Dumbo 70th Anniversary Edition is now available to own on Bluray!! The scene in Dumbo in which Dumbo and Timothy have dreams of Pink elephants from being drunk. Comment, rate, and subscribe!! I OWN NOTHING!
It did! The part where the elephants march around the edge of the screen, especially, was EXTREMELY revolutionary at the time. No one had ever seen anything like it. It's a famously new and creative use of the medium.
I remember watching this as a kid and being all creeped out. Meanwhile, my dad's just like "I don't know what Dumbo and that rat were drinking or how strong it was, but I want some."
Actually, it has a good point. Somehow, Dumbo has to decide to fly. If he wasn't boozed up, he probably wouldn't have gotten the idea that he could fly away from the hallucinations.
I remember when I first watched this with my grandpa when I was 7. He looked at me and said "I used to see pink elephants every Sunday mornin". My innocent mind interpreted what he said as "Pap-Pap watched Dumbo every Sunday" and not "Sarah, Pap-Pap got shitfaced every Saturday night".
I remember being equal parts creeped out and fascinated as a kid. This sequence definitely had a lot to do with making Dumbo a standout movie even if it had nothing to do with the plot. I wish there was a feature available that had the animators talking about drawing and putting together that scene. What the idea was, what they were trying to create, how it came to life, etc. Bc these guys absolutely made history here and it must have been a special experience.
Actually the lyrics are this: ¿Quién es? ¿Quién va? Ya empiezan a desfilar, viene y van mira qué saltos dan Serán quizá parientes de satanás Ya están, ahí Entorno a la cama van al revés como acrobatas Terror me dan me quieren enloquecer Qué voy a hacer, Qué voy a hacer Ya no me puedo embriagar Al que abusa del licor se le aparece una visión son elefantes en color que espantan y dan terror Yo que al diablo desafié y que la cola le arrranqué los paquidermos tricolor han hecho que pierda mi gran valor ayy que horror Déjenme en paz no puedo más ya se van, ya se van las ánimas del terrooooor Las ánimas..... Las ánimas...Las ánimas
Can we just talk about how beautiful 2:54 is especially? The contrasting bright pink, cream white, and light olive green all manage to compliment each other perfectly. Disney, HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO MAKE THOSE COLORS WORK?!
Red and Green are complimentary colors, situated across from each other on the color wheel. The colors used in the scene were basically red and green with the addition of white, simply making more muted, lighter tones based on red and green, allowing them to still work together. Taking absolutely nothing away from your point however, as the scene is gorgeously animated, especially considering how consistent the lighting was for both the overhead pink tones, and the underneath greens. The use of negative space throughout the later scenes was also fantastic!
@@markclifton859 For this sequence the animators drew the entire elephant, drew where an overhead and floor lights would produce highlights, then removed the elephant??? Perhaps a photographic process separated the colors.
Maybe they were just trying to show off their animation skills here. Disney's saying, "Look at how much more fluent this animation is compared to Snow White"
Beginning of LSD. You figure this was made in the 40s/50s or older? Not sure exact without looking. But if older then 50s... It would be heroine. Wizard of Oz cast was fucked up on that shit lol. Especially Dorthy. But this is nothing compared to Yellow Submarine(the Beatles cartoon) far as trip effects, but still great.
This was my favorite part of the movie when I was little. Three year old me thought this was HYSTERICAL. I'd always laugh so hard whenever this scene came on, and I would always beg my mom to replay it over and over again on the old VHS I had.
I found it to be alluring, as it awakened some fetishes within me. I recall rewinding the tape so much just for the belly dancer part that the tape itself broke 😂
This is weird because not many alcoholic drinks can give you hallucinations and Dumbo was clearly drinking champagne in the scene prior which isn't a drink known to cause hallucinations
This is my favorite scene from any movie made by Walt Disney. I can’t get over how freakin cool it is! Even more than 80 years later, it’s still a freakin masterpiece. :)
I'm not a huge Dumbo fan, but this scene. Man! Absolutely fantastic. The music, the animation. Nothing nowadays could top this. This was all drawn by hand. No computers or cgi back then. Its amazing.
My dad is 87 years old and he was 10 when this movie was released, so I told him that a live-action remake is in production. He said: If I don't see a proper pink elephants scene, that movie will be bullshit!
