The scene where his mom comforts him and sings to him from the inside the cage with her only being able to touch him with her trunk makes me cry everytime I see it I'm so glad she got a happy ending
Yeah. It is relatable to kids who may have been separated from their parents or if one of their parents was in jail. Not many movies touch on that part. Though also touches on animal cruelty. I was adopted so it hits me the more the times I watch it. First time I did not cry but the more often you see it the harder it gets. 😞🙂
Back in the day, they used to tell children that babies came from a stork, rather than tell them where they actually came from. A stork would fly in and drop off their babies. So, that’s what the opening scene was depicting 🙂
The stork being late probably depicting she gived birth late, and her not getting her baby like the other animals depicting she had probably a miscarriage
Love this movie. A classic. Fun Fact: The lullaby "Baby Mine" from this film has become one of Disney's best remembered and regarded songs. It has been covered by several artists over the years, often with commercial success. The American Film Institute has included it in its list of nominees for 100 best film songs.
As much as I love Dumbo, Timothy is probably my favorite character in this movie. He owed Dumbo nothing, hadn’t shared a single word with him, and all he knew was what he had heard from gossip. However, he saw that Dumbo was alone and took it upon himself to be his friend, caretaker, and manager doing whatever he could to get him to the top. Everyone needs a friend like him.
I also thought it was sweet how he looked at Dumbo's ears and instead of laughing at or ostracizing him, he said "I don't see anything wrong with them. I think they're cute." He didn't just befriend Dumbo because he was lonely - he genuinely didn't see any reason for him to be treated so badly.
Because he's the only one who genuinely saw only a child and the cruelness the child is facing without his mother. I guess Tim understand because he too had been through such situation.
The pink elephants sequence remains one of the most influential moments in animation. Voice actors Thurl Ravenscroft (who would sing the Grinch song over 25 years later) and Looney Tunes voice actor Mel Blanc all lend their voices to that sequence Which wasn't his first time recording lines for Disney. He had previously voiced Gideon The Cat in Pinocchio, only to have all his lines cut when they made Gideon a mute character.
Thurl Ravenscroft was perhaps better known for his many years voicing Tony the Tiger for Kellogg's. He was grrrrrrrreat! (and had a wonderful name to namedrop)
I can't be the only one who was low-key traumatized by the pink elephants? I kinda liked it but some of really scared me, like the big one stepping on the small one.. or the tall elephant zapping its short partner with the lightning. It's definitely trippy 😂
IMO Dumbo is both one of the most endearing Disney movies but also one of the weirdest and sometimes most depressing because of how cruel the world around him is. The ending is such a relief after all that’s happened
Some people felt like the crows were too stereotypically offensive. Personally, I'm a black man and I was never bothered by it growing up. In fact, I love the song "When I See An Elephant Fly" though I do understand some of the controversy.
People find the Roustabouts Song offensive too, but I'm convinced that it's commentary. I know people will say that I'm giving the writers of the time too much credit, which is possible, but just the way it's written doesn't come off to me as something someone would say if they actually believed it. It's actually my favorite song in the movie (close to Pink Elephants).
@@videohistory722 Yeah true but thankfully most actual racists are pretty blatant so it's easy to call them out. If black people are offended by these birds fair enough but if they aren't they shouldn't be told they are wrong.
This is actually one of my favorite classic Disney movies. I've always had a soft spot for Dumbo. His Mom's lullaby (Baby Mine) makes me cry every time.
the scene where Dumbo first got separated from his mom, he is rocking side to side, that's actually what happens to abused caged animals... I'm glad I don't really remember much of this film when I watched it as a kid because its traumatizing to see it now as an adult knowing that was really happening to circus animals...
I only remember glimpse of it in childhood and I'm glad I don't remember most of cause even as a kid this movie felt traumatic. I've finally seen it now as an adult and can't stop bawling my eyes out. Disney sure were dark at this point, I kinda miss it in modern movies.
This was Disney's 4th animated feature. The last one to be completed before WWII. Then they managed to finish Bambi before doing a series of package films to avoid bankruptcy and compensate for the animators who were drafted into the army. To anyone who is unaware of the historical context, these six package films, from "Saludos Amigos," to "The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad," might look out of place if you watch them today.
I watched every one of those packaged films and none of them feel out of place. World War II was a problem for the studio and the US Army occupied the lot for the animators who remained to make propaganda animated films for them and to use as a training ground. This did not sit well with Walt.
Hey Nick! Great video! You may not have known, which is perfectly fine, but storks are often depicted bringing babies to people (or in this case animals). It's something parents would say to kids when they ask "where do babies come from?" "The storks bring the babies!"
When I was younger, I actually learned where babies come from from reading about the human body, so I assumed the stork thing was an allegory for adoption, and I thought it was original to _Dumbo_ . Why adoption, you might ask? Well, because the babies didn't come out of their mothers. To quote Vicky Pollard from _Little Britain_ , "It was one of those you where you don't even know you're pregnant till it comes out. They had to sign the paper - it was well graphic!"
@@nickflix8657 please do a movie reaction one of my favorite live action disney movies its from 1968 it stars dean Jones michelle Lee buddy Hackett from its a mad mad mad world they are all amazing awesome old fashioned wonderful actors from the old days its called the love bug
Also, as about the pink elephants... there is a saying "to get drunk till pink elephants / little devils", which means hallucinating after getting drunk. (There's also a saying "dead bees don't buzz, and if they do, they do it very very quietly" which means someone is so drunk that they can't even talk. A funny thing, those sayings)
"Even though they're old, I find the animation amazing." Kid, the 1940s were Disney Studios at the height of their technique. Zillions of artists making bazillions of hand-painted cels, led by artists who felt limited only by their imaginations in what they could put on the screen. And this film is even more fanciful than the other Disney offerings of that era (while being less 'painterly' than, say, Pinocchio). Don't fall for chronological snobbery.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s first animated feature film. I believe Dumbo was their 4th. I’d highly recommend watching Fantasia if you want a truly different Disney animated film.
Mr. Stork was voiced by the lovable Sterling Holloway, who was also the voice for Roquefort from The Aristocats, the Cheshire Cat from Alice In Wonderland, Kaa from The Jungle Book, and his most famous role, Winnie The Pooh!
Me too! My father left us when I was 5. So all my sister and I had was our mom. She worked 2 jobs to take care of us. I would put myself in the place of characters like Dumbo and Bambi wondering how I would feel if I had lost my mom. I would cry and cry at the thought. My mom would hold me close during the sad scenes and assure me that she is still here. I'm lucky to still have my mom.
I never thought of this before, but seeing how high they were gonna make Dumbo jump at the end there 35:45, he definitely wouldn't have survived that. The humans said he was basically "rubber" and didn't have feelings. If Dumbo hadn't learned to fly he would've died right there.
Actually someone told me there's a theory that Dumbo actually died in the pink elephant song because of weakness and alcohol. This following sequence of his discovering his gift, surviving the fall and becoming famous is either the last dream of his or his mother's.
@@Tooba-K123 that's a stupid theory, actually haha "Oh it would be more realistic" sure, but since the beginning we have animals talking, elephants being proud, the stork bringing babies to everyone, an elephant that can control his ears like he does his arms... The pink elephants ARE creepy, but I think it serves the purpose of saying "don't drink kids" and also to add shock value to when they learn that Dumbo can fly (instead of him simply flying, it's cooler to have them wake up in a tree all confused)
@@erikperhs_ honestly I think both theories are fine. Good thing it's just a "theory" and not something that happened in the movie which served as a great purpose of serving as "your weakness can also be your strength". However those who prefer a realistic part can consist the dark theory to be true too. I'm okay with both but damn I can never imagine a cutie like Jumbo to have that fate, even the thought itself scares me for an fictional character on top of that.
Even as a kid you could tell very early (like 10:35) that something's wrong.. using the animals to build the circus is wrong. Keeping animals for the sake of entertainment is wrong. Keeping them in cages is wrong.
My grandmother LOVED elephants. She took care of me ever since I was a newborn and this and her watching with me saw the value in an animal's feelings and also how much a mom loves her baby. My grandmother passed away at 74 years old and the "Baby Mine" scene makes me think back on the love she gave me as a child. Absolutely wonderful movie 😭❤❤🥺
No matter what advances have been made since then, the early Disney cartoon features remain the most exquisitely beautiful and technically impressive ones ever made.
19:15 the matriarch elephant and Mrs Jumbo are both voiced by Verna Felton. For a fact that Disney used her warmful voice throughout her career at Disney and her job comes to full circle who voiced another matriarch elephant as Winifred from the Jungle Book.
