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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!

…we talked about with him! Animated Views: You’re known as a big Disney classic fan and, as we can see it in Up, there are some visual connections with Dumbo,…

The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition

…shut on these types of DTVs, as well as leading to the abandonment of further titles which, as actual follow-up stories, sounded quite fun: Dumbo and friends being lost in…

The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane

…think he might have felt about the sequels the Studio is currently releasing; there was another Peter Pan last year, and they have a Dumbo and a Bambi lined up……

A tribute to X. Atencio

…XA : With Woolie, I did Pinocchio, and then we went from that to Dumbo. On Pinocchio, I worked on Monstro the whale. I remember that we were very particular…

Winnie The Pooh

…to finding the initial concepts for Dumbo and AristoCats follow-ups intriguing, but it was right that the unit was shuttered. The second thing Lasseter scored with, in a much bigger…

Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2

…Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty, and Tinkerbell; Frank (Thomas) and Ollie Johnson, who did Dumbo, and Bambi, and Fantasia… they all told me of viewing the Puppetoons, how they influenced their…

The AristoCats: Special Edition

…And The Tramp some fifteen years before, making it, by my count, only the third Studio-generated concept after Dumbo, and the last until the mighty roar of The Lion King,…

The Lion King is now Disney’s biggest remake ever

…a huge success with more than $350 million in the magic lamp to date. Even Dumbo, which got a mixed response from reviewers and filmgoers, still managed to fly past…

The Lion King: Diamond Edition

…it sticks to the tried and tested formula that good will always win out over evil. Simba is a likable hero, the sidekicks – perhaps Disney’s best since Dumbo’s crows…

Simba roars mighty as The Lion King makes the record books

…knows how to dominate the theatrical marketplace like them (they can more than afford Dumbo’s somewhat underwhelming performance back in March), and they still have Frozen II and Star Wars:…

Up: 3D Edition

…little short is not hysterical but quietly amusing nonetheless. A clear influence from Pixar favorite Dumbo is the character of a baby-delivering Stork who always seems to land the tough…

Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)

…the best of them. The film after Beauty, Aladdin would become their knockabout comedy counterpart to Dumbo, while The Lion King’s circle of life obviously owes much to Bambi’s naturalistic…

Maleficent fails to conjure up box office spell

…take of $36.9 million, which is roughly half of what the original Maleficent opened to in 2014. The opening was also lower than that of the studio’s Dumbo remake from…

Allers & Minkoff: The Legacy of The Lion King

…to Dumbo (1941). For roughly the next three decades, the studio made masterpieces that delighted the kid in every adult. But on December 15, 1966, the unthinkable happened: the “Old…

Bambi II: Special Edition

…The Wings, Prep & Landing’s new outing, Dumbo, Disneynature’s African Cats, Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (exactly the kind of mid-quel that gave the DTVs a bad name),…

Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle

…in the 1930s (Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, etc.) and 1990s (Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King). I knew from day one that Joe Grant would…

Cinderella: Diamond Edition

…up to the hope of matching or beating Snow White’s phenomenal run and Fantasia, originally a road show presentation, would take years to recoup its investment. Dumbo had proven a…

The Emperor’s New Groove: 2-Movie Collection

…wound up surprising both audiences and the Studio alike. More akin, if we look back on Disney’s history, to the kind of knockabout cartoons such as Dumbo, The Jungle Book,…

Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2

…influence from Pixar crew favorite Dumbo is the character of a baby-delivering Stork who always seems to land the tough jobs, having to fly down not so much with bundles…

Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music

…full-length feature films such as Dumbo, Bambi and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. The Silly Symphonies Collection is available to order from Amazon.com! Our warmest thanks to Mark Watters….

Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection

…the way of the bright escapism that the later Dumbo would offer as a way to take minds away from those growing threats. Although the perceived failure of the film…

Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection

…for their needs, and creating a true fairytale classic that could stand with the best of them. The film after Beauty, Aladdin, would become their knockabout comedy counterpart to Dumbo,…

The Walt Disney Studios: A Lot To Remember

…Burton’s in-development Dumbo) to the films of the 1990s renaissance (the upcoming Beauty And The Beast and an Aladdin spin-off). In lieu of this, and consistently serving up the goods,…

The Jungle Book

…of its animated classics. By turns diverting wildly from the source material (Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, the director also has a Dumbo in development) and sticking too closely to…

How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote (twice) as he pleased…

…magic, and their groundbreaking styles influenced such classics as Dumbo and Bambi, and shaped the masterpieces that followed, including Alice In Wonderland and Peter Pan. They Drew As They Pleased:…

Disney wows with surprise Lion King teaser trailer

…above. The film is one of a trio of live-action remakes of animated classics the studio has set for next year, with the other two being Dumbo and Aladdin. Of…

Captain Marvel blasts off as Dragon stays in the sky

…a lot bigger than expected), the following week brings the much buzzed horror film Us, and Disney’s own Dumbo–which has received a strong marketing campaign–is set to fly into theaters…

UPDATED: Aladdin flies to a whole new world at box office

…will have overcome the entire box office gross of Dumbo. Also, as was reported here earlier, Avengers: Endgame crossed the $800 million mark today, becoming only the second movie in…

The Good Dinosaur

…run a “farm” that could have come ripped right from an old John Ford picture. These earlier scenes where Arlo hatches from his egg may recall Dumbo or Bambi for…

How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…

…got his personality, when Donald Duck was created, when Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs came to life, when the Disney Studio created Pinocchio, Fantasia, Bambi and Dumbo, when it…