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For the Brooklyn, New York City, neighborhood, see DUMBO.
Dumbo statue at a Toronto Disney Store Dumbo (first released on October 23, 1941) is an animated film, produced by Walt Disney. The main character is Jumbo Jr., an anthropomorphic elephant who is cruelly nicknamed Dumbo. He is ridiculed for his big ears, but it turns out that he is capable of flying by using them as wings. His only friend is the mouse Timothy.
None of the voice actors for Dumbo received screen credit, but Timothy Mouse who befriended even Dumbo in his darkest days and was instrumental in helping him find greatness within himself, was voiced by Edward Brophy, who has no other known voice credits or other toon connection.
Voice actors include the perennial Sterling Holloway in a cameo role as Mr. Stork, and Cliff Edwards, better known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket, as Jim Crow, the ringleader of a raucous crowd of crows.
When Timothy Q. Mouse falls into a vat of hooch, the "Pink Elephants on Parade" drunk sequence that follows is quite hallucinatory, surreal, and widely considered a classic of animation.
Leonard Maltin, the author of the book The Disney Films, has called Dumbo his favorite Disney film of all time.
The film also received another distinction of note in 1980, when it was the first of Disney's canon of animated films to be released on home video.
Dumbo also made a cameo appearence in the 2002 video game Kingdom Hearts as a summonable character to assist in battle.
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