Dumbo (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Ben Sharpsteen

Escritores:

Helen Aberson (book) &
Harold Pearl (book) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 octubre 1941 (USA)

Género:

Animación | Familia | Música

Frase comercial:

Walt Disney's Latest . . . Most Lovable . . . Funable Characters !

Plot:

Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.

Plot Keywords:

Elephant | Circus | Mouse | Ear | Stork

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Short and sweet.

Reparto

James Baskett	...	Crow (voice) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Herman Bing	...	The Ringmaster (voice) (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher	...	Clown (voice) (uncredited)
Edward Brophy	...	Timothy Q. Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Jim Carmichael	...	Crow (voice) (uncredited)
Cliff Edwards	...	Jim Crow (voice) (uncredited)
Verna Felton	...	The Elephant Matriarch / Mrs. Jumbo (voice) (uncredited)
Noreen Gammill	...	Catty the Elephant (voice) (uncredited)
Eddie Holden	...	Clown (voice) (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway	...	Mr. Stork (voice) (uncredited)
Malcolm Hutton	...	Skinny (voice) (uncredited)
Harold Manley	...	Boy (voice) (uncredited)
John McLeish	...	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Tony Neil	...	Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Noyes	...	Singer (voice) (uncredited)
Dorothy Scott	...	Giddy the Elephant (voice) (uncredited)
Sarah Selby	...	Prissy the Elephant (voice) (uncredited)
Billy Sheets	...	Clown / Joe (voice) (uncredited)
Nick Stewart	...	Crow (voice) (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Chuck Stubbs	...	Boy (voice) (uncredited)
Margaret Wright	...	Casey Jr. (voice) (uncredited)

También conocida como:

Dumbo the Flying Elephant (USA) (working title)
Walt Disney's Dumbo (USA) (poster title)
Dumbo (Argentina) (Peru) [es]

Duración:

64 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | South Korea:Todo | Portugal:M/4 | USA:Approved (certificate #6809) (original rating) | USA:G (re-rating) (1972) | Peru:PT | New Zealand:G | Argentina:Atp | Canada:G | Chile:TE | Denmark:A | Finland:S | Germany:o.Al. (cut) | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | Australia:G

Compañía:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivialidades:

The shadow that Timothy Mouse casts on the ringmaster shortly before he turns himself into a ghost is taken from that of the vampire from _Nosferatu (1922)_.

Errores:

Continuidad: In the very last scene when Dumbo's mother is on the caboose of the train, her hat has a wavy band in one shot and none in the next.

Citas:

[first lines]
Narrator: Through the snow, and sleet, and hail / Through the blizzard, through the gale / Through the wind and through the rain / Over mountain, over plain / Through the blinding lightning flash / And the mighty thunder crash / Ever faithful, ever true / Nothing stops him, he'll get through.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The Making of '20000 Leagues Under the Sea' (2003) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

Casey Junior

Short and sweet.

All the other elephants shun Dumbo for his gigantic ears, and his mother has been locked up for protecting him, so he's all alone in the world... until Timothy Q Mouse shows up.

A beautiful piece of work. At just 60 mins, it is short and sweet. But it also contains some of Disney's best visual poetry. Dumbo's not saying a single word means his entire character is created through the physical. The entire opening sequence, till the gossipy elephants start talking, plays out without words, and its like the best silent movies. Simply beautiful.

Mrs Jumbo rearing up and destroying the big top to protect Dumbo from taunting kids is an incredible scene. Dumbo's mother spends the movie imprisoned in a carriage labelled "mad elephant" - and surely one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking scenes i've ever seen plays out when Dumbo and his mother have contact only by touching trunks, through the bars in the window of her cell. A beautiful sequence begins: the beautiful song "Baby Mine" plays as she cradles him in her trunk, and when Dumbo leaves she can't see him, and she stretches her trunk as far as she can out the window to try and reach him, and... oh, its too much!

The pink elephants sequence is as close to trippy Disney ever got - and its brilliant. One of the best, most inventive sequences in animation history. Great song, too.

Some terrific songs: Look Out for Mr Stork, Casey Junior (the train song), Pink Elephants, When I see an elephant fly and Baby Mine.

10/10. Timothy Q Mouse is a great character, the animation is so concise and perfect, great songs, the message that if you believe you can overcome your handicaps you will so inspiring and beautiful, and the movie so short and sweet it will forever retain its appeal.