

One night, he and Timothy inadvertently become intoxicated on champagne, and the next morning Dumbo wakes up in a tree. Dumbo’s clumsiness causes the big top to collapse, however, and he is thereafter forced to perform with the clowns. Still an outcast, Dumbo becomes friends with a mouse named Timothy, who persuades the ringmaster to showcase the young elephant in a circus act. When a boy at the circus pulls on his ears, Dumbo’s protective mother spanks the child and, as a result, is separated from the rest of the animals. The film centres on Dumbo, a baby circus elephant who is constantly taunted by other animals because of his abnormally large ears. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!ĭumbo, American animated musical film, released in 1941, that was produced by Walt Disney and was based on a children’s book of the same name written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.
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