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Reception

On the article, it says, "As a result, Dumbo lacks the lavish detail of the previous three Disney animated features (Fantasia, Pinocchio, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs): character designs are simpler, background paintings are less detailed, and a number of held cels (or frames) were used in the character animation." It is the last sentence I don't quite understand. "..., and a number of held cels (or frames) were used in the character animation."What number? A lower number?A higher number?Anyone know? 193.217.195.200 (talk) 13:48, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You're ALL wrong! For one thing, Fantasia is NOT experimental, it's a normal movie just like Dumbo and Bambi. 67.167.58.37 (talk) 19:17, 5 August 2006

The whole article needs to more specifically call out sources for its claims, but some of the material is in particular need. Trivia and "Release: Reactions & criticisms" are such cases. Especially the section in "Reception" on the crows and the work song need to be sourced and carefully screened for POV, as these are topics on which the modern POV is highly charged, and yet were not even controversial at the time. We must take care to clarify what aspects of the film were criticized when, and by whom. Harmil 16:39, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have added an external link to an interesting article about racial stereotypes in Dumbo and The Jungle Book. I hope this will help enhance the Reactions & criticisms section quality, as this is a much detailed and pretty neutral article. Fresh Mike 14:18, 7 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia qualm

The trivia section mentions the "pink elephant" scene as being the first instance of a surreaslist kind of scene, which is all well and good, but I was under the impression that this scene was written by Salvador Dalí, much like the dream sequence from Spellbound. Thaddius 02:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Much of the Trivia section needs to be integrated into the article. Some of it is alreay in the article and should be deleted. 86.17.163.37 18:02, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

- On the overlong trivia list, you can help by just picking one item and either referencing it, integrating it into the body of the article, pushing back by putting a {{fact}} tag on it, or moving the item to the talk page so it will be preserved here before fading away completely. You know you can, you know you can! Buddhipriya 06:52, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Qustion

I noticed the cast section, and it says Pinto Colvig voiced Dumbo. Is that true? If not, can I remove it? TobytheTramEngine (talk) 15:51, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think Colvig voiced Dumbo as Dumbo has no spoken dialoge, I think it's OK to remove it. 66.217.128.3 (talk) 22:35, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Acording to the main article on Pinto Colvig, he was born on September 11, 1892, which means he would be 49 in 1941, plus Dumbo had no dialoge, so I removed it. Also, acording to the article on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, it says he voiced Sneezy and Grumpy. 68.220.162.180 (talk) 21:14, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Running time

This articles continually notes that Dumbo has a 64 minute running time.However, the DVD packaging lists a 61 minute approx running time, and on playing the DVD, I noted the film lasted 61 minutes 10 seconds. Why does this article claim the film lasts 64 minutes? Steve1138 (talk) 20:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure? I've seen the film but it ran 63 minutes. TobytheTramEngine (talk) 21:31, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You probably saw a PAL version, because of the 61 minute running time. Gabrielkat (talk) 16:04, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That explains it - it was a UK DVD. Which is the "correct" running time? If it was being projected on film, for example, what would the running time be? Steve1138 (talk) 20:47, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think the correct time is 64 minutes.70.146.241.244 (talk) 16:28, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stop!

Don't add phony anniversary editions to releases, anymore. I believe it doesn't matter if a film doesn't come out to home video just for an anniversary. TobytheTramEngine (talk) 16:48, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit warring

Several IPs have been involved in an edit warring, please discuss the issue here rather then reverting rollback edits. Otherwise, the page will be locked--JForget 01:06, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Locking might be good. Both of this IP edits are coming from a well known sock puppet, User:Skymac207, who has been doing this across Disney articles for months. He's been blocked as user, but continues this stuff as an IP since they are so far only being temp blocked. [[::User:Collectonian|Collectonian]] ([[::User talk:Collectonian|talk]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Collectonian|contribs]]) 01:12, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

Done It has been locked for one week. JForget 12:41, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Verna Felton

There's an inconsistency about which character Verna Felton voiced. In Production it's noted that she voiced 'the pompous matriarch of the elephants' and in the Cast and characters it's Mrs. Jumbo. 85.250.108.202 (talk) 06:19, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]