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Walt Disney Project Part 5
Dumbo (1941)
By The Walt Disney Company
Disney’s animated classic Dumbo (1941) is the charming yet captivating tale of a young circus performing elephant with abnormally larger-sized ears. The opening sequence is a depiction usually missed by most viewers for the time as the era is 1941, the stage performance of Circus in Florida with storks dropping off newborn babies to various circus animals. The cinematic tale focuses on the tough struggles of a small elephant apart of the circus traveling show, who is bullied by others for his unusually large-sized ears for a performing African Grey Elephant. However, the other stage performing elephants part of the circus bully and belittle, as well as being cruel to the smallest new addition to the elephants. Luckily, the main elephant protagonist had his mother’s love and affection to protect her little one. Unfortunately, the circumstances of the main small elephant protagonist's journey are steered into a lonely journey, as the pair are separated and the mother of the main character is forced out of Dumbo’s life, and in turn, like so many in a life forced to grow up fast in a performing circus. The elephant is forced to endure the backdrop of abuse and lonely existence without his mother there to shield him from the horrors, as the realization of his parents' love fanes the hardships of reality.
Through the hardships of struggles and endurance of Dumbo’s journey, our large ear mascot meets and Befriending a mouse named Timothy who stands in as Dumbo’s parent, our little pachyderm sets out to prove himself in the circus. However, unlike the circumstances of Jimmy Cricket's symbiotic kinship of the mouse and elephant turns into nose dive of unwelcome circumstances and incident involves hints of depression and sadness from failing to impress the circus with his performance being swept up from them, by his large ears that results in Timothy and Dumbo getting into trouble by exhibiting characteristics of being drunk and finding themselves in a tree of all places. The opening scenes are met with a cast of a flock of crows, who aspire Dumbo, which was revealed by the next cinematic entrance of a group of avian crow characters Dandy “Jim” Crow, Fats, Deacon, Dopey, and Specks as needed authority figures main big-eared elephant needed to grow as a character, as exploits of Dumbo found to give him purpose. The exploits of the small elephants' accomplishments were recognized by the next supporting cast of friendly crows who help Dumbo to spread his wings ‘figuratively,’ spiritually, or morally, and using his own larger ears to find he was special all along and to find his mother to reunite. The classic Disney movie gives us the premise of the dark tale, or a lost elephant of turmoil, and allows the elephant to soar into our hearts with the major exploit of zero to hero by the end of the movie to tug on your heartstrings.
Part 1: The Review
The Walt Disney Company of 1941 struck gold by creating this hundred percent original story, with a little budget that soared at theater box offices outdoing the past two failures of Disney Studios of 1940s releases of Pinocchio and Fantasia. The animated story of Dumbo (1941) was the fourth animated film released, that captures the enduring moments of a mother & child, and dealing with the loss and heartache of parents' love and admiration, as well as how to deal with that grief in a way. As this year Walt Disney himself was struck by the chords of tragedy with the loss of his own mother, Flora Call Disney in 1938. Shortly two years before the subsequent failures of both Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940. Moreover, the creator himself blamed his circumstances of the bombing of the performance of a movie on his mother’s death, while harboring self-hatred because of the loss of his solid foundation as his mother. The Disney Classic Dumbo (1941) and eventually Bambi (1942) are core examples of the symbiotic parent or guardian role of the main protagonist. Unlike, the sad spun circumstances of Walt Disney’s own life, Dumbo figuratively had a less tragic circumstance that was about loss of aspect of separation, rather than circumstances of death, like Bambi (1942) and various other main casts of future titles decades to emerge. In the tale of Dumbo, we get a happier take on this concept as Jumbo, our main protagonist’s elephant mother. Jumbo fairs better as she doesn't pass away but is put in jail after attacking a child, who bullies Dumbo, and she isn't liberated, until Dumbo’s talents are revered by the world.
