Dumbo

Dumbo (1941)

Timing: 1:4 (64 min)

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All about film

Video 6

Photo 104

Actors and characters

Release date

1941-10-31

Country

United States

Production

Walt Disney Productions

Genre

Animation, Family

Budget

$812 000

Revenue

$1 600 000

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Director

Samuel Armstrong, Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Roberts, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney

Actors

Edward Brophy, Margaret Wright, Verna Felton, Sarah Selby, Noreen Gammill, Dorothy Scott, Herman Bing, Cliff Edwards, Jim Carmichael, Nick Stewart
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Walt Disney

Operator

Composer

Frank Churchill

Artist

Audition

Editing

All team (21)

• Initially, Walt Disney Studios did not want to make this cartoon. Joe Grant and Dick Huemer left a piece of the script on Disney's desk every morning until he finally gave in and ran to the screenwriters with the words: "Great! What happens next?"
• "Dumbo" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) are the only classic Walt Disney animated films where the backgrounds were painted in watercolor. This was a cheaper material than oil and gouache, which were used in the films "Pinocchio" (1940) and "Bambi" (1942). Watercolor would not be used again until the work on "Fantasia 2000" (1999).
• Live elephants were once brought to the studio grounds to allow the animators to study their movements.
• Very few of the celluloid frame blanks for the animated film have survived. Once a scene was completed, the animators spread them out on the floor in the studio corridor and rolled around on them. This is how many celluloid blanks were destroyed.
• Initially, Walt Disney Studios did not want to make this cartoon. Joe Grant and Dick Huemer left a piece of the script on Disney’s desk every morning until, finally, he gave in and ran to the screenwriters with the words: “Great! What happens next?”
• "Dumbo" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) are the only classic Walt Disney animated films where the backgrounds are painted in watercolor. This was a cheaper material than oil and gouache, which were used in the films "Pinocchio" (1940) and "Bambi" (1942). Watercolor would not be used again until the work on "Fantasia 2000" (1999).