Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book"). The main character is Jumbo Jr., an elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo", as in "dumb". 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.
Made to recoup the financial losses of both Pinocchio and Fantasia, Dumbo was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studios. At 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features. Sound was recorded conventionally using the RCA System. One voice was synthesized using the Sonovox system, but it, too, was recorded using the RCA System.
Dumbo was released on October 23, 1941, where it was met with generally favorable reviews. It has since been considered to be among the greatest animated films of all time. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".
A live-action adaptation of the film directed by Tim Burton was released on March 29, 2019.
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- Disney Big Junk Crash
- Disney - Blabbering (Used for Timothy when he scares the elephants.)
- Disney - CASEY JUNIOR WHISTLE
- Disney Castle Thunder
- Disney Crowd Cheering Sound
- Disney Crowd Laughing Sound (Heard in a low volume.)
- Disney Crowd Screaming Sound
- Disney Cymbal Crash Sound
- Disney Gulp Sound 2 (Heard twice, one from Dumbo when he swallows the drink before getting drunk, and another from Timothy when he realizes that he and Dumbo are up in the tree.)
- Disney "Oof" Sound
- Disney - Rocking Chair (Heard when the mother kangaroo while sleeping with her joey rocks on her feet like a rocking chair during "Baby Mine".)
- Disney - SIREN WHISTLE ZING 01
- Disney Slow Thunder Clap And Rumble
- Disney Tarzan Yell Sound (Used for the gorilla on the parade.)
- Disney - Train Whistle
- Disney - WOOD BREAK (Debut?)
- Dumbo Hiccup (debut)
- Dumbo Trumpet (debut)
- Dwarfs Snoring (Used for Dumbo and Timothy sleeping on the tree.)
- Ferocious Roar
- Freesound, G12-44-Elephants and Tigers.wav/Sound Ideas, CARTOON, ELEPHANT - ELEPHANT TRUMPETING (Used for Mrs. Jumbo when she gets extremely furious.)
- Gossiping Elephants Screaming
- Hollywoodedge, Cymbal Crash BoingQ CRT016405/Sound Ideas, COMEDY - BOING 04
- Hollywoodedge, Elephant TrumpetsT CRT012901 (1st trumpet heard quadrice, 2nd trumpet heard thrice.)
- Hollywoodedge, High Pitched Squeak CRT049302
- Hollywoodedge, Impact Wcymbal Drum CRT032501
- Low Trumpeting (Heard twice.)
- Mickey Mouse Cough (Used for Timothy after Jim Crow blows his cigar smoke on him.)
- OLD STEAM LOCOMOTIVE WHISTLE
- OLD STEAM TRAIN WHISTLE PASS BY
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - KABLAM,
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - THUNDER CLAP AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 01 (H-B)
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - THUNDER ROLL AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 02 (Intl.)
- Sound Ideas, TRAIN, CARTOON - CRASHY TRAIN STOP, 01