
Dumbo
Year: 1941
Running Time: 64 Minutes
Main Characters: Dumbo (Jumbo Jr.), Timothy Q. Mouse, Mrs Dumbo, The Ringmaster, Casey Junior
Starring: Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, Margaret Wright, Sterling Holloway, Cliff Edwards
Directed: Ben Sharpsteen
Based on: the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book")
Written By: Otto Englander, Joe Grant, d**k Huemer
Animators: Bill Tytla
Composer: Frank Churchill, Oliver Wallace
Budget: $813,000
Other Facts: Dumbo was made to recoup the financial losses of Fantasia.
• Dumbo, along with Alice in Wonderland were the first of Disney's canon of animated films to be released on home video.
• In The Great Mouse Detective, a bubble-blowing Dumbo toy can be seen
• Nominated and won an oscar, 1941