He is an elephant who has huge ears and is able to use them to fly, carrying what he thinks of as a magic feather. The title character is Dumbo, the nickname given to Jumbo Jr.

The voice actors are uncredited for their roles in the film. She and Dumbo are given a private coach on the train, and the crows wave goodbye to the elephants as they travel away. Dumbo gains fame and fortune, Timothy becomes his new manager and signs him to a Hollywood contract, and Mrs. He drops the feather, but Timothy assures him it was only a psychological aid, and Dumbo successfully flies about the big top, much to the delight of the public. Holding the feather, Dumbo does indeed take off a second time, and he and Timothy return to the circus with plans to surprise the audience.ĭuring the clowns' act, Dumbo jumps off the platform and prepares to fly. They decide to help Timothy, giving him a 'magic feather' to help Dumbo fly. Initially making fun of Timothy's assertion that Dumbo flew with his ears while drunk, the crows are soon moved by Dumbo's sad story. Both of them get drunk, and hallucinate pink elephants.ĭumbo and Timothy are later discovered asleep high up in a tree by Dandy Crow and his friends. Dumbo, crying after visiting his mother, gets the hiccups, so Timothy takes him to the vat for water. In celebration of the plan, they drink champagne, and a bottle of it falls into a water vat. Meanwhile, the clowns decide to increase the popularity of their fireman act by dangerously raising the platform Dumbo jumps from. Jumbo, but they cannot see each other's faces and can only intertwine trunks.

Timothy decides to take Dumbo to see Mrs. Despite his newfound popularity, he hates the job and becomes depressed. 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. However, Dumbo trips on his ears during the show and knocks over the pyramid, injuring the other elephants and bringing the big top crashing down. He whispers in the ringmaster's ear while the latter sleeps, and convinces him to try a new stunt with Dumbo as the top of a pyramid of elephants. Timothy, a mouse that travels with the circus, befriends Dumbo and decides to make him a star. Dumbo is blamed for the incident and shunned by the other elephants. She is subsequently deemed mad and locked in a cage. Jumbo flies into a rage, eventually dousing the ringmaster in a water tub. Circus staff remove Dumbo from the pen, and Mrs. Jumbo spanks their leader and throws hay bales at them. When some rowdy boys started to bully Dumbo and his ears, Mrs. Jumbo shows her baby great care and love, defending him from the teasing of the other elephants.ĭumbo, clumsy due to his ears, is made into a sideshow attraction. The other elephants are initially delighted, until they see the baby has far-oversized ears, and promptly nickname him 'Dumbo'. The circus sets out on a new tour, and a belated stork catches up with the moving train and drops off the expected baby elephant, Jumbo Junior.

Jumbo, does not receive her baby, and keeps scanning the sky. While a large circus spends the off-season in the 'Winter Grounds' in Florida, a flock of white storks delivers babies to the animals. Ī live-action adaptation of the film directed by Tim Burton was released on March 29, 2019. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically and aesthetically significant'. However, it has also been criticized for racist stereotyping of black people. One voice was synthesized using the Sonovox system, but it, too, was recorded using the RCA System.ĭumbo was released on October 23, 1941, where it was met with generally favorable reviews. Sound was recorded conventionally using the RCA System. At 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features. Made to recoup the financial losses of both Pinocchio and Fantasia, Dumbo was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studios. Throughout most of the film, his only true friend, aside from his mother, is the mouse, Timothy – a relationship parodying the stereotypical animosity between mice and elephants. He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using his ears as wings. The main character is Jumbo Jr., an elephant who is cruelly nicknamed 'Dumbo', as in 'dumb'. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ('Roll-a-Book'). United States/Canada rentals, 1941) ĭumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

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