
Dumbo is an American animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions and premiered on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures. Sound was recorded conventionally using the RCA System. One voice was synthesized using the Sonovox system, but it, too, was recorded using the RCA System.
Dumbo, the fourth animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book"). The main character is Jumbo Jr., a semi-anthropomorphic elephant who is cruelly nicknamed "Dumbo". He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using his ears as wings. Throughout most of the film, his only true friend, aside from his mother, is the mouse, Timothy – a relationship parodying the stereotypical animosity between mice and elephants.
Made to recoup the financial losses of both Pinocchio and Fantasia, Dumbo was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studios. At 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features. Sound was recorded conventionally using the RCA System. One voice was synthesized using the Sonovox system, but it, too, was recorded using the RCA System.
Dumbo was released on October 23, 1941, where it was met with generally favorable reviews. However, it has also been criticized for racist stereotyping of black people. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically and aesthetically significant".
A live-action adaptation of the film directed by Tim Burton was released on March 29, 2019, though it was neither critically nor commercially successful.
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Image | Character | USA | Arg | Jap | Bra | Mex | Jap(NHK) | Jap(SV) | Bra(1973) | Bra(1998) | Ger | Fra | Swe | Fin | Nor | Den | Gree | Ukr | Ice | Ser | Russ | Spa(Catalan) | Por | Swe(1996) | Isr | Taiw |
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Dumbo | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Timothy Q. Mouse | Edward Brophy | Pablo Palitos | Mita Matsugorō | João de Barro | Luis Bayardo | Inoue Jun | Shigeru Ushiyama | Ênio Santos | Sérgio Stern | Andreas Mannkopff | Roger Carel | Matti Olavi Ranin | Øivind Blunck | Jesper Klein | Spíros Bibílas | Oleksandr Zaval's'kyy | Jóhann G. Jóhannsson | Dubravko Jovanović | Sergey Chikhachyov | Óscar Muñoz | João Brás | Anders Öjebo | Avi Hadash | Yu Zhengsheng | ||
Mr. Stork | Sterling Holloway | Miguel GómezBao | Francisco Colmenero | Tokio Seki | Cauê Filho | Marcelo Coutinho | Wilfried Herbst | Jacques Ferrière | Hans Lindgren | Tom Pöysti | Harald Mæle | Claus Ryskjær | Vasilis Kailas | Aleksey Ivashchenko | ||||||||||||
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Ringmaster | Herman Bing | Osamu Saka | Xavier deSouza | Juan DomingoMéndez | Shūichirō Moriyama | Minoru Uchida | Luís Motta | Orlando Drummond | Gerd Holtenau | Jacques Dynam | Seppo Pääkkönen | Harald Mæle | Poul Bundgaard | Tásos Kostís | Maksym Kondratyuk | Magnús Ólafsson | Marko Marković | Aleksey Borzunov | Jordi Vila | José Nobre | Ingemar Carlehed | Shimon Cohen | Guān Zhì-Hóng | ||
Mrs. Jumbo | Verna Felton | Selma Lopes | Telma da Costa | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elephant Matriarch | Verna Felton | Baby Correa | Reiko Seno | Sarah Nobre | Carmen Donna-Dío | Kiyoko Tange | Kubota Tamie | Estelita Bell | Mariangela Cantú | Inge Wolffberg | Paula Dehelly | Maija-Liisa Peuhu | Kari-Ann Grønsund | Kirsten Rolffes | Vína Papadopoúlou | Olena Blinnikova | Edda Heiðrún Backman | Mariana Aranđelović | Lyubov' Rudenko | Gloria Roig | Cucha Carvalheiro | Monica Forsberg | Shafrira Zakai | Chén Měi-Zhēn | |
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Elephant Prissy | Sarah Selby | Norma Castillo | Kazue Komiya | Yara Jordão | Maruja Sen | Miyoko Asō | Mika Doi | Ida Gomes | Selma Lopes | Edith Hancke | Béatrice Delfe | Terhi Panula | Guri Schanke | Louḯza Mitsákou | Olena Uzlyuk | Sigrún Waage | Jelena ĐorđevićPopović | Zinaida Andreyeva | Teresa Soler | Isabel Ribas | Christel Körner | Ruti Holtzman | |||
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Elephant Catty | Noreen Gammill | Norma Castillo | María Santander | Myriam Thereza | Andrea Murucci | Titta Jokinen | Lillian Barreto | ||||||||||||||||||
