Dumbo Color Model Animation Drawings Group of 4 (Walt Disney, 1941)

Name: Dumbo Color Model Animation Drawings Group of 4 (Walt Disney, 1941)
Brand: The Cricket Gallery
Price: 1295.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$1,295.00

Dumbo Color Model Animation Drawings Group of 4 (Walt Disney, 1941). "Hey, what kind of water is this anyhow". A terrific set of four color model drawings from the scene where Dumbo drinks the alcohol-laced water in an effort to cure his hiccups. Each drawing is on 12 field 5-peghole animation paper. Two are of Dumbo getting ready to blow a bubble and two are effects drawings of bubbles. Graphite with red and blue pencil highlights, each drawing is stamped "Color Model - Return to Color Department" and there is a production stamp (filled in with all details) in bottom right corner. This is an adorable pose, and with only minor handling, is in Fine condition. From the Elmer Plummer Archives. Certificate of Authenticity from The Cricket Gallery.

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth Disney animated feature film, it is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney 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", as in "dumb". 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.

Dumbo was released on October 23, 1941; made to recoup the financial losses of both Pinocchio and Fantasia, it was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studio. 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.

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"