Upon its October 23 release, the film proved to be a major financial success. The United States entered World War II in December , reducing the box office draw of the film, which was nevertheless the most financially successful Disney film of the s, thanks to a re-release.
Jumbo's cell. The film's simplicity and charm have made it the favorite Disney one of many people, including film and animation historian Leonard Maltin. Of particular note is the " Pink Elephants on Parade " sequence, which depicts Dumbo and Timothy's drunken hallucinations. The sequence was the first venture into surrealism for a narrative Disney film, taking its cue from the experimental Fantasia.
The sequence essentially breaks all the "rules" that the Disney animators had lived by for creating realistic animation over the previous decade: pink, polka-dot, and plaid elephants dance, sing, and morph into a number of various objects. The design of the sequence is highly stylized, and many of the artists who worked on it were the younger artists at the studio who joined the picket line in May and eventually would become the nucleus of United Productions of America, the most influential animation studio of the s.
The crows in the film are in fact African-American caricatures; the leader crow, voiced by Caucasian actor Cliff Edwards, was named "Jim Crow", but temporarily renamed "Dandy Crow" in later years, since the s, in an attempt to avoid controversy, and used also in Dumbo -related materials. Actually, the character is still called "Dandy Crow" in the film's cutting continuity, contained in the Walt Disney Archives, but both the names were used in later years, after a time using just the new name.
Though the film is often criticized for the inclusion of the black crows, it is notable that they are the only truly sympathetic characters in the film outside of Dumbo, Mrs. Jumbo, and Timothy. They apologize for picking on Dumbo and Timothy, and they are in fact the ones that help Timothy teach the little elephant to fly. It is also notable that they never mocked Dumbo for his big ears, and they are not based on the Stepin Fetchit stereotype common in the previous decade.
The film received another distinction of note in , when it was the first of Disney's canon of animated films to be released on home video. In the original story, Mrs. Jumbo's original name was Ella. She was not locked away after defending Dumbo from some bullies.
A character named Jack would announce the pyramid of pachyderms, not the Ringmaster. Timothy Mouse was originally Red the Robin. There was also Professor Hoot Owl, who taught him how to fly instead of the Crows. Ella named her baby just Jumbo, not Jumbo Jr. The Gossipy Elephants praised him for his big ears instead of shunning him.
He was thrown into a donkey car by Jack and the Ringmaster, and on his pail they have crossed out J into a D for Dumbo, different from the elephants immediately renaming him that. He talks in the novel, but not in the film. Robert C. Ramirez Joseph: King of Dreams was to direct it, in which Dumbo and his circus friends navigated a large city after being left behind by their traveling circus.
It also sought to explain what happened to Dumbo's father, Mr. Dumbo'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. It was supposed to be set on the day immediately following the end of the first film. Dumbo appears in the first Kingdom Hearts game as a summon spell. When Sora is riding him, he is invulnerable and sprays water at the enemies which counts as ice magic. Enormous crowds lined the streets of London to watch Jumbo being transported to a ship to begin his long journey to America.
In New York, Jumbo soon became the star of the show. His hide was even stuffed and travelled with the circus for a further two years. For more information about Victorian Popular Culture , including trial access and price enquiries, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots.
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