing in PM, called Dense "the nicest, kindest Disney all the same. It has the most gustation, beauty, compassion, skill, restraint. It marks a return to Disney first principles, the creature kingdom—that happy country where Disney workers turn into artists; where their imagination, playfulness, ingenuity, daring flourish freest; where, in brusque, they're home."[41]

Bosley Crowther, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote that the film was "the virtually genial, the virtually endearing, the most completely precious cartoon feature motion picture always to sally from the magical brushes of Walt Disney'southward wonder-working artists".[42] Time wrote: "Like story and characters, Dumbo 's coloring is soft and subdued, free from picture-postcard colors and confusing detail—a significant technical advance. But the charm of Dense is that information technology again brings to life that near human animal kingdom where Walter Elias Disney is male monarch of them all."[43] Harrison'southward Reports praised the pic as "i of Walt Disney's well-nigh delightful offerings. Technically, it is fantabulous; the color is exceptionally adept. The story itself is pleasing; it combines comedy with human appeal. The only fault is that occasionally the action slows down."[44]

Additionally, Fourth dimension had originally scheduled to run a story with an appearance embrace for "Mammal of the Year" (a play on its annual "Man/Person of the Yr" laurels) on December 8, 1941. Notwithstanding, the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7 of that year had postponed it, and the story was after published on Dec 29.[45] [46]

Among retrospective reviews, motion-picture show critic Leonard Maltin stated that Dumbo is his favorite of Disney's films and he described information technology as "one of Walt Disney's most charming animated films".[47] In 2011, Richard Corliss of Time named the film equally one of the 25 all-fourth dimension all-time animated films.[48] On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approving rating of 98% based on 43 reviews, with an boilerplate score of viii.three/10. The website'southward consensus reads "Dumbo packs plenty of story into its brief runtime, along with all the warm animation and wonderful music you'd expect from a Disney classic."[49] Metacritic has assigned a weighted score of 96 out of 100 for Dumbo based on 11 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[50]

Controversy

The flick has been criticized by some for its treatment of race. The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Films (2018) notes that "All of the circus laborers are African American, the simply time that blacks are seen in any great number in the entire movie."[51] Film scholar Richard Schickel, in his 1968 volume The Disney Version, argued that the group of crows in the flick were African American stereotypes.[52] The lead crow, voiced by white histrion Cliff Edwards in an fake of Southern African American dialect,[53] was named "Jim Crow", after the pre-Civil-War minstrel graphic symbol. The term had get a pejorative term for African Americans, and usually referred to racial segregation laws, and the character's name was changed in the 1950s to "Slap-up Crow" in attempt to avert controversy.[1] [54] [55] The other crows were voiced past African American actors and singers of the popular all-black "Hall Johnson Choir", including actors James Baskett (Song of the Due south) and Nick Stewart (The Amos 'north' Andy Show). Ward Kimball, the principal animator of the crows, used famous African-American dancers Freddie and Eugene Jackson as live-activeness reference for the characters. The personalities and mannerisms of the crows—specifically their fast-paced, dorsum and along dialogue—were inspired by the backchat found on the band records of Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong.[12] Karina Longworth, exploring the history of Song of the South in her podcast You Must Retrieve This, discussed the basis of the crows in minstrel show culture, equally function of a wider use of minstrel civilisation by Walt Disney.[56]

Some however have dedicated the characters of the Crows. In his 1973 volume The Disney Films, film historian and critic Leonard Maltin argued that the crows "are undeniably black, but they are black characters, not black stereotypes. In that location is no denigrating dialogue, or Uncle Tomism in the scene, and if offense is to be taken in hearing blacks call each other 'brother', then the viewer is merely sensitive to accurateness."[57] Animation historian John Canemaker felt that the crows were amongst the very few characters in the film that understand and are empathetic with Dumbo's plight since being a marginalized indigenous grouping themselves, they can relate to Dumbo as a beau outcast. He further added the crows "are the virtually intelligent, the happiest, the freest spirited characters in the whole film."[12] In 1980, motion picture critic Michael Wilmington referred to the crows as "father figures", self-bodacious individuals who are "obvious parodies of proletarian blacks", but comments, "The crows are the snappiest, liveliest, most together characters in the flick. They are tough and generous. They bow down to no one. And, of class, it is they who teach Dumbo to wing."[58]