Let's not kid ourselves here. The "Pink Elephants On Parade" isn't fondly remembered for the song, but for it's visuals. Still amazing that they were able to pull off this kind of animation back in the 1940s. And I don't care what anyone says. I totally dug the crows. These guys had class. They had style.
Timothy saying "Lots of peoples with big ears are famous." is probably a reference to Clark Gable, a movie star in the 30's and 40's who was known for having big ears. As a side not, Pixar director Pete Docter also have big ears. Coincidently he's on the commentary track on Dumbo DVD and Bluray.
this may seem strange to say but, every time you say "how are you doing today?" even though we all know we can't talk about our day because you can't hear, it's really nice to hear that question and think "this is directed to me" because it makes me feel important and cared for, anyone else or just me? :3
The "Baby Mine" song always makes me tear up every single time. But it's a childhood nostalgic film so I still enjoy watching it time to time. Also! If you are curious about how that train sound was made, look up "casey jr voice" and the first video (about 1:15 in length and the title being from the Reluctant Dragon) should be the one.
Dumbo Facts: this was the fourth animated film the studio made, after Snow White, Pinocchio and Fantasia, but after the failed box office results of Pinocchio and Fantasia and the cut off market because of World War 2 Walt knew they had to make a smaller and less expensive film thus Dumbo and it has one of the shortest runtimes of any Disney feature another way they saved money was the use of watercolor backgrounds something that wouldn’t be seen again until Emperor’s New Groove. Because the film was such a big hit when it came out and raising the spirits of the people during World War 2 Time Magazine was going to have Dumbo on the cover for Mammal of the Year in place of Person of the Year, but then Pearl Harbor happened and so the Japanese General took that place, The film was nominated for Best Original Song for Baby Mine and Best Original Score, it didn’t win either, One factor I want to bring up is the Crows people think they are racist when they are not. First of all the lead crow is not named Jim like many people think and second even though the lead is voiced by Cliff Edwards who voiced Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio the rest are voiced by actual Black Men and after they make fun of him like everyone else and are straightened out by Timothy they realize Dumbo is an outcast just like them and help him as if it wasn’t for them he wouldn’t have had the confidence to fly and they are even happy for him when he is reunited with his mom and the reference choreography for the animators was done by the Nicholas Brothers a famous Black dance duo and even had a black choir for the background vocals, If there is anything that is made a statement of it is during the Roustabouts song with a whole bunch of faceless black men who risk their lives to make sure the circus is set up, When the film was being made the studio was going through an animators strike for better pay and Walt was against it and so in this film the animators are portrayed as clowns saying “Gonna hit the big boss up for a raise”, When Timothy is sneaking into the ringmaster’s room and you see his huge shadow on the wall that is a reference to the silent film Nosferatu and hoe Count Orok’s shadow went on the wall, The voice of the haughty elephant (the one with the purple they had putting in the train car) was Verna Felton this was her first voice for Disney and would go onto hearing her in Cinderella as the Fairy Godmother, Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp, Flora in Sleeping Beauty and her last role you still have to see as Winifred in The Jungle Book, Sterling Holloway also had his first role for Disney in this film as Mr. Stock and would go on to be as the adult voice of Flower in Bambi, you heard his voice also as Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, and Roquefort the mouse in AristoCats, and a few other films you need to see, So in terms of films from Walt Disney Animation Studios before 2000 you still need to see in order: Fantasia (1940), Saludos Amigos (1943) and Three Caballeros (1944) since Saludos is only a little over 40 minutes you could watch both together as a double feature, Make Mine Music (1946), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Melody Time (1948), The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), The Jungle Book (1967), And The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977), I didn’t include Rescuers or Rescuers Down Under since Nick will be watching them,
Kinda ironic Pinocchio a box office fail while the highest rated animation by Disney according to critics (100 % on Rotten Tomatoes, same for Winnie The Pooh. Even earlier Pinocchio was always 90+ rating wise).
Look, I agree the crows are better than a lot from their time, but having Cliff Edwards doing what he does in that style based on racist stereotypes does still make it ultimately racist charicatures at least as far as he's concerned. And I *like* the crows for the reasons you said narratively, but to pretend there's no racism there is to contribute to its further pervasiveness whether you mean to or not.
Let's eschew the loaded word 'racist'. The crows certainly play to racial stereotypes: dialect, hue, cigar, dress, and apparent shiftlessness (unlike the hardworking roustabouts). And in 1940, this was practically the only way either white or black people saw black people on the screen, which was harmful to both groups, in different ways. Sure, the 'coons' and minstrel-show blackface of the previous generation was almost gone (Bugs Bunny still invoked the minstrel-show image a couple of times, regrettably), but things still had a long way to go. The problem, as always, is how to view these things today, and it is a huge and often complex and nuanced subject. And of course, it depends on the audience. One should be careful letting a young child see it; they might not even notice that it is a racial stereotype; but they might also think that the crows are somehow a 'portrayal' of black people. Conversation might be necessary. When I was a kid, I was surprised that my parents thought I might take Bre'r Rabbit and Bre'r Fox as racial stereotypes, especially the 'tar baby' element. It honestly had not occurred to me that these were (some portrayal of) black characters. But then, my exposure to the Harris characters was through a Disney picture book that (I think) eschewed the Uncle Remus frame; I had never seen Song of the South. The moral of the story is, you never know. And of course the same applies to books, antiques, and any number of other things that we run across that recall those days of eye-rollin' lazy watermelon-eating colored characters (like the character 'Snowball' in the 1925 silent Wizard of Oz, played by Spencer Bell but credited to 'G. Howe Black'). Wince; and move on.
This movie was meant during a time of financial hardship of Disney. It was not the first (Snow White was), but it was made during a time where money was tight and they needed more cash flow. It’s one of the shortest films Disney has ever made as a result. Short and sweet
Despite all the controversy, The Crows actually became a very important part in the Movie. Instead of seeing them as offensive stereotypes, I prefer to just see them as regular talking animals. Btw, how come Dumbo gets the most controversey about black stereotypes, but the Black Fish from Little Mermaid got a free pass?
The distorted voice of the train engine was done by combining the actual sound of a steam engine’s pistons with the sounds of a microphone placed down a person’s throat while the actor mouthed the words. This technique was later used in the TV series The Twilight Zone to give a sinister voice to an evil slot machine, only there it was combined with the sounds of coins clinking into a jackpot tray.
Nick: "I'm going to watch Dumbo for the first time." Me: Oh no, not this one.... (I'm sorry but this movie traumatized me in more ways than one so I'm going leave this comment here and I'm gonna to go. Hope you like it though😅)
Same here. When I was a kid I loved this movie. I'm 35 today. Baby Mine turns me into mushy tears even today. Also, what makes this movie even sadder, now that I'm an adult, is that knowing Dumbo never made it past the alcoholic water drinking scene. That basically killed him. He was separated from his mom for days, and baby elephants at that age need their mother's milk. They can't digest solids properly yet at that age. So by the time he drank that water he was on the verge of death. Everything we saw after that was a fever dream and his final moments.
@@Tooba-K123 Sorry. As a kid I was happy seeing them reunite at the end, had a very innocent childhood. But later I realize what really happened and Jesus I cried badly. So yeah I feel you.
@@ssoltau9318 honestly even as a kid I find this movie so heartbreaking and the pink elephant song was traumatizing so I only watched it once. I only remembered glimpse of it. Now watching it as an adult I did had doubts as to how Dumbo only discovers about his abilities after meeting with his mom and getting drunk in that weak position. Not to mention how fast is that moment of his getting popular. The sad ending makes so much more sense as adult. It's breaking my heart.
@@Tooba-K123 With the pink elephant scene, oh my gosh. First time I saw this as a kid, I was so confused and scared at the same time. Not kidding here. I had no idea if I should be confused or screaming my lungs out and run out of the room like a little sissy girl. The rest of it, especially Baby Mine was so heartbreaking. Even today whenever I watch that part I cry big time. I'm a 35 year old guy and I cry badly with it.
I really like Dumbo! Sometimes, I find it hard to come back to it because of one thing, the feels! This film is a rollercoaster of emotions to me. You have those moments when we see Dumbo and his mother having their happy times, then those moments with those gossiping elephants are shunning Dumbo, and of course the “Baby Mine” sequence, which destroys me. I do love how Dumbo was able to overcome these obstacles, with the support of Timothy Mouse and become a real icon with his ability to fly using his wing-like ears. Again, I really like this film, truly a feels-worthy and uplifting story. And yes, Dumbo is definitely one of the cutest Disney animals.😊 Thanks a lot for the reaction, Nick!
Fun Fact: The Stork character, voiced by Sterling Halloway, also appears in the very adorable short “Lambert the Sheepish Lion”. That short was also narrated by Sterling Halloway.