The 1941 tale of Dumbo is by far, the strongest of pre-war films introduced to box offices. Introduction to an original story, and the response was a phenomenal grand slam. Dumbo’s tale of the small elephant with the heart as big as his ears, which was a lovely performance, that I would not change a thing. Though other films relied on interactions of dialogue with the main protagonist, Dumbo focused on capturing you with animation and responses, as well as bodily reactions to others or situations. Forwardly, I honestly appreciate that appeal and feel unlike Snow White 1939, in which Dumbo took the take in the first blue ribbon of recognition, which made previous Snow White (1939) Disney films feel second hand unlike the style of this release two years later. Though Dumbo steered more hearts and chords with a powerful message and originality it was the animation that just gave of sense of talking without any words needed.
Adherently the Walt Disney Classic of Dumbo 1941, by far animation-wise makes a huge impact by going beyond illustrations but also stand-alone storytelling aspect. The main protagonist is mute throughout the telling of this tale and acts as an important factor in telling the events of grief and tragedy through the eyes of an outcast story of poor Dumbo on a personal journey. The rendering of dynamic actions portrayed in stylistic animation of this classic tale by Disney depends on the storyboard and brilliant drive of concept reactions to establish bold character in this saga. Exhibition of this feat was the near own form acting of focus on surroundings and facial features of Dumbos reactions, or stylistic of using huge ears to hide the character's embarrassment of emotions and even the movement or reaction timing, as an audience feels watching the show, which you could say is a circus performance in itself to get a clue of Dumbo’s mindset off visual interpretation.
Multiple scenarios in the Disney Classic story illustrated with Dumbo, and comparably personal favorite character acting moments are Ratigan from the Great Mouse Detectives (1986), just how he moves you can tell this guy is sly and cannot be trusted. However, the same principle applied to Dumbo, since he doesn't talk, it's important you can get a feel for him through how he moves and acts. Dumbo is timid and curious; we see this through how he reacts to certain situations. The small protagonists also are cleverly illustrated movements of a well animal, as the curious nature of Dumbo is portrayed as multiple levels of endearment, suspense, excitement and comparable to that of an anxious child as their nose moves rapidly showing sniffing around. Dumbo in this illustration is granted the notion of new to live, (technically I guess he was born yesterday) pure simple curiosity unaware of the dangers. The unfathomed curiosity of the small child, through the eyes of the elephant’s surroundings which were cleverly depicted in the story, is easily readable from the happiness of seeing the children attending the circus to Timothy, and even clowns. Prior mentioned it’s the use of facial and well larger ears in this story that stand Dumbo out from various other protagonists as large ears help build dynamic response in this scenario. Moreover, a few chemistry bits of Timothy gives the viewers a deeper impact and figuratively a voice for Dumbo in the story, emulating their thoughts and feelings in a manner of speaking without the illusion of Dumbo needing a voice or construct of talking. He’s somber, missing his mother. His ears droop and he doesn't even look at Timothy the mouse as he washes our little heartbroken elephant. This Disney tale orchestrates ‘Actions louder than words,’ kind of ambiance in this classic tale, which honestly makes Walt Disney Classic of Dumbo just work in multiple ways.
Though multiple films of the early Walt Disney Studios' misfortunes and controversies of early decades classics were very much prevalent in 1941’s Dumbo. As the topic of Classic Animation of Dumbo, it can’t be avoided but controversies of inspiration of the supportive crow characters, Dandy (Jim) Crow, Fats, Deacon, Dopey, and Specks, and each have their unique design. Ironically with not-so-favorable stereotype inspiration for characters, it was the group-friendly crows who got their inspiration from members of African American gangs of the 1940s, as well as examples pointed out by Jim’s use of jive. However, the catalyst of debacles that separate the issue from other problematic films during these times that made the crows problematic is the voice actor for Jim Crow (yes…that is his name) is Cliff Edwards, who also voices Jiminy Cricket. Cliff Edwards was a white actor/singer, and where he might have been hired for his singing, acting skills, and history with the company; this doesn’t excuse his very over-the-top stereotypical portrayal of members of African American Community. Unfortunately, as previously mentioned in Fantasia (1940), a group of crows was later concept design was influenced by the local area of Los Angeles, California choir members upon research who voiced the other roles. Moreover, this doesn’t excuse Disney’s actions but found the tidbit research curious feature digging into the research for this Disney movie. By no means does this make their portrayal any better, but knowing Jim was played by an actor or voice concept of non-minority should be known. However, I can say Disney has done great strives to better their image and hire actors/actresses of color/sexual orientations to play characters, and comparably shows how far as a society is a good direction we have come even if its little progress to achieve someday even more fantastical approaches of accurate storytelling.
