Dumbo

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures in the Sonovox sound format.
Dumbo, the fourth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book"). The main character is Jumbo Jr., a semi-anthropomorphic elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo". He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using his ears as wings. 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.
Dumbo was made to recoup the financial losses of Fantasia. It was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studio, and at 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features.

Dumbo
Original 1941 release poster
Directed by	Ben Sharpsteen
Produced by	Walt Disney
Story by	Otto Englander Joe Grant Dick Huemer
Based on	Dumbo by Helen Aberson
Narrated by	John McLeish
Starring	Edward Brophy Herman Bing Margaret Wright Sterling Holloway Cliff Edwards
Music by	Frank Churchill Oliver Wallace
Studio(s)	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s)	October 23, 1941
Running time	64 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$950,000
Box office	$1.6 million

Cast

Like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, all the cast are uncredited for their roles in the film.^[4]

• The title character is Dumbo, the nickname given to Jumbo Jr. 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. Like Dopey in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Gideon in Pinocchio, Dumbo does not have any spoken dialogue.
• Edward Brophy as Timothy Q. Mouse, an anthropomorphic mouse who becomes the only friend of Dumbo and his mother Mrs. Jumbo. He teaches Dumbo how to become the "ninth wonder of the universe", and the only flying elephant in the whole world. He is never mentioned by name in the film, but his signature can be read on the contract in a newspaper photograph at the finale.
• Verna Felton as Mrs. Jumbo, Dumbo's mother, who speaks only once to call Dumbo by his given name, "Jumbo, Jr."
  • Felton also voiced the Elephant Matriarch, the female leader of the circus elephants.
• Herman Bing as The Ringmaster, who though not truly evil is a strict and occasionally arrogant man. The Ringmaster later appears as a villain in the video game Disney's Villains' Revenge.
• Margaret Wright as Casey Junior, the sentient tender engine hauling the circus train. Casey Junior has a 2-4-0 wheel arrangement, a small four-wheeled tender at the back, a big tall funnel, a little lamp hat, a short stumpy boiler, a short stumpy dome with a whistle on the top and a small cowcatcher at his front.
• Sterling Holloway as Mr. Stork
• Cliff Edwards as Jim Crow
• The Hall Johnson Choir as Crow Chorus
• Noreen Gammill as Elephant Catty
• Dorothy Scott as Elephant Giddy
• Sarah Selby as Elephant Prissy
• Malcolm Hutton as Skinny
• John McLeish as the narrator