Not just that, he appeared in a few other Disney movies, like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland and he was the original Winnie the Pooh for many years.
I'm not someone that cries much, in fact I rarely ever cry. With that said, every time I hear Baby Mine I immediately start tearing up. There's something about the emotion and the heartstrings that Disney's productions have always been able to pull that leaves me in shambles.
When I was little all the other kids had teddy bears, but I had a gray stuffed elephant with red ears I called Dumbo! I slept with that thing like forever but have no idea what happened to it. Two years ago my hubby gave me a gray stuffed elephant for my birthday! It sits at the head of our bed. 😊
For the the scene where they take his mother away, is one of the most heartbreaking scenes for me. Followed with the baby of mine scene. My heart still hurts thinking about it.
You know, I could be stating the obvious, but as Dumbo's mother is Mrs. Jumbo. . .could that mean Dumbo's father was THE Jumbo himself? That would add a bit of emotion since we all know what happened to him.
Nick should probably look up the real life Jumbo and P. T. Barnum's circus too.. I didn't like The Greatest Showman as a movie period, but especially knowing the reality behind him and the circus, I find it impossible to enjoy that story.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen this movie I forgot his name was Jumbo. I agree, it feels wrong to call him Dumbo. It’s just mean. He’s adorable! This movie is seriously a heartbreaking in so many ways. So much cruelty. I like the creativity with the train through.
I always love your reactions!! And Dumbo always used to get me once I learned about how circus's used to treat animals. Happy to say many don't anymore and rely on people's feats of grandeur instead. I am also really glad to hear you will be doing Hook because it was another movie that really connected with me growing up😊
37:55 Yeah, you're really not kidding about the length. Back when VHS was a thing, it was common for Disney to bundle an animated short onto their tapes of the feature films - however, when _Dumbo_ was released on VHS, it had *three* shorts play after the movie: one about Noah's Ark, a sequel to their _Three Little Pigs_ short, and one about three kittens that mess up some poor lady's house. That's how much room the tape had to spare, this movie's that short.
Just so you know, Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s very first animated film, and then films like Dumbo, Pinocchio, and all of those were released just a few years later. Anyway, yeah, I loved how characters like Tiny Tim came in, and showed compassion for characters like Dumbo after Dumbo got ridiculed for his large ears. I also liked how others learned to appreciate Dumbo’s large ears at the every end, and realized that they were a gift that made Dumbo much more unique, and special from others. Well, great reaction once again, and looking forward to Incredibles, and other reactions along the way!
Pink Elephants are actually a common hallucination with being really drunk. My father used to work in AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and he would talk with this one guy who was getting treated. He had bad shakes from the withdrawal of not drinking but he would still hallucinate. He would tell my dad about ‘pink elephants’ watching him from the corner of the ceiling. It’s a trippy scene but it’s one of my favorites. Also, I love the accuracy that this movie had with the behavior of elephants. It’s widely known that an identifier of an elephant in any distress will show a repetitive and monotonous motion of head bobbing, weaving, and swaying. Both Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo are swaying to show their emotional distress at being separated.
This was actually the first Disney movie I’ve ever watched and the sequence where the mother terrorizes the people at the circus was also the first time I went physically spastic. Dumbo was in production at the same time as Bambi, so Walt had basically all his animation staff working separately. Animator Eric Larson was part of the Bambi team (the owl) but he actually contributed to the lullaby sequence and he commented that the spontaneity emotionally contaminated his colleagues.
It‘s actually incredibly common for a circus to put up their own tent in every new town they get to. At least it’s like this where I’m from. And when they are done, they take everything with them to the next town. I couldn’t think of a circus, that has a tent that stays at the same place (or one that travels to already built tents), as it would be a lot harder to earn money, when you’re always in the same town. Plus they show the same show in every town ( often it only changes once a year). They do the training mostly before they even start their journey. Of course they’d keep training and maybe sometimes switch some things around, I could imagine.
Here in Germany it is similar. There is one local circus that does not move I know of. It is Circus Krone in Munich. But before a new couple of apartments were built in our neighborhood there used to be a flat area that was not used. I remember at least 3 different circus..es? which came very regular. Was a blast for all the children
I actually got pretty mad at the scene where Mrs.Jumbo got locked up for protecting Dumbo from those mean bully-kids. SHE DID NOT DESERVE TO GET LOCKED UP JUST FOR PROTECTING HER CHILD! THOSE KIDS WERE BEING MEAN AND BULLYING DUMBO, SO SHE TAIGHT THEM A LESSON THAT THEY PROBABLY WON’T EVER FORGET, AND WHAT DID SHE GET IN RETURN?! A PUNISHMENT FOR LIFE, AND GOT SEPARATED FROM DUMBO AS WELL. NO MOTHER DESERVES TO BE LOCKED AWAY JUST FOR PROTECTING THEIR CHILDREN! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡!
It doesn't matter how mean they were, unless they were physically hurting him, you can't have an elephant attacking kids. If another kid is teasing my kid, that doesn't give me the right to spank or smack someone else's kid. I can either talk to the other parents or take my kid and LEAVE. She couldve just moved Dumbo away from the kids. I don't blame the ringmaster at all for taking action.
@@oliviarogers2808 Yeah one time at Ringling Bros circus a really young Gator was out in the center with the Ring Master out there with him. When he wasn't listening to the Ring Master's commands when he slowly walked towards the front row audience he got it's attention and gently ushered the Gator back to his cage and basically said your grounded mister. If a circus animal don't listen to commands when children are involved it's a liability for them if anyone gets hurt. A lot of circuses want to avoid lawsuits.
I might make this worse for you then. When they show Mrs. Jumbo and Dumbo separated, notice they are both swaying and bobbing their heads. This is a common behavior from elephants that are distressed. For Disney to go that far with the accuracy makes my heart hurt.
Not 3 min in and I’m losing my mind over how anyone who sounds like English is their first language have not heard of the Stork that delivers babies, not even that it’s a household story parents tell kids, but just the the fact that’s used so damn much in cartoons and other media. Like, it’s Toothfairy levels of folk figures told to children at some point. I truly cannot love watching people’s reactions to anything more than I love watching this man experience things that are so common to me for the first time. I feel like I’m watching what kids who are experiencing TV actually think of while watching in ways they can’t actually verbalize.
An animation instructor recently said that the Pink Elephants sequence was added to stretch out the running length to 70 minutes, which is the length that a film must be to be consider a Feature Length Film. It was given to a single animator, who was told to let his imagination run wild. This is why you have so much surrealism in the sequence, which was unheard of in an animated film at the time.
Let’s be honest here: First time we watch Dumbo being a clown everyone laughed (even dare myself that was my favorite moment. Damn. I regret it; but the revenge part is awesome). I had this movie on VHS, aww good times
The Baby Mine song is so personal to me because I would always watch this movie with my mom when I was little and she would hold me close and play with my hair during that scene and sing me this song while putting me to sleep
Always reminds me of a murderous Mary. Mary (c. 1894-September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary",[1] was a five-ton Asian elephant[2] who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing a keeper on his second day at work, in Kingsport, Tennessee, in 1916, she was hanged in nearby Erwin. She had a bad tooth infection, that they didn't know but still shouldn't be hitting them like he or most of them did all the time. The details of the aftermath are confused in a maze of sensationalist newspaper stories and folklore. Most accounts indicate that she calmed down afterwards and did not charge the onlookers, who began chanting "Kill the elephant! Let's kill it." Within minutes, local blacksmith Hench Cox tried to kill Mary, firing five rounds with little effect.[3] Meanwhile, the leaders of several nearby towns threatened not to allow the circus to visit if Mary was included. The circus owner, Charlie Sparks, reluctantly decided that the only way to quickly resolve the potentially ruinous situation was to kill the wounded elephant in public. On the following day, a foggy and rainy September 13, 1916, Mary was transported by rail to Unicoi County, Tennessee, where a crowd of over 2,500 people (including most of the town's children) assembled in the Clinchfield Railroad yard. The elephant was hanged by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial derrick between four o'clock and five o'clock that afternoon.[5] The first attempt resulted in a snapped chain, causing Mary to fall and break her hip as dozens of children fled in terror. The severely wounded elephant died during a second attempt and was buried beside the tracks. A veterinarian examined Mary after the hanging and determined that she had a severely infected tooth in the precise spot where Red Eldridge had prodded her. I my self would rather have dead circus workers than ever having that happen again. Never support animal acts where ''people'' get payed to make an animal perform.