In 2017, Whoopi Goldberg expressed the desire for the crow characters to be more merchandised past Disney, "considering those crows sing the song in Dumbo that everybody remembers."[59] In 2019, Floyd Norman, the first African-American animator hired at Walt Disney Productions during the 1950s, dedicated the crows in an article entitled Black Crows and Other PC Nonsense.[threescore] [61]

The crows and Timothy Q. Mouse were non included in the 2019 alive-action/CGI remake of Dumbo.[62] In 2019, information technology was reported that an edited version of the blithe film without the crows would be featured on the forthcoming Disney+ service.[63] Yet, the film does appear on Disney+ uncensored, with an informational in the synopsis warning "it may contain outdated cultural depictions."[64] [65] In 2021, the film was ane of several that Disney express to viewers 7 years and older on their service Disney+, citing similarity of the crows' depictions to "racist minstrel shows".[66]

Awards and honors

Dumbo won the 1941 Academy Honor for Best Original Score, awarded to musical directors Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace. Churchill and lyricist Ned Washington were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Infant Mine" (the song that plays during Dumbo's visit to his mother's prison cell), but did non win for this category.[67] The film also won All-time Animation Design at the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.[68]

Year Anniversary Award Consequence[69]
1941 Academy Awards Best Scoring of a Musical Motion picture Won
Best Original Vocal
(For the vocal "Babe Mine") 		Nominated
1947 Cannes Moving picture Festival All-time Animation Design Won

The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:

  • 2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs:
    • "Baby Mine" – Nominated[lxx]
  • 2006: AFI'south 100 Years...100 Cheers – Nominated[71]
  • 2006: AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals – Nominated[72]
  • 2008: AFI's 10 Top x:
    • Nominated Animation Flick[73]

Media and trade

Dumbo's Circus

Dumbo's Circus is a live-action/puppet television series for preschool audiences that aired on The Disney Channel in the 1980s. Different in the picture, Dumbo spoke on the testify. Each graphic symbol would perform a special act, which ranged from dancing and singing to telling knock knock jokes.

Books

  • Walt Disney'due south Dumbo: Happy to Help: (ISBN 0-7364-1129-1) A moving picture book published by Random Firm Disney, written by Liane Onish and illustrated by Peter Emslie. It was published January 23, 2001. This paperback is for children anile 4–8. 20-iv pages long, its 0.08 of an inch thick, and with cover dimensions of seven.88 x 7.88 inches.
  • Walt Disney'due south Dense Book of Opposites: (ISBN 0-307-06149-iii) A book published in Baronial 1997 past Golden Books under the Gold Board Book make. It was written past Alan Benjamin, illustrated by Peter Emslie, and edited past Heather Lowenberg. Twelve pages long and a quarter of an inch thick, this lath edition book had dimensions of 7.25 x vi.00 inches.
  • Walt Disney's Dumbo the Circus Baby: (ISBN 0-307-12397-ix) A volume published in September 1993 by Gold Press under the A Golden Sturdy Shape Volume brand. Illustrated by Peter Emslie and written by Diane Muldrow, this book is meant for babies and preschoolers. Twelve pages long and half an inch thick, this book's encompass size is 9.75 x six.25 inches.

Theme parks

Dumbo the Flying Elephant is a pop ride that appears in Disneyland,[74] Walt Disney Earth's Magic Kingdom,[75] Tokyo Disneyland,[76] Disneyland Park (Paris), and Hong Kong Disneyland.[77] It is located in Fantasyland.

The Casey Jr. Circus Train is an allure found at Disneyland and Disneyland Paris.