Part 2: Cultural impact
Walt Disney Studios Classic, Dumbo (1940) beyond the controversy was a brilliant whimsical film with impactful song collections and breathtaking artistic animations. Dumbo was one of the films; I had to dust off the shelf to review and had not seen for over a decade. This tender classic captured not only my heart but ample people and advent Disney phonetics alike, as this happens to be a personal favorite of my own Mother’s collection. The heartstrings showed when the song, ‘Baby Mine;’ started playing, I swear that bowl of onions wasn’t there originally, and no your crying. However, the rendition of the song did make me text my mother and give her a big hug the next time I saw her again visiting, as I recall even my older sister had a plush of the lovable Dumbo she declared, Bumbo. The amount of research into this Disney Journey and how much of an impact as a whole the movie franchises can influence your dynamic, by the littlest of things.
Gathering feedback, a notable song feature was ‘Pink Elephants on Parade;’ and the hallucination scene that old Disney scary concept revered well, while accompanied by a notable track to make your hairs stand on edge. Though the Crows are problematic, I did enjoy their designs, as well as animations of the film, while Timothy’s role felt bolder than Jimmy’s concept in Pinocchio (1940), and how he becomes a kind of father figure for Dumbo. As the impact of the animation and trippy effects of movie whimsical charm, it wasn’t without the greater impact of in my concept of fluid animations, like addressed in previous Fantasia you can see the rippled inspiration of fluidity and just smooth transitions. So my final tally of the Disney Classic Dumbo (1941), I dubbed 9 / 10 on my personnel metric scale.
Author’s Note: My apologies for this review coming out a week later than the last ones. I was having trouble writing this one. Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi all come out one right after the other, and the History is so tightly woven here that I ended up writing it all into Fantasia. I'm afraid Bambi (1942) might get the same treatment once I get to it.
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Dumbo (1941)
By The Walt Disney Company
Disney’s animated classic Dumbo (1941) is the charming yet captivating tale of a young circus performing elephant with abnormally larger-sized ears. The opening sequence is a depiction usually missed by most viewers for the time as the era is 1941, the stage performance of Circus in Florida with storks dropping off newborn babies to various circus animals. The cinematic tale focuses on the tough struggles of a small elephant apart of the circus traveling show, who is bullied by others for his unusually large-sized ears for a performing African Grey Elephant. However, the other stage performing elephants part of the circus bully and belittle, as well as being cruel to the smallest new addition to the elephants. Luckily, the main elephant protagonist had his mother’s love and affection to protect her little one. Unfortunately, the circumstances of the main small elephant protagonist's journey are steered into a lonely journey, as the pair are separated and the mother of the main character is forced out of Dumbo’s life, and in turn, like so many in a life forced to grow up fast in a performing circus. The elephant is forced to endure the backdrop of abuse and lonely existence without his mother there to shield him from the horrors, as the realization of his parents' love fanes the hardships of reality.
Through the hardships of struggles and endurance of Dumbo’s journey, our large ear mascot meets and Befriending a mouse named Timothy who stands in as Dumbo’s parent, our little pachyderm sets out to prove himself in the circus. However, unlike the circumstances of Jimmy Cricket's symbiotic kinship of the mouse and elephant turns into nose dive of unwelcome circumstances and incident involves hints of depression and sadness from failing to impress the circus with his performance being swept up from them, by his large ears that results in Timothy and Dumbo getting into trouble by exhibiting characteristics of being drunk and finding themselves in a tree of all places. The opening scenes are met with a cast of a flock of crows, who aspire Dumbo, which was revealed by the next cinematic entrance of a group of avian crow characters Dandy “Jim” Crow, Fats, Deacon, Dopey, and Specks as needed authority figures main big-eared elephant needed to grow as a character, as exploits of Dumbo found to give him purpose. The exploits of the small elephants' accomplishments were recognized by the next supporting cast of friendly crows who help Dumbo to spread his wings ‘figuratively,’ spiritually, or morally, and using his own larger ears to find he was special all along and to find his mother to reunite. The classic Disney movie gives us the premise of the dark tale, or a lost elephant of turmoil, and allows the elephant to soar into our hearts with the major exploit of zero to hero by the end of the movie to tug on your heartstrings.
