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SUBC The circus in its winter quarters in Florida, where Dumbo'smoother anxiously awaits the arrival of-her baby. The Ring- mas t e r — left, Her- man Bing, who pro- vided his voice. phants gaze on the baby. Right: Verna Felton. “DUMBO” Walt Disney's Flying Elephant “ T^UMBO ” was the third rull-length pro- duction that Walt Disney has- given us. It was also the first in which Disney and his staff did not have to worry about treading on other people’s corns. “ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ” and “ Pinocchio ” were both well-loved fairy tales and Disney and his staff were more or less tied by book illus- trators and by the authors' descriptions of the characters in them. “ Dumbo,” however, was bought in manuscript form before it was published, so Walt Disney and his staff used their imaginations unfettered. Originally it was purchased to make a “ short." But the pathetic little elephant with the big ears made everyone engaged on the original so en- thusiastic about making him the hero of adventures that would last an hour and a half that eventually a full-length “ Dumbo " was decided on. Td give voices to the characters in “ Dumbo,” actors were picked from both screen and radio. Cliff (" Ukelele Ike ”) Edwards returned to the studio, where he had previously gone for “ Pinocchio,” to give Jiminy Cricket a voice. This time he was the leader of the five disreputable black crows who helped Dumbo to fly. Edward Brophy was Timothy Mouse’s voice. Herman Bing, well known for his reverberating “ r’s ” and excited character studies on the screen, was the ring- master, and Sterling Holloway the stork. And well known to American wireless j listeners was Verna Felton the voice of the L \ matriarch elephant. & H Dumbo did not speak from the begin- / |\ ning to the end of the picture. He / \ was a true pantomime star. / l i m o t h y Mouse, Dum- bo's perky little friend. Right: Ed- ward Brophy, his voice. Edwards. Dumbo’s trial flight —c latching the " magic ” feather. Dumbo's degrada- tion — his appear- ance as the “ baby in the burning house ”—the climax of the clowns’ act in the circus. The stork messenger catches up the train taking the animals from Florida, to present Mrs. fumbo with her baby. Right : Sterling Holloway, recording his lines as the stork’s voice. Those who have seen him on the screen will realise how cleverly the whole stork character resembles him. 142