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Elephant Giddy | Dorothy Scott | Blanca De Castejón | Amparo Garrido | Therezinha Moreira | Mabel Cezar | Liisa Paatso | |||||||||||||||||||
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Jim/Dandy Crow | Cliff Edwards | Romualdo Tirado | Masahiro Anzai | Grande Otelo | Florencio Castelló | Tadashi Yamazaki | Nomura Ryuichi | Francisco Milani | Cláudio Galvan | Hans Nitschke | Jacques Balutin | Veeti Kallio | Anders Hatlo | Flemming Enevold | Yiánnis Stefópoulos | Maksym Kondratyuk | Jóhann Sigurðarson | Dimitrije Ilić | Yuriy Mazikhin | Eduard Doncos | Pedro Pereira | Lars Kronér | Aryeh Moskona | Li Xiang-Sheng | |
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Fats Crow | James Baskett | Julio Abadía | Kankō Nagai | F. Menezes | Francisco Colmenero | Junpei Takiguchi | Kataoka Kōki | "Miltinho"Milton LimadosSantos | Márcio Seixas | Erich Fielder | Pierre Garin | Sasu Moilanen | Ivar Nørve | Ulf Pilgaard | Yiόryos Konstántzos | Oleksiy Rad'ko | Pétur Örn Guðmundsson | Marko Marković | Anatoliy Blednyy | Jaume Mallofre | Paulo Ramos | Johan Hedenberg | Ami Mandelman | ||
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Glasses/Specks Crow | Nick Stewart | Tetsuya Yamazaki | Jararaca | Edmundo Santos | Yasushi Suzuki | Hashimoto Sanai | Orlando Drummond | Clécio Souto | Siegfried Dornbusch | Serge Lhorca | Jarkko Tamminen | Ivar Nørve | Jess Ingerslev | Aryíris Pavlídis | Oleksandr Pohrebnyak | Hjálmar Hjálmarsson | Vladan Milić | Nikita Prozorovskiy | Antoni Forteza | Paulo Martins | Johan Pihleke | Shimon Cohen | |||
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Straw Hat/Dopey Crow | Jim Carmichael | Bin Shamada | Ratinho | Tadashi Yamazaki | Kei Yoshimizu | Antônio Patiño | Isaac Schneider | Hans SchwarzJr. | Francis Lax | Sami Saari | Harald Mæle | Claus Ryskjær | Vasilis Kailas | Mykhaylo Voychuk | Örn Árnason | Srđan Jovanović | Valeriy Yaromenko | Joaquim "Quim" Roca | Mário Marta | Ken Wennerholm | Yuval Dor | ||||
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Preacher/Deacon Crow | Hall Johnson | Vicente Padula | Hiroshi Izawa | F. Coelho | Roberto Espriú | Hiroshi Ôtake | Yūichi Nakamura | Mário Monjardim | Guilherme Briggs | Claus Jurichs | Michel Bedetti | Gunnar Ernblad | Veeti & The Velvets | Anders Hatlo | Jørgen Petersen | Tilémachos Kreváikas | Volodymyr Kokotunov | Sigurður Sigurjónsson | Dubravko Jovanović | Aleksandr Bykov | Carlos Di Blasi | Pedro Gonçalves | Göran Rudbo | Shlomi Ben Ami | |
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Casey Junior | Margaret Wright | Arturo Mercado | Francis Lax | Markus Degerman | Anders Hatlo | Carlos Freixo | Anders Öjebo | ||||||||||||||||||
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Skinny | Malcolm Hutton | "Semillita" | Jarkko Tamminen | Lillian Barreto | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Clown 1 | Billy Bletcher | Lucio Villegas | Ryûji Saikachi | Fernando Estenoz | Waldir Fiori | Luiz Feier Motta | Harry Wüstenhagen | Serge Lhorca | Gunnar Ernblad | Anders Hatlo | Claus Ryskjær | Carlos Freixo | |||||||||||||
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Clown 2 | Billy Sheets | Arturo Mercado | Antônio Patiño | Manolo Rey | Gunnar Ernblad | Harald Mæle | |||||||||||||||||||
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Clown 3 | Francisco Colmenero | Antônio Patiño | Manolo Rey | Wilfried Herbst | Gunnar Ernblad | Ivar Nørve | |||||||||||||||||||
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Clown 4 | Francisco Colmenero | Francisco Milani | Samir Murad | Gunnar Ernblad | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Clown 5 | José Manuel Rosano | Orlando Drummond | Carlos Seidl | Gunnar Ernblad | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Lion | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Narrator | John McLeish | José Manuel Rosano | Pekka Lehtosaari (Opening)
Veikko Honkanen (Newspaper titles) |
Anders Hatlo | Jordi Royo | Carlos Freixo | |||||||||||||||||||
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