Hello! I absolutely love your reactions and reviews. Just wanted to point out that Snow White (1937) was Walt Disney's first full length animated feature film. Dumbo (1941) was his fourth 💗💗💗💗. Blessings and keep up the good work. I can't wait to see your next reaction.
Me too...and I am 37. I've always had a soft spot for Dumbo. The live action one DID NOT do it justice AT ALL. It didn't understand the ESSENCE of Dumbo's journey at all. ESPECIALLY the feather. Dumbo didn't NEED the "magic feather" to make him fly. It was just a metaphor for Dumbo overcoming his pain and humiliation and flying above it.
@@brendis16851 I absolutely agree. I am a film critic....and while Disney IS one of my favorite movie genres to write about, and I HAVE actually written SOME critiques on the BETTER remakes, like Cruella, this is one I decided to overlook...I DO have a critique for THIS version though. Its excellent.
13:19 That part I hate that. It wasn’t her fault. It is the boy who started it to make her angry. She is protecting her baby Dumbo. 32:44 That part is my favorite song
Fun fact: Dumbo was the movie that has saved Disney studios from going under especially when they didnt make much money from the earlier movies because of the great depression.
23:35 you’re not wrong about it. “Sometimes cheerful/sympathetic words, makes matters worse” I’m a optimistic person, but even I know where are the times when you shouldn’t be looking the bright side of bad stuff
Kudos to Danny Devito for making the Ringmaster,in Tim Burton’s Dumbo remake, soooo much nicer than the ringmaster in the original animated one that you are watching, Nick.
That used to be a thing, when kids asked where babies came from the answer was storks. So the storks in the beginning is was bring them their new baby.
Timothy Mouse is one of the best Disney characters and few people can recall his name. His name is never spoken. Its only visible on the contract he signs at the end of the movie and even then is upside down and backwards so many people never read it.
I think Tails and Dumbo would be great friends and good at comforting each other 🦊🐘With Dumbo having big ears and Tails having two tails. And they can both fly
In the short film Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day, there’s a song called Heffalumps and Woozles that not only took inspiration from Elephants on Parade but also recycled some of the animation from the song.
Hi! Maybe someone has already explained it to you, but the reason that the babies arrive by storks is this: When a parent has yet to have told their children where babies come from, some parents tell them that a stork delivers the baby (almost like a package), often in a basket. You could call it an old myth, I guess
This movie made me sad as a child, seeing how she was only protecting her child from a bully she got caged. As a mum, now I cry at her, reaching for her baby in the cage.
I believe this is one of the animated films by Disney in their canon that didn’t go beyond the 70-minute mark to count as a full-length feature film (at least to Oscar standards).
So glad you liked this one. There is so much convoluted BS surrounding this movie, with everybody yelling about the crows being offensive and so on and so forth, but it's one of my personal favorites. Sure, it's very much of its time, but it's still one of the best movies Disney has ever made - everybody screaming themselves hoarse about it should just calm down and actually watch the thing; they'd soon see there's nothing wrong with it.
I think the mouse was crying because of the entire situation. That Jumbo is this sweet beautiful creature who’s is being bullied for no reason except something he was born with and can’t change. What’s worse that he was taken away from his mother and not even having any other elephant to live or comfort. The entire relationship between the mom and jumbo makes me cry every time
That "Pink Elephants 🐘 On Parade" tune is supposed to be indicative of being drunk 🥴🙄😒😑🙃. In fact, here in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the was a nightclub at the "Hotel Barnum" called the "Pink Elephant", which had pink upholstered chairs, pink tables, napkins, and flooring, plus images of frosted elephants 🐘 on the mirrored walls. My father used to be a singer there in the 1940's, and in "The Arcade" downtown, are black and white photographs of the inside. Unfortunately, that gorgeous club is long gone, and the once glorious "Hotel Barnum" is currently a low-income housing project... 🤔
Fun Fact: Its success was such that Time Magazine originally planned to feature Dumbo on the cover of its December 8, 1941 issue honoring him as "Mammal of the Year." Unfortunately, the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 postponed it (it would later be published on December 29 later that year).
This was one of my favorite cartoons when I was little. I really connected with Dumbo and his mom. The pink elephants scared me silly, but now it’s one of my favorite scenes. So creative!
There’s a Dumbo ride located in Fantasy Land at Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Orlando,Florida. It’s always been my favorite ride at Magic Kingdom. I’ve ridden it every single time I went to Disney World.
The pink elephants on parade sequence scared me when I was a kid. Now I can see its basically an acid trip the animators went on. I'm surprised you didn't like the songs. "Baby of Mine" and "When I See an Elephant Fly" are two iconic Disney songs.
This came out in 1941, the depiction of the circus arriving is pretty accurate, as is the treatment of Dumbos mother sadly. Its likely that IRL his mother would've been killed rather than just locked up. Different times.. 😢
I remember being very connected to the Lullaby Baby Mine and hearing it as an adult makes me cry so much because it reminded me of how much my Mother would sing it to me as a child, which makes me more sadder because I don’t have a not so good relationship with her now (we still see eachother but it’s now different) and every time I was sad I would always hum the Lullaby
Disney’s very first animated feature film was Snow White And the Seven Dwarfs. That movie came out in 1937. So Dumbo came out a year after Pinocchio and Fantasia.
Hey everyone hope you enjoyed the reaction! See you next for The Incredibles and a surprise movie!!
You should watch dumbo (2019)
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Yayyyyyyyyyyyy watch finding Nemo and watch happy feet 2 and also watch ice age 5 pretty please nick please
@@Ortizproductions14 no thanks 🙏
Watch Inside Out, Toy Story, Finding Nemo please
The scene where his mom comforts him and sings to him from the inside the cage with her only being able to touch him with her trunk makes me cry everytime I see it I'm so glad she got a happy ending
Yeah. It is relatable to kids who may have been separated from their parents or if one of their parents was in jail. Not many movies touch on that part. Though also touches on animal cruelty. I was adopted so it hits me the more the times I watch it. First time I did not cry but the more often you see it the harder it gets. 😞🙂
This makes me bawl my head off ❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@Shastasnow I’m also adopted and it hits me the same way, they strike that really deep nerve.
Baby Mine is always a good one
It's so sad, I was crying every time I saw that, I was also crying at the dog shelter music
Back in the day, they used to tell children that babies came from a stork, rather than tell them where they actually came from. A stork would fly in and drop off their babies. So, that’s what the opening scene was depicting 🙂
Thanks so much for explaining!
The stork being late probably depicting she gived birth late, and her not getting her baby like the other animals depicting she had probably a miscarriage
Think of it almost like Mumble's birth in Happy Feet
@@HarmonyOC True. Not to mention even at the scene where she's waiting for the baby, it looks like she's worn out.
@@Tooba-K123 in know
Love this movie. A classic.
Fun Fact: The lullaby "Baby Mine" from this film has become one of Disney's best remembered and regarded songs. It has been covered by several artists over the years, often with commercial success. The American Film Institute has included it in its list of nominees for 100 best film songs.
breaks my heart every time I hear it
"Baby mine" was the "You'll be in my heart" of the 40s
As much as I love Dumbo, Timothy is probably my favorite character in this movie. He owed Dumbo nothing, hadn’t shared a single word with him, and all he knew was what he had heard from gossip. However, he saw that Dumbo was alone and took it upon himself to be his friend, caretaker, and manager doing whatever he could to get him to the top. Everyone needs a friend like him.
I thought so too when I first saw this.
I also thought it was sweet how he looked at Dumbo's ears and instead of laughing at or ostracizing him, he said "I don't see anything wrong with them. I think they're cute." He didn't just befriend Dumbo because he was lonely - he genuinely didn't see any reason for him to be treated so badly.
Because he's the only one who genuinely saw only a child and the cruelness the child is facing without his mother. I guess Tim understand because he too had been through such situation.
100%. Timothy is a fucking legend. 😍😍😍🐁🐁🐁
Timothy is a good friend
I love this movie but the “Baby Mine” scene will ALWAYS turn into a sobbing mess 😂
If I even think about that scene, I tear up.
The pink elephants sequence remains one of the most influential moments in animation. Voice actors Thurl Ravenscroft (who would sing the Grinch song over 25 years later) and Looney Tunes voice actor Mel Blanc all lend their voices to that sequence Which wasn't his first time recording lines for Disney. He had previously voiced Gideon The Cat in Pinocchio, only to have all his lines cut when they made Gideon a mute character.
Wow never know this.. thanks! I really like the pink elephants scene but with this knowledge it gets more value.