Part 1: The Review
The Walt Disney Company of 1941 struck gold by creating this hundred percent original story, with a little budget that soared at theater box offices outdoing the past two failures of Disney Studios of 1940s releases of Pinocchio and Fantasia. The animated story of Dumbo (1941) was the fourth animated film released, that captures the enduring moments of a mother & child, and dealing with the loss and heartache of parents' love and admiration, as well as how to deal with that grief in a way. As this year Walt Disney himself was struck by the chords of tragedy with the loss of his own mother, Flora Call Disney in 1938. Shortly two years before the subsequent failures of both Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940. Moreover, the creator himself blamed his circumstances of the bombing of the performance of a movie on his mother’s death, while harboring self-hatred because of the loss of his solid foundation as his mother. The Disney Classic Dumbo (1941) and eventually Bambi (1942) are core examples of the symbiotic parent or guardian role of the main protagonist. Unlike, the sad spun circumstances of Walt Disney’s own life, Dumbo figuratively had a less tragic circumstance that was about loss of aspect of separation, rather than circumstances of death, like Bambi (1942) and various other main casts of future titles decades to emerge. In the tale of Dumbo, we get a happier take on this concept as Jumbo, our main protagonist’s elephant mother. Jumbo fairs better as she doesn't pass away but is put in jail after attacking a child, who bullies Dumbo, and she isn't liberated, until Dumbo’s talents are revered by the world.
The 1941 tale of Dumbo is by far, the strongest of pre-war films introduced to box offices. Introduction to an original story, and the response was a phenomenal grand slam. Dumbo’s tale of the small elephant with the heart as big as his ears, which was a lovely performance, that I would not change a thing. Though other films relied on interactions of dialogue with the main protagonist, Dumbo focused on capturing you with animation and responses, as well as bodily reactions to others or situations. Forwardly, I honestly appreciate that appeal and feel unlike Snow White 1939, in which Dumbo took the take in the first blue ribbon of recognition, which made previous Snow White (1939) Disney films feel second hand unlike the style of this release two years later. Though Dumbo steered more hearts and chords with a powerful message and originality it was the animation that just gave of sense of talking without any words needed.
Adherently the Walt Disney Classic of Dumbo 1941, by far animation-wise makes a huge impact by going beyond illustrations but also stand-alone storytelling aspect. The main protagonist is mute throughout the telling of this tale and acts as an important factor in telling the events of grief and tragedy through the eyes of an outcast story of poor Dumbo on a personal journey. The rendering of dynamic actions portrayed in stylistic animation of this classic tale by Disney depends on the storyboard and brilliant drive of concept reactions to establish bold character in this saga. Exhibition of this feat was the near own form acting of focus on surroundings and facial features of Dumbos reactions, or stylistic of using huge ears to hide the character's embarrassment of emotions and even the movement or reaction timing, as an audience feels watching the show, which you could say is a circus performance in itself to get a clue of Dumbo’s mindset off visual interpretation.
Multiple scenarios in the Disney Classic story illustrated with Dumbo, and comparably personal favorite character acting moments are Ratigan from the Great Mouse Detectives (1986), just how he moves you can tell this guy is sly and cannot be trusted. However, the same principle applied to Dumbo, since he doesn't talk, it's important you can get a feel for him through how he moves and acts. Dumbo is timid and curious; we see this through how he reacts to certain situations. The small protagonists also are cleverly illustrated movements of a well animal, as the curious nature of Dumbo is portrayed as multiple levels of endearment, suspense, excitement and comparable to that of an anxious child as their nose moves rapidly showing sniffing around. Dumbo in this illustration is granted the notion of new to live, (technically I guess he was born yesterday) pure simple curiosity unaware of the dangers. The unfathomed curiosity of the small child, through the eyes of the elephant’s surroundings which were cleverly depicted in the story, is easily readable from the happiness of seeing the children attending the circus to Timothy, and even clowns. Prior mentioned it’s the use of facial and well larger ears in this story that stand Dumbo out from various other protagonists as large ears help build dynamic response in this scenario. Moreover, a few chemistry bits of Timothy gives the viewers a deeper impact and figuratively a voice for Dumbo in the story, emulating their thoughts and feelings in a manner of speaking without the illusion of Dumbo needing a voice or construct of talking. He’s somber, missing his mother. His ears droop and he doesn't even look at Timothy the mouse as he washes our little heartbroken elephant. This Disney tale orchestrates ‘Actions louder than words,’ kind of ambiance in this classic tale, which honestly makes Walt Disney Classic of Dumbo just work in multiple ways.
