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Genres:
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Animation /
Family /
Music /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Ben Sharpsteen
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Actors:
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Edward Brophy,
Verna Felton,
Cliff Edwards,
Eddie Holden,
James Baskett,
Herman Bing,
Jim Carmichael,
Noreen Gammill,
Billy Bletcher,
Hall Johnson Choir
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Duration:
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64 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)122
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Plot Summary:
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The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs King-sized, old hand of the circus, but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly huge ears and dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts; it is up to his only concubine, a mouse, to support Dumbo to achieve his quite imminent.
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Dumbo
By 1941 Disney was well into its golden time, an era characterised sooner than Fantasia's envelope-pushing excitement and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs' stately mingling of folklore and melodrama. No matter how it's Dumbo - overlooked and understated - that remains the undisputed masterpiece. It's short, sweet, elegantly ebullient and features some of Disney's most vivid characters. Steersman Ben Sharpsteen (chief allowing for regarding Pinocchio and segments of Fantasia) tells the tale with such tenderness and repartee you'd a sentiment of flint not to be moved. It opens with a weary stork struggling to deliver Jumbo Jr to his mother at the circus. She's thrilled to obtain him, but when Jumbo unfurls his talented, flapping ears he's nicknamed Dumbo by a co...
Dumbo
Although it was directed by Ben Sharpsteen, every frame of this Disney tale close to the outcast elephant with whopping ears was personally approved by Uncle Walt himself. The film won an Oscar for the sake of its score, with songs such as When I See an Elephant Fly and Baby of Mine (from the heartbreaking -child reunion) lingering big in the recollection. On the animation side, the highlight is the parade of pink elephants after Dumbo and Timothy Mouse manage tipsy. Made in behalf of a fraction of the cost of preceding Disney animations, this may be united of the studio's shortest features, but it's also among the best.
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