Thurl Ravenscroft was perhaps better known for his many years voicing Tony the Tiger for Kellogg's. He was grrrrrrrreat! (and had a wonderful name to namedrop)
I can't be the only one who was low-key traumatized by the pink elephants? I kinda liked it but some of really scared me, like the big one stepping on the small one.. or the tall elephant zapping its short partner with the lightning. It's definitely trippy 😂
Warner Bros may be his mainstay, but Mel Blanc isn’t picky about which studio he provides voice work for.
@@majkus And he was Kirby in The Brave Little Toaster
IMO Dumbo is both one of the most endearing Disney movies but also one of the weirdest and sometimes most depressing because of how cruel the world around him is. The ending is such a relief after all that’s happened
Some people felt like the crows were too stereotypically offensive. Personally, I'm a black man and I was never bothered by it growing up. In fact, I love the song "When I See An Elephant Fly" though I do understand some of the controversy.
Best song in the film!
People shouldn't decide what is and isn't offensive on other people's behalf.
@@PikminandOatchi see the problem is you're right, but others will twist that and use it to justify allowing hate speech to be used freely.
People find the Roustabouts Song offensive too, but I'm convinced that it's commentary. I know people will say that I'm giving the writers of the time too much credit, which is possible, but just the way it's written doesn't come off to me as something someone would say if they actually believed it. It's actually my favorite song in the movie (close to Pink Elephants).
@@videohistory722 Yeah true but thankfully most actual racists are pretty blatant so it's easy to call them out.
If black people are offended by these birds fair enough but if they aren't they shouldn't be told they are wrong.
This is actually one of my favorite classic Disney movies. I've always had a soft spot for Dumbo. His Mom's lullaby (Baby Mine) makes me cry every time.
To me, Dumbo, like Bambi, is one of the cutest Disney characters ever, hence why I love them. 😍😍😍
It's cute that Dumbo was holding onto Timothy's tail when he was walking behind him.
the scene where Dumbo first got separated from his mom, he is rocking side to side, that's actually what happens to abused caged animals... I'm glad I don't really remember much of this film when I watched it as a kid because its traumatizing to see it now as an adult knowing that was really happening to circus animals...
And I’m glad I never watch this movie up until now.
I only remember glimpse of it in childhood and I'm glad I don't remember most of cause even as a kid this movie felt traumatic. I've finally seen it now as an adult and can't stop bawling my eyes out. Disney sure were dark at this point, I kinda miss it in modern movies.
This was Disney's 4th animated feature. The last one to be completed before WWII. Then they managed to finish Bambi before doing a series of package films to avoid bankruptcy and compensate for the animators who were drafted into the army. To anyone who is unaware of the historical context, these six package films, from "Saludos Amigos," to "The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad," might look out of place if you watch them today.
not at all i watched all of them couple of months ago and thier stil adorable movies, some of the best animation was used in the 40's
I watched every one of those packaged films and none of them feel out of place. World War II was a problem for the studio and the US Army occupied the lot for the animators who remained to make propaganda animated films for them and to use as a training ground. This did not sit well with Walt.
The idea of storks delivering babies is a slightly old fashioned. It was how people would explain to kids, where babies came from.
I’m surprised he didn’t put the pieces together during that scene tbh
@@LoveKillFear777 he can clearly see what's happening. That doesn't explain the reasoning though
I always thought it was clever that Mrs Jumbo is in a big birthing pen, away from the other elephants.
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"Baby mine" will ALWAYS destroy me. Just thinking about the scene and the tears start running.
Timothy is one of my favourite Disney characters. Him scaring those snooty elephants is one of my favourite scenes.
Hey Nick! Great video! You may not have known, which is perfectly fine, but storks are often depicted bringing babies to people (or in this case animals). It's something parents would say to kids when they ask "where do babies come from?" "The storks bring the babies!"
Thanks for explaining!
@@nickflix8657 It's no problem at all! Glad to help 😊
When I was younger, I actually learned where babies come from from reading about the human body, so I assumed the stork thing was an allegory for adoption, and I thought it was original to _Dumbo_ .
Why adoption, you might ask? Well, because the babies didn't come out of their mothers. To quote Vicky Pollard from _Little Britain_ , "It was one of those you where you don't even know you're pregnant till it comes out. They had to sign the paper - it was well graphic!"
@@nickflix8657 please do a movie reaction one of my favorite live action disney movies its from 1968 it stars dean Jones michelle Lee buddy Hackett from its a mad mad mad world they are all amazing awesome old fashioned wonderful actors from the old days its called the love bug
Also, as about the pink elephants... there is a saying "to get drunk till pink elephants / little devils", which means hallucinating after getting drunk. (There's also a saying "dead bees don't buzz, and if they do, they do it very very quietly" which means someone is so drunk that they can't even talk. A funny thing, those sayings)
Oh Dumbo 😢 The cruelty of humans, separating a mom and her baby and abusing them both. It made me cry as a kid and it makes me cry now.
I mean on the other hand, you can't have elephants attacking kids. Even if they're being jerks.
@@oliviarogers2808 I can understand that, because it's dangerous for other people too. but it's still sad when I watched it :(
Me too!! She was just defending her baby from that bully!!😢
You’re so awesome!! I just love your whole personality.❤. I would love to be friends with you.
"Even though they're old, I find the animation amazing." Kid, the 1940s were Disney Studios at the height of their technique. Zillions of artists making bazillions of hand-painted cels, led by artists who felt limited only by their imaginations in what they could put on the screen. And this film is even more fanciful than the other Disney offerings of that era (while being less 'painterly' than, say, Pinocchio). Don't fall for chronological snobbery.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s first animated feature film. I believe Dumbo was their 4th.
I’d highly recommend watching Fantasia if you want a truly different Disney animated film.
Fantasia is evvvvverything night on bald mountain I live the sorcerers apprentice I livve
Fantasia isn't super good for reacting though.
@@PikminandOatchi I’ve never seen anyone react to it, so I can’t be the judge of that
The 2nd Disney animated feature film was Pinocchio.
Mr. Stork was voiced by the lovable Sterling Holloway, who was also the voice for Roquefort from The Aristocats, the Cheshire Cat from Alice In Wonderland, Kaa from The Jungle Book, and his most famous role, Winnie The Pooh!
Omg this movie would make me cry like no other with the scene with Dumbo and his mom. I'm getting misty just think about it 😭
Me too! My father left us when I was 5. So all my sister and I had was our mom. She worked 2 jobs to take care of us. I would put myself in the place of characters like Dumbo and Bambi wondering how I would feel if I had lost my mom. I would cry and cry at the thought. My mom would hold me close during the sad scenes and assure me that she is still here. I'm lucky to still have my mom.
I never thought of this before, but seeing how high they were gonna make Dumbo jump at the end there 35:45, he definitely wouldn't have survived that. The humans said he was basically "rubber" and didn't have feelings. If Dumbo hadn't learned to fly he would've died right there.
Actually someone told me there's a theory that Dumbo actually died in the pink elephant song because of weakness and alcohol. This following sequence of his discovering his gift, surviving the fall and becoming famous is either the last dream of his or his mother's.
To both of you, thanks for ruining the film. 😂
@@monsterhanna6691 sorry bro, blame the other commenter who ruined it for me 😂 I never really thought of the dark theory myself.
@@Tooba-K123 that's a stupid theory, actually haha "Oh it would be more realistic" sure, but since the beginning we have animals talking, elephants being proud, the stork bringing babies to everyone, an elephant that can control his ears like he does his arms... The pink elephants ARE creepy, but I think it serves the purpose of saying "don't drink kids" and also to add shock value to when they learn that Dumbo can fly (instead of him simply flying, it's cooler to have them wake up in a tree all confused)
@@erikperhs_ honestly I think both theories are fine. Good thing it's just a "theory" and not something that happened in the movie which served as a great purpose of serving as "your weakness can also be your strength". However those who prefer a realistic part can consist the dark theory to be true too. I'm okay with both but damn I can never imagine a cutie like Jumbo to have that fate, even the thought itself scares me for an fictional character on top of that.
Even as a kid you could tell very early (like 10:35) that something's wrong.. using the animals to build the circus is wrong. Keeping animals for the sake of entertainment is wrong. Keeping them in cages is wrong.
That and also the black labor
The "Baby Mine" scene always makes me cry. It's also the lullaby that I sang to all my nieces and nephews when they were babies.
Your reactions to these classic Disney movies are so innocent and sweet, like seeing them through a child’s eyes again. Thank you ✨
My grandmother LOVED elephants. She took care of me ever since I was a newborn and this and her watching with me saw the value in an animal's feelings and also how much a mom loves her baby. My grandmother passed away at 74 years old and the "Baby Mine" scene makes me think back on the love she gave me as a child. Absolutely wonderful movie 😭❤❤🥺
No matter what advances have been made since then, the early Disney cartoon features remain the most exquisitely beautiful and technically impressive ones ever made.