Though multiple films of the early Walt Disney Studios' misfortunes and controversies of early decades classics were very much prevalent in 1941’s Dumbo. As the topic of Classic Animation of Dumbo, it can’t be avoided but controversies of inspiration of the supportive crow characters, Dandy (Jim) Crow, Fats, Deacon, Dopey, and Specks, and each have their unique design. Ironically with not-so-favorable stereotype inspiration for characters, it was the group-friendly crows who got their inspiration from members of African American gangs of the 1940s, as well as examples pointed out by Jim’s use of jive. However, the catalyst of debacles that separate the issue from other problematic films during these times that made the crows problematic is the voice actor for Jim Crow (yes…that is his name) is Cliff Edwards, who also voices Jiminy Cricket. Cliff Edwards was a white actor/singer, and where he might have been hired for his singing, acting skills, and history with the company; this doesn’t excuse his very over-the-top stereotypical portrayal of members of African American Community. Unfortunately, as previously mentioned in Fantasia (1940), a group of crows was later concept design was influenced by the local area of Los Angeles, California choir members upon research who voiced the other roles. Moreover, this doesn’t excuse Disney’s actions but found the tidbit research curious feature digging into the research for this Disney movie. By no means does this make their portrayal any better, but knowing Jim was played by an actor or voice concept of non-minority should be known. However, I can say Disney has done great strives to better their image and hire actors/actresses of color/sexual orientations to play characters, and comparably shows how far as a society is a good direction we have come even if its little progress to achieve someday even more fantastical approaches of accurate storytelling.
Part 2: Cultural impact
Walt Disney Studios Classic, Dumbo (1940) beyond the controversy was a brilliant whimsical film with impactful song collections and breathtaking artistic animations. Dumbo was one of the films; I had to dust off the shelf to review and had not seen for over a decade. This tender classic captured not only my heart but ample people and advent Disney phonetics alike, as this happens to be a personal favorite of my own Mother’s collection. The heartstrings showed when the song, ‘Baby Mine;’ started playing, I swear that bowl of onions wasn’t there originally, and no your crying. However, the rendition of the song did make me text my mother and give her a big hug the next time I saw her again visiting, as I recall even my older sister had a plush of the lovable Dumbo she declared, Bumbo. The amount of research into this Disney Journey and how much of an impact as a whole the movie franchises can influence your dynamic, by the littlest of things.
Gathering feedback, a notable song feature was ‘Pink Elephants on Parade;’ and the hallucination scene that old Disney scary concept revered well, while accompanied by a notable track to make your hairs stand on edge. Though the Crows are problematic, I did enjoy their designs, as well as animations of the film, while Timothy’s role felt bolder than Jimmy’s concept in Pinocchio (1940), and how he becomes a kind of father figure for Dumbo. As the impact of the animation and trippy effects of movie whimsical charm, it wasn’t without the greater impact of in my concept of fluid animations, like addressed in previous Fantasia you can see the rippled inspiration of fluidity and just smooth transitions. So my final tally of the Disney Classic Dumbo (1941), I dubbed 9 / 10 on my personnel metric scale.
Author’s Note: My apologies for this review coming out a week later than the last ones. I was having trouble writing this one. Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi all come out one right after the other, and the History is so tightly woven here that I ended up writing it all into Fantasia. I'm afraid Bambi (1942) might get the same treatment once I get to it.
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