Rediscover the incredible story of the famous flying elephant with this vintage-style Disney Dumbo Poster!
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Description of this Disney Dumbo Poster
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Disney’s fourth full-length animated film, it is based on the story written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a toy (“Roll-a-Book”).[4][5] The main character is Jumbo Jr., an elephant who is cruelly nicknamed “Dumbo,” as in “dumb.” He is ridiculed for his large ears, but is actually able to fly using his ears as wings. For most of the film, his only real friend, aside from his mother, is Timothy the mouse—a relationship parodying the stereotypical animosity between mice and elephants.
Made to make up for the financial losses of Pinocchio and Fantasia, Dumbo is a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studios. At 64 minutes, it is one of Disney’s shortest animated films. The sound was recorded conventionally with the RCA system. A voice was synthesized using the Sonovox system, but it was also recorded with the RCA system.
Dumbo was released on October 23, 1941, to generally favorable reviews,[6] but was also criticized for its racist stereotypes of Black people. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, as it is “culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant.”[7]
A live-action adaptation of the film directed by Tim Burton was released on March 29, 2019, although it was neither critically nor commercially successful.
While a large circus spends the off-season in the “Winter Grounds” in Florida, a flock of white storks delivers babies to the animals. An elephant, Mrs. Jumbo, does not receive her baby and continues to scan the sky. The circus sets off on another tour, and a late stork catches up with the moving train and drops off the expected baby elephant, Jumbo Junior. The other elephants are initially delighted, until they notice the baby has oversized ears and quickly nickname him “Dumbo.” However, Mrs. Jumbo shows her baby a lot of attention and love, defending him from the other elephants’ teasing.
Dumbo, clumsy because of his ears, is turned into a circus attraction. When some unruly boys start roughing up Dumbo and his ears, Mrs. Jumbo spanks their leader and throws bales of hay at them. The circus staff remove Dumbo from the pen, and Mrs. Jumbo flies into a rage, eventually dousing the ringmaster in a tub of water. She is then deemed insane and locked in a cage. Dumbo is blamed for the incident, and the other elephants avoid him.
Timothy, a mouse who travels with the circus, befriends Dumbo after he scares the other elephants and decides to make him a star. He whispers into the ringmaster’s ear while the latter sleeps and convinces him to try a new stunt with Dumbo atop an elephant pyramid. But Dumbo trips on his ears during the show and knocks the pyramid over, injuring the other elephants and causing the big top to collapse. After this, the other elephants exile Dumbo altogether, and he is incorporated into the clowns’ firefighter act, regularly jumping from a “burning building” prop into a vat of pie dough. Despite his newfound popularity, he hates his job and becomes depressed.
Timothy decides to take Dumbo to see Mrs. Jumbo, but they can’t see each other’s faces and can only intertwine their trunks. Meanwhile, the clowns decide to increase the popularity of their firefighter act by dangerously raising the platform from which Dumbo jumps. To celebrate this plan, they drink champagne, a bottle of which falls into a vat of water. Dumbo, crying after visiting his mother, develops hiccups. So Timothy takes him to get water from the vat. The two become drunk and hallucinate pink elephants.
Dumbo and Timothy are later discovered asleep high in a tree by Dandy Crow and his friends. After initially mocking Timothy’s claim that Dumbo flew with his ears when he was drunk, the crows are soon moved by Dumbo’s sad story. They decide to help Timothy by giving him a “magic feather” to help Dumbo fly. Holding the feather, Dumbo flies away a second time, and he and Timothy return to the circus with the intention of surprising 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 Dumbo successfully flies under the big top, much to the delight of the audience, and throws peanuts at the other elephants in revenge. Dumbo gains fame and fortune, Timothy becomes his new manager and signs him to a Hollywood contract, and Mrs. Jumbo is released. She and Dumbo are given a private carriage on the train, and the crows greet the departing elephants.