19:15 the matriarch elephant and Mrs Jumbo are both voiced by Verna Felton. For a fact that Disney used her warmful voice throughout her career at Disney and her job comes to full circle who voiced another matriarch elephant as Winifred from the Jungle Book.
Let's not kid ourselves here. The "Pink Elephants On Parade" isn't fondly remembered for the song, but for it's visuals. Still amazing that they were able to pull off this kind of animation back in the 1940s. And I don't care what anyone says. I totally dug the crows. These guys had class. They had style.
Timothy saying "Lots of peoples with big ears are famous." is probably a reference to Clark Gable, a movie star in the 30's and 40's who was known for having big ears. As a side not, Pixar director Pete Docter also have big ears. Coincidently he's on the commentary track on Dumbo DVD and Bluray.
this may seem strange to say but, every time you say "how are you doing today?" even though we all know we can't talk about our day because you can't hear, it's really nice to hear that question and think "this is directed to me" because it makes me feel important and cared for, anyone else or just me? :3
The "Baby Mine" song always makes me tear up every single time. But it's a childhood nostalgic film so I still enjoy watching it time to time.
Also! If you are curious about how that train sound was made, look up "casey jr voice" and the first video (about 1:15 in length and the title being from the Reluctant Dragon) should be the one.
Dumbo Facts:
this was the fourth animated film the studio made, after Snow White, Pinocchio and Fantasia, but after the failed box office results of Pinocchio and Fantasia and the cut off market because of World War 2 Walt knew they had to make a smaller and less expensive film thus Dumbo and it has one of the shortest runtimes of any Disney feature another way they saved money was the use of watercolor backgrounds something that wouldn’t be seen again until Emperor’s New Groove.
Because the film was such a big hit when it came out and raising the spirits of the people during World War 2 Time Magazine was going to have Dumbo on the cover for Mammal of the Year in place of Person of the Year, but then Pearl Harbor happened and so the Japanese General took that place,
The film was nominated for Best Original Song for Baby Mine and Best Original Score, it didn’t win either,
One factor I want to bring up is the Crows people think they are racist when they are not. First of all the lead crow is not named Jim like many people think and second even though the lead is voiced by Cliff Edwards who voiced Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio the rest are voiced by actual Black Men and after they make fun of him like everyone else and are straightened out by Timothy they realize Dumbo is an outcast just like them and help him as if it wasn’t for them he wouldn’t have had the confidence to fly and they are even happy for him when he is reunited with his mom and the reference choreography for the animators was done by the Nicholas Brothers a famous Black dance duo and even had a black choir for the background vocals, If there is anything that is made a statement of it is during the Roustabouts song with a whole bunch of faceless black men who risk their lives to make sure the circus is set up,
When the film was being made the studio was going through an animators strike for better pay and Walt was against it and so in this film the animators are portrayed as clowns saying “Gonna hit the big boss up for a raise”,
When Timothy is sneaking into the ringmaster’s room and you see his huge shadow on the wall that is a reference to the silent film Nosferatu and hoe Count Orok’s shadow went on the wall,
The voice of the haughty elephant (the one with the purple they had putting in the train car) was Verna Felton this was her first voice for Disney and would go onto hearing her in Cinderella as the Fairy Godmother, Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp, Flora in Sleeping Beauty and her last role you still have to see as Winifred in The Jungle Book,
Sterling Holloway also had his first role for Disney in this film as Mr. Stock and would go on to be as the adult voice of Flower in Bambi, you heard his voice also as Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland, and Roquefort the mouse in AristoCats, and a few other films you need to see,
So in terms of films from Walt Disney Animation Studios before 2000 you still need to see in order:
Fantasia (1940),
Saludos Amigos (1943) and Three Caballeros (1944) since Saludos is only a little over 40 minutes you could watch both together as a double feature,
Make Mine Music (1946),
Fun and Fancy Free (1947),
Melody Time (1948),
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949),
The Jungle Book (1967),
And The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977),
I didn’t include Rescuers or Rescuers Down Under since Nick will be watching them,
Definitely looking forward to Fantasia!!
Good to know. Because, I liked fun facts from every movies.
Kinda ironic Pinocchio a box office fail while the highest rated animation by Disney according to critics (100 % on Rotten Tomatoes, same for Winnie The Pooh. Even earlier Pinocchio was always 90+ rating wise).
Look, I agree the crows are better than a lot from their time, but having Cliff Edwards doing what he does in that style based on racist stereotypes does still make it ultimately racist charicatures at least as far as he's concerned. And I *like* the crows for the reasons you said narratively, but to pretend there's no racism there is to contribute to its further pervasiveness whether you mean to or not.
Let's eschew the loaded word 'racist'. The crows certainly play to racial stereotypes: dialect, hue, cigar, dress, and apparent shiftlessness (unlike the hardworking roustabouts). And in 1940, this was practically the only way either white or black people saw black people on the screen, which was harmful to both groups, in different ways. Sure, the 'coons' and minstrel-show blackface of the previous generation was almost gone (Bugs Bunny still invoked the minstrel-show image a couple of times, regrettably), but things still had a long way to go.
The problem, as always, is how to view these things today, and it is a huge and often complex and nuanced subject. And of course, it depends on the audience. One should be careful letting a young child see it; they might not even notice that it is a racial stereotype; but they might also think that the crows are somehow a 'portrayal' of black people. Conversation might be necessary. When I was a kid, I was surprised that my parents thought I might take Bre'r Rabbit and Bre'r Fox as racial stereotypes, especially the 'tar baby' element. It honestly had not occurred to me that these were (some portrayal of) black characters. But then, my exposure to the Harris characters was through a Disney picture book that (I think) eschewed the Uncle Remus frame; I had never seen Song of the South. The moral of the story is, you never know.
And of course the same applies to books, antiques, and any number of other things that we run across that recall those days of eye-rollin' lazy watermelon-eating colored characters (like the character 'Snowball' in the 1925 silent Wizard of Oz, played by Spencer Bell but credited to 'G. Howe Black'). Wince; and move on.
This movie was meant during a time of financial hardship of Disney. It was not the first (Snow White was), but it was made during a time where money was tight and they needed more cash flow.
It’s one of the shortest films Disney has ever made as a result. Short and sweet
Despite all the controversy, The Crows actually became a very important part in the Movie. Instead of seeing them as offensive stereotypes, I prefer to just see them as regular talking animals. Btw, how come Dumbo gets the most controversey about black stereotypes, but the Black Fish from Little Mermaid got a free pass?
Or the black red crab, for that matter.
You mean the crab...
@@angelamitchinson8439 No, I mean Black Fish. You know, that's there one bit during Under the Sea where the sing 'The Black Fish she sings'
The distorted voice of the train engine was done by combining the actual sound of a steam engine’s pistons with the sounds of a microphone placed down a person’s throat while the actor mouthed the words. This technique was later used in the TV series The Twilight Zone to give a sinister voice to an evil slot machine, only there it was combined with the sounds of coins clinking into a jackpot tray.
The whole drunk, dancing elephant scene gave me nightmares as a child. I always pressed forward on that one. 🙈
Nick: "I'm going to watch Dumbo for the first time."
Me: Oh no, not this one....
(I'm sorry but this movie traumatized me in more ways than one so I'm going leave this comment here and I'm gonna to go. Hope you like it though😅)
Same here. When I was a kid I loved this movie. I'm 35 today. Baby Mine turns me into mushy tears even today. Also, what makes this movie even sadder, now that I'm an adult, is that knowing Dumbo never made it past the alcoholic water drinking scene. That basically killed him. He was separated from his mom for days, and baby elephants at that age need their mother's milk. They can't digest solids properly yet at that age. So by the time he drank that water he was on the verge of death. Everything we saw after that was a fever dream and his final moments.
@@ssoltau9318 oh don't, you're making me well up.
@@Tooba-K123 Sorry. As a kid I was happy seeing them reunite at the end, had a very innocent childhood. But later I realize what really happened and Jesus I cried badly. So yeah I feel you.
@@ssoltau9318 honestly even as a kid I find this movie so heartbreaking and the pink elephant song was traumatizing so I only watched it once. I only remembered glimpse of it. Now watching it as an adult I did had doubts as to how Dumbo only discovers about his abilities after meeting with his mom and getting drunk in that weak position. Not to mention how fast is that moment of his getting popular. The sad ending makes so much more sense as adult. It's breaking my heart.
@@Tooba-K123 With the pink elephant scene, oh my gosh. First time I saw this as a kid, I was so confused and scared at the same time. Not kidding here. I had no idea if I should be confused or screaming my lungs out and run out of the room like a little sissy girl.