In June 2009, Disneyland introduced a flight Dumbo to their night fireworks show, in which the elephant flies around Sleeping Beauty Castle while fireworks synched to music go off.[78]

Casey Inferior is the 2d bladder in the Main Street Electric Parade and its versions. Casey, driven by Goofy, pulls a drum with the parade logo and Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.

Video games

The Ringmaster appears as one of iv villains in the 1999 PC game Disney'south Villains' Revenge. In the game, the Disney Villains alter the happy endings from Jiminy Cricket's book; in particular, the Ringmaster forces Dense to endlessly perform humiliating stunts in his circus. In the end, the Ringmaster is defeated when he is knocked unconscious by a well-aimed custard pie.

Dense appears in the popular PlayStation 2 game Kingdom Hearts released in 2002 in the form of a summon that the actor tin call upon in battle for aid. Sora, the protagonist, flies on Dumbo while he splashes enemies with water from his trunk.[79] Dumbo reprises his role as a summon in the follow-upwards game Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories released in 2004 for the Game Male child Advance.

Cancelled sequel

In 2001, the "60th Ceremony Edition" DVD of Dense featured a sneak peek of the proposed sequel Dumbo Two, including new character designs and storyboards. Robert C. Ramirez (Joseph: Rex of Dreams) was to directly the sequel, in which Dumbo and his circus friends navigated a large city afterward beingness left behind by their traveling circus. Dense 2 too sought to explicate what happened to Dumbo's father, Mr. Colossal. Dense's circus friends included the chaotic twin bears Claude and Lolly, the curious zebra Dot, the older, independent hippo Godfry, and the adventurous ostrich Penny. The animals were metaphors for the different stages of childhood.[eighty] Dumbo Two was supposed to exist set on the day immediately following the stop of the outset Dumbo motion-picture show.[81] John Lasseter cancelled Dense II,[80] soon after being named Chief Artistic Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2006.[82]

Live-action accommodation

On July eight, 2014, Walt Disney Pictures announced that a live-activeness adaptation of Dense was in evolution. In the same announcement, Ehren Kruger was confirmed equally the screenwriter, as well equally co-producer with Justin Springer.[83] On March ten, 2015, Tim Burton was announced as the manager.[84] [85] On Jan 11, 2017, it was reported that Will Smith was in talks to star in the remake as the father of some children who befriend Dumbo.[86] That same twenty-four hours, it was revealed that Tom Hanks had reportedly been offered to play the pic's villain.[87] The following calendar month, information technology was announced that Smith would not be starring in the motion-picture show.[88] Smith had apparently passed on the projection due to a disagreement over salary and scheduling as well every bit to star in Bad Boys for Life,[89] all the same, went on to play the office of the Genie in the 2019 live-activity remake of Aladdin. In March 2017, it was reported that Eva Light-green was in talks to play a trapeze artist.[90] Following this proclamation, Danny DeVito was cast as a ringleader named Medici.[91] Two weeks later, it was reported that Colin Farrell had entered negotiations to play the role of Holt, which was originally offered to Will Smith.[92] On April 4, 2017, Michael Keaton, Burton'due south former frequent collaborator, entered talks to star as the villain.[93] Keaton confirmed his involvement with the film on June 26, 2017.[94] Filming took place at Cardington Studios in Bedfordshire, England.[95] On July fifteen, 2017, Disney appear the casting for all of the master roles and that the film would exist released on March 29, 2019.[96] DeObia Oparei, Joseph Gatt and Alan Arkin besides play new characters created for the film.[97] [98] [99]

Meet besides

  • Seeing pink elephants
  • Roles of mothers in Disney media

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External links

  • Official website
  • Dumbo at the American Film Found Catalog
  • Helen R. Durney collection at Syracuse University - the original sketches for the Dumbo Curlicue-a-Book.
  • Dumbo at IMDb
  • Dumbo at The Big Cartoon DataBase
  • Dumbo at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Dumbo at Box Office Mojo

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