The main character is Jumbo Jr., an elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo", as in "dumb". He is ridiculed for his oversized ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using his ears as wings.
Dumbo's actual name Is Jumbo Jr. (Continuing the trend of “characters who rarely speak,” we know this is Dumbo's real name because it is the only line in the film uttered by Dumbo's mother, Mrs. Jumbo!).
Dumbo's real name is Jumbo, Jr. He is given the nickname Dumbo by one of the other elephants. Dumbo is the only title character in both the animated and live-action movies who does not speak (not counting many live-action title characters who are animals).
Dumbo is one of Disney's early animated classics. Its themes of bullying, prejudice and discrimination are as relevant now as they were in the 1940s. But it's often sad and also contains outdated racial stereotypes. It could be good to talk through these issues with your children.
When one of the circus employees takes her son away from her and the Ringmaster whips her again, she trumpets in pain, grabs him with her trunk, and throws him in her drinking tub. She is then locked up in solitary confinement. After Dumbo becomes a clown in the circus, his friend, Timothy Q.
Although the entire film is filled with uncomfortably sad moments — including when they dress Dumbo up in clown makeup and forced him to humiliate himself in front of the crowds — the most heart-wrenching scene occurs when the titular character visits his mother, Jumbo, after she's been locked in a carriage that's ...
"Pink Elephants on Parade" is a song and scene from the 1941 Disney animated feature film Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse, having accidentally become intoxicated (through drinking water spiked with champagne), see pink elephants sing, dance, and play musical instruments during a hallucination sequence.
After being laughed at and ridiculed for his freak-show appearance, Dumbo is separated from his mother. With Dumbo's mom gone, a struggling group of circus performers watch over him and teach him to use his ears to fly. Dumbo hopes that if he can fly, he can find a way back to his mom.
Dumbo, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, is one of Brooklyn's most visited neighborhoods, attracting visitors with its cobblestone streets, dramatic architecture, great dining and dreamy views across the river.
It is believed that the story of Dumbo is loosely based on the real life elephant Jumbo, a male African Bush elephant born in Sudan in 1860. After his mother was killed by poachers he was captured and sold to Lorenzo Casanova, an Italian animal dealer and explorer.
At the end of the animated movie, Dumbo stays in the circus and gets his mom bailed out of elephant jail and into a private train cart. But in the end of the newer movie, Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo are released back into the wild and free from the circus tent flaps.
Plot. The film takes place in a circus in Florida, in present-day of March 1941, and starts with a formation of storks delivering newborn babies to various circus animals. Mrs.
Dumbo was released on October 23, 1941, where it was met with critical acclaim for its story, humor, visuals, and music. The film was later criticized for racist stereotyping of black people. Its accolades include an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
At first glance, Disney's Dumbo may not be though of as a film that portrays disability, but its protagonist Dumbo has a deformity-- extra large ears. In the film, the baby elephant is ostracized. He is not allowed to participate in the circus and is seen as an outcast amongst his peers.
“Early on, I made the decision in the spirit of realism and because Dumbo never talks in the animated [version], Jumbo has a line or two, and they're really the core of our story,” Kruger told the outlet. “We were going to not have this be a talking animal picture.
The original includes a sequence in which Dumbo accidentally drinks champagne. While drunk, he hallucinates a number of pink elephants marching and singing a psychedelic tune.
A well-known reference to pink elephants occurs in the 1941 Disney animated film Dumbo. In a segment known as "Pink Elephants on Parade", after taking a drink of water from a bucket spiked with champagne, Dumbo and Timothy begin to hallucinate singing and dancing elephants.
The elephant toured with the Barnum & Bailey Circus for the next several years, traveling on a specially constructed rail car that was large enough to hold him. In 1885, Jumbo was killed by an oncoming train in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
As a result, Dumbo and Timothy both become drunk, and see hallucinations of pink elephants. The true tragedy is that this scene was not recreated in the live action.
Dumbo gains fame and fortune, Timothy becomes his new manager and signs him to a Hollywood contract, and Mrs. Jumbo is freed. She and Dumbo are given a private coach on the train, and the crows wave goodbye to the elephants as they travel away.
Smitty is among the children attending the circus, as well as the leader of a young group of mischievous boys. When they see Dumbo, they immediately begin laughing at him due to his abnormally large ears. Smitty first mocks the elephant by holding up his jacket in imitation of Dumbo's ears.