The rest of it, especially Baby Mine was so heartbreaking. Even today whenever I watch that part I cry big time. I'm a 35 year old guy and I cry badly with it.
I really like Dumbo! Sometimes, I find it hard to come back to it because of one thing, the feels! This film is a rollercoaster of emotions to me. You have those moments when we see Dumbo and his mother having their happy times, then those moments with those gossiping elephants are shunning Dumbo, and of course the “Baby Mine” sequence, which destroys me.
I do love how Dumbo was able to overcome these obstacles, with the support of Timothy Mouse and become a real icon with his ability to fly using his wing-like ears. Again, I really like this film, truly a feels-worthy and uplifting story. And yes, Dumbo is definitely one of the cutest Disney animals.😊 Thanks a lot for the reaction, Nick!
The scene when Dumbo's mom comforts him always kills me... The song always brings tears to my eyes.
Fun Fact: The Stork character, voiced by Sterling Halloway, also appears in the very adorable short “Lambert the Sheepish Lion”. That short was also narrated by Sterling Halloway.
Not just that, he appeared in a few other Disney movies, like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland and he was the original Winnie the Pooh for many years.
I'm not someone that cries much, in fact I rarely ever cry. With that said, every time I hear Baby Mine I immediately start tearing up. There's something about the emotion and the heartstrings that Disney's productions have always been able to pull that leaves me in shambles.
When I was little all the other kids had teddy bears, but I had a gray stuffed elephant with red ears I called Dumbo! I slept with that thing like forever but have no idea what happened to it. Two years ago my hubby gave me a gray stuffed elephant for my birthday! It sits at the head of our bed. 😊
For the the scene where they take his mother away, is one of the most heartbreaking scenes for me. Followed with the baby of mine scene. My heart still hurts thinking about it.
You know, I could be stating the obvious, but as Dumbo's mother is Mrs. Jumbo. . .could that mean Dumbo's father was THE Jumbo himself? That would add a bit of emotion since we all know what happened to him.
Pretty sure that's implied.
Nick should probably look up the real life Jumbo and P. T. Barnum's circus too.. I didn't like The Greatest Showman as a movie period, but especially knowing the reality behind him and the circus, I find it impossible to enjoy that story.
@@inkeriananas by that logic you can't possibly enjoy Pocahontas, Anastasia, or Titanic.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen this movie I forgot his name was Jumbo. I agree, it feels wrong to call him Dumbo. It’s just mean. He’s adorable!
This movie is seriously a heartbreaking in so many ways. So much cruelty.
I like the creativity with the train through.
I know right. That's I always try to call him Jumbo
I always love your reactions!! And Dumbo always used to get me once I learned about how circus's used to treat animals. Happy to say many don't anymore and rely on people's feats of grandeur instead.
I am also really glad to hear you will be doing Hook because it was another movie that really connected with me growing up😊
37:55 Yeah, you're really not kidding about the length. Back when VHS was a thing, it was common for Disney to bundle an animated short onto their tapes of the feature films - however, when _Dumbo_ was released on VHS, it had *three* shorts play after the movie: one about Noah's Ark, a sequel to their _Three Little Pigs_ short, and one about three kittens that mess up some poor lady's house. That's how much room the tape had to spare, this movie's that short.
Just so you know, Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs was Disney’s very first animated film, and then films like Dumbo, Pinocchio, and all of those were released just a few years later. Anyway, yeah, I loved how characters like Tiny Tim came in, and showed compassion for characters like Dumbo after Dumbo got ridiculed for his large ears. I also liked how others learned to appreciate Dumbo’s large ears at the every end, and realized that they were a gift that made Dumbo much more unique, and special from others. Well, great reaction once again, and looking forward to Incredibles, and other reactions along the way!
Pink Elephants are actually a common hallucination with being really drunk. My father used to work in AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and he would talk with this one guy who was getting treated. He had bad shakes from the withdrawal of not drinking but he would still hallucinate. He would tell my dad about ‘pink elephants’ watching him from the corner of the ceiling.
It’s a trippy scene but it’s one of my favorites.
Also, I love the accuracy that this movie had with the behavior of elephants. It’s widely known that an identifier of an elephant in any distress will show a repetitive and monotonous motion of head bobbing, weaving, and swaying. Both Dumbo and Mrs. Jumbo are swaying to show their emotional distress at being separated.
The scene with the pink elephants is one I always remember so well from my childhood for some reason, but it weirds me out more as an adult now 😂
This was actually the first Disney movie I’ve ever watched and the sequence where the mother terrorizes the people at the circus was also the first time I went physically spastic. Dumbo was in production at the same time as Bambi, so Walt had basically all his animation staff working separately. Animator Eric Larson was part of the Bambi team (the owl) but he actually contributed to the lullaby sequence and he commented that the spontaneity emotionally contaminated his colleagues.
It‘s actually incredibly common for a circus to put up their own tent in every new town they get to. At least it’s like this where I’m from. And when they are done, they take everything with them to the next town.
I couldn’t think of a circus, that has a tent that stays at the same place (or one that travels to already built tents), as it would be a lot harder to earn money, when you’re always in the same town.
Plus they show the same show in every town ( often it only changes once a year). They do the training mostly before they even start their journey. Of course they’d keep training and maybe sometimes switch some things around, I could imagine.
Here in Germany it is similar. There is one local circus that does not move I know of. It is Circus Krone in Munich.
But before a new couple of apartments were built in our neighborhood there used to be a flat area that was not used. I remember at least 3 different circus..es? which came very regular. Was a blast for all the children
“Baby Mine “ is one of the most beautiful songs ever in any movie. Very very moving.
I actually got pretty mad at the scene where Mrs.Jumbo got locked up for protecting Dumbo from those mean bully-kids. SHE DID NOT DESERVE TO GET LOCKED UP JUST FOR PROTECTING HER CHILD! THOSE KIDS WERE BEING MEAN AND BULLYING DUMBO, SO SHE TAIGHT THEM A LESSON THAT THEY PROBABLY WON’T EVER FORGET, AND WHAT DID SHE GET IN RETURN?! A PUNISHMENT FOR LIFE, AND GOT SEPARATED FROM DUMBO AS WELL. NO MOTHER DESERVES TO BE LOCKED AWAY JUST FOR PROTECTING THEIR CHILDREN! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡!
It doesn't matter how mean they were, unless they were physically hurting him, you can't have an elephant attacking kids. If another kid is teasing my kid, that doesn't give me the right to spank or smack someone else's kid. I can either talk to the other parents or take my kid and LEAVE. She couldve just moved Dumbo away from the kids. I don't blame the ringmaster at all for taking action.
@@oliviarogers2808 Yeah one time at Ringling Bros circus a really young Gator was out in the center with the Ring Master out there with him. When he wasn't listening to the Ring Master's commands when he slowly walked towards the front row audience he got it's attention and gently ushered the Gator back to his cage and basically said your grounded mister. If a circus animal don't listen to commands when children are involved it's a liability for them if anyone gets hurt. A lot of circuses want to avoid lawsuits.
I might make this worse for you then.
When they show Mrs. Jumbo and Dumbo separated, notice they are both swaying and bobbing their heads. This is a common behavior from elephants that are distressed. For Disney to go that far with the accuracy makes my heart hurt.
Not 3 min in and I’m losing my mind over how anyone who sounds like English is their first language have not heard of the Stork that delivers babies, not even that it’s a household story parents tell kids, but just the the fact that’s used so damn much in cartoons and other media. Like, it’s Toothfairy levels of folk figures told to children at some point.
I truly cannot love watching people’s reactions to anything more than I love watching this man experience things that are so common to me for the first time. I feel like I’m watching what kids who are experiencing TV actually think of while watching in ways they can’t actually verbalize.
An animation instructor recently said that the Pink Elephants sequence was added to stretch out the running length to 70 minutes, which is the length that a film must be to be consider a Feature Length Film. It was given to a single animator, who was told to let his imagination run wild. This is why you have so much surrealism in the sequence, which was unheard of in an animated film at the time.
Let’s be honest here: First time we watch Dumbo being a clown everyone laughed (even dare myself that was my favorite moment. Damn. I regret it; but the revenge part is awesome).
I had this movie on VHS, aww good times
Can't relate, even as a kid I felt heartbroken for him throughout the movie. I despised the circus for ridiculing him, and for profit too.
@@inkeriananas that’s so amazing man, the fact that you realize it, says a lot.
Nope even as a kid I felt bad for him. His face was too cute to be turned into a clown.
The stork, Sterling Holloway, is also the original voice of Winnie the Pooh.
Don’t forget the Cheshire Cat.
I swear, Nick's reactions are so precious.
The Baby Mine song is so personal to me because I would always watch this movie with my mom when I was little and she would hold me close and play with my hair during that scene and sing me this song while putting me to sleep
Always reminds me of a murderous Mary.
Mary (c. 1894-September 13, 1916), also known as "Murderous Mary",[1] was a five-ton Asian elephant[2] who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing a keeper on his second day at work, in Kingsport, Tennessee, in 1916, she was hanged in nearby Erwin.
She had a bad tooth infection, that they didn't know but still shouldn't be hitting them like he or most of them did all the time.
The details of the aftermath are confused in a maze of sensationalist newspaper stories and folklore. Most accounts indicate that she calmed down afterwards and did not charge the onlookers, who began chanting "Kill the elephant! Let's kill it." Within minutes, local blacksmith Hench Cox tried to kill Mary, firing five rounds with little effect.[3] Meanwhile, the leaders of several nearby towns threatened not to allow the circus to visit if Mary was included. The circus owner, Charlie Sparks, reluctantly decided that the only way to quickly resolve the potentially ruinous situation was to kill the wounded elephant in public. On the following day, a foggy and rainy September 13, 1916, Mary was transported by rail to Unicoi County, Tennessee, where a crowd of over 2,500 people (including most of the town's children) assembled in the Clinchfield Railroad yard.
The elephant was hanged by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial derrick between four o'clock and five o'clock that afternoon.[5] The first attempt resulted in a snapped chain, causing Mary to fall and break her hip as dozens of children fled in terror. The severely wounded elephant died during a second attempt and was buried beside the tracks. A veterinarian examined Mary after the hanging and determined that she had a severely infected tooth in the precise spot where Red Eldridge had prodded her.
I my self would rather have dead circus workers than ever having that happen again. Never support animal acts where ''people'' get payed to make an animal perform.
"The very thing that held you down are going to bring you up." -Timothee Mouse
What a beautiful message.
Hello! I absolutely love your reactions and reviews. Just wanted to point out that Snow White (1937) was Walt Disney's first full length animated feature film. Dumbo (1941) was his fourth 💗💗💗💗. Blessings and keep up the good work. I can't wait to see your next reaction.
The baby mine song still brings me to tears.
Me too...and I am 37. I've always had a soft spot for Dumbo. The live action one DID NOT do it justice AT ALL. It didn't understand the ESSENCE of Dumbo's journey at all. ESPECIALLY the feather. Dumbo didn't NEED the "magic feather" to make him fly. It was just a metaphor for Dumbo overcoming his pain and humiliation and flying above it.
@@CeltycSparrow the live action remake, aside of being unnecessary, was mediocre, souless and stupid.
@@brendis16851 I absolutely agree. I am a film critic....and while Disney IS one of my favorite movie genres to write about, and I HAVE actually written SOME critiques on the BETTER remakes, like Cruella, this is one I decided to overlook...I DO have a critique for THIS version though. Its excellent.
Fun Fact:Disney planned to make a sequel to Dumbo. Unfortunately, they decided to cancel it.
My son's nursery was done in Dumbo. I love this movie. ♥️
13:19 That part I hate that. It wasn’t her fault. It is the boy who started it to make her angry. She is protecting her baby Dumbo.
32:44 That part is my favorite song
I love how genuine your reactions always are in your videos! You're by far one of the best reaction channels i've come across
Fun fact: Dumbo was the movie that has saved Disney studios from going under especially when they didnt make much money from the earlier movies because of the great depression.
Disney is doing just fine in the great depression, the problem is because of WWII
@@KaminoKatie Yeah, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese Empire and America declared war on Japan.
23:35 you’re not wrong about it.
“Sometimes cheerful/sympathetic words, makes matters worse”
I’m a optimistic person, but even I know where are the times when you shouldn’t be looking the bright side of bad stuff
Kudos to Danny Devito for making the Ringmaster,in Tim Burton’s Dumbo remake, soooo much nicer than the ringmaster in the original animated one that you are watching, Nick.
That used to be a thing, when kids asked where babies came from the answer was storks. So the storks in the beginning is was bring them their new baby.
Thanks for explaining!
Timothy Mouse is one of the best Disney characters and few people can recall his name. His name is never spoken. Its only visible on the contract he signs at the end of the movie and even then is upside down and backwards so many people never read it.
I think Tails and Dumbo would be great friends and good at comforting each other 🦊🐘With Dumbo having big ears and Tails having two tails. And they can both fly
I think it's adorable you didn't know the fable of the storks delivering babies to expectant parents. XD
In the short film Winnie The Pooh and the Blustery Day, there’s a song called Heffalumps and Woozles that not only took inspiration from Elephants on Parade but also recycled some of the animation from the song.
Names like Sterling Holloway, Verna Felton, and Thurl Ravenscroft were longtime contributors to Disney in the following years after Dumbo.
Hi! Maybe someone has already explained it to you, but the reason that the babies arrive by storks is this: When a parent has yet to have told their children where babies come from, some parents tell them that a stork delivers the baby (almost like a package), often in a basket. You could call it an old myth, I guess
This movie made me sad as a child, seeing how she was only protecting her child from a bully she got caged. As a mum, now I cry at her, reaching for her baby in the cage.
I believe this is one of the animated films by Disney in their canon that didn’t go beyond the 70-minute mark to count as a full-length feature film (at least to Oscar standards).
So glad you liked this one. There is so much convoluted BS surrounding this movie, with everybody yelling about the crows being offensive and so on and so forth, but it's one of my personal favorites. Sure, it's very much of its time, but it's still one of the best movies Disney has ever made - everybody screaming themselves hoarse about it should just calm down and actually watch the thing; they'd soon see there's nothing wrong with it.
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I think the mouse was crying because of the entire situation. That Jumbo is this sweet beautiful creature who’s is being bullied for no reason except something he was born with and can’t change. What’s worse that he was taken away from his mother and not even having any other elephant to live or comfort.
The entire relationship between the mom and jumbo makes me cry every time
Just so you know, Nick. Dumbo is Disney’s 4th film and 4th animated film. The first 3 were Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Fantasia
I love this film it's so amazing thanks for uploading this video Nickflix 👍👍👍👍👍
Fun Fact: Jumbo was the Barnum and Bailey (circus the Greatest Showman is based on) elephant.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK WITH YOUR REACTIONS VIDEOS… CLEARLY IT MAKES OUR DAY WITH SMILES, LAUGHTER , AND FEELINGS. ❤️
Nickflix: M gonna watch Dumbo today!
Me: Oh great, so we're gonna cry today....? 😂😭
That "Pink Elephants 🐘 On Parade" tune is supposed to be indicative of being drunk 🥴🙄😒😑🙃. In fact, here in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the was a nightclub at the "Hotel Barnum" called the "Pink Elephant", which had pink upholstered chairs, pink tables, napkins, and flooring, plus images of frosted elephants 🐘 on the mirrored walls. My father used to be a singer there in the 1940's, and in "The Arcade" downtown, are black and white photographs of the inside. Unfortunately, that gorgeous club is long gone, and the once glorious "Hotel Barnum" is currently a low-income housing project... 🤔
Fun Fact: Its success was such that Time Magazine originally planned to feature Dumbo on the cover of its December 8, 1941 issue honoring him as "Mammal of the Year." Unfortunately, the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7 postponed it (it would later be published on December 29 later that year).
This was one of my favorite cartoons when I was little. I really connected with Dumbo and his mom. The pink elephants scared me silly, but now it’s one of my favorite scenes. So creative!
Watching your reactions to classic Disney movies is so refreshing.
There’s a Dumbo ride located in Fantasy Land at Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Orlando,Florida. It’s always been my favorite ride at Magic Kingdom. I’ve ridden it every single time I went to Disney World.
The pink elephants on parade sequence scared me when I was a kid. Now I can see its basically an acid trip the animators went on. I'm surprised you didn't like the songs. "Baby of Mine" and "When I See an Elephant Fly" are two iconic Disney songs.
This came out in 1941, the depiction of the circus arriving is pretty accurate, as is the treatment of Dumbos mother sadly. Its likely that IRL his mother would've been killed rather than just locked up.
Different times.. 😢
I remember being very connected to the Lullaby Baby Mine and hearing it as an adult makes me cry so much because it reminded me of how much my Mother would sing it to me as a child, which makes me more sadder because I don’t have a not so good relationship with her now (we still see eachother but it’s now different) and every time I was sad I would always hum the Lullaby
Disney’s very first animated feature film was Snow White And the Seven Dwarfs. That movie came out in 1937. So Dumbo came out a year after Pinocchio and Fantasia.