There's a lot of comments about how people found this creepy when they watched it as children, and I can see how that would be, but I also think that we should really talk more about how creative and impressive this sequence is. Like damn, this came out in the 40s? The animators at Disney must have been very skilled.
They were truly pioneers, inventing new technologies to create art that human eyes could have never seen. I think the psychedelic aspects are also ahead of their time. Some of this imagery is ripped straight out of the mainstream from a quarter century in the future.
Hand drawn animation tends to hold up very well as an art form since it’s advanced as much as it reasonably can. Unlike newer technologies that are constantly advancing and becoming obsolete inside a decade. The downside to hand drawn is that it’s also obscenely expensive as you have to have a team of artists going frame by frame. Technology has helped automate the process somewhat with key frames but again there’s only so much you can do before you loose the hand drawn aesthetic.
This is really a masterclass in animation. And for how old this scene is, and for how amazing it still looks. Especially 2:53 and on, just amazing for this scene being older than my grandparents
Same ! When I was a kid I couldn’t wait for this scene to be over since this scene use to scare the living crap out of me . Now I like this scene , and honestly I would choose the original over the live action any day!
For those of you who don't know "seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens. The term dates back to at least the early 20th century, emerging from earlier idioms about snakes and other creatures. An alcoholic character in Jack London's 1913 novel John Barleycorn is said to hallucinate "blue mice and pink elephants".
There is a Belgian brewery called Huyghe! They have a brew called delirium tremens, on the bottle there is a pink elephant. Thanks for the information!!!!
The eye on the pyramid in the dollar bill was put there in 1935 The movie Dumbo came out in 1941 The Twilight show came out in 1959 So Dumbo couldn't have reference the Twilight Zone if anything both Dumbo and the Twilight Zone referenced the eye of Ra aka the all seeing eye of lucifer on the pyramid on the 1 dollar bill. or it could just be a confidence There is also the third eye 👁️ that people claim is opened when they do psychedelic drugs. So it can just be that But the 3rd might actually what the Epyptians we're referring to when they venerated the eye of god, the pagan sun god Ra. Later on known as the eye of Horus. Alester Crowley said I'm his book, that Horus pecks out the eyes of Jesus. So Horus isn't exactly a nice guy. at least not in the Occult world of mythology. Obviously it's all fiction, right?
As a teenager when I re-watched this for the first time in years I noticed something about that man made out of elephant heads. The one in the groin area doesn't have a trunk 😂. I can picture Disney watching the animators as they drew the frames back in the late thirties and 1940 and he saw one of the animators had originally drawn it with a trunk and said "Whoop! We can't use that!" 🤣😂🤣😂
There was a reason for that Kids were gonna watch this, and I mean young kids So if he actually made that scene in the remake creepy and disturbing You'll probally see some kids crying or covering their eyes because they were scared
copying is not "doing justice". whats the point of a remake without handdrawn animations if you just redo the thing with ppl? I think they paid homage to this scene in a tasteful way with some subdued melodies without upsetting the pace of the remake with this old school acid vibe this here had. hell, they could have tried to redo this, but it would never have been as creative and authentic, so Im glad they didnt even try
I mean yeah Although acid didn’t exist yet But it’s shockingly similar nontheless Edit: yes it was invented but it wouldn’t be introduced to the public for another 6 years
Then that shows you need to watch more movies. Especially if you judge a movie's quality by... weird animation and acid trips, of all things. Rather than, you know, a good plot, likable characters, etc.
Music to eat Froot to Acid wasnt available recreationally until the 60s, it was first synthesized a couple years prior to the making of this movie in europe, and the pink elephants refer to drunken hallucinations
I think this entire saying was to demonstrate what you can do with animation. So much fluidity, something that becomes one thing transforms into another. To a lot of people this is scary of how surreal it is. But this is in all honesty the best demonstration on what you can do with animation. In the span of nearly 5 minutes they show so much
Thanks I hate it. Honestly though, that was Disney at the time. Bambi & similar animated movies had a lot of "animation porn", which nowadays wouldn't really work. This didn't need to be in the movie, this wasn't to advance the plot*, it was to demonstrate the animation. It's pretty, but that doesn't mean it's good (coherently).
LuckoDaStars oh yeah. This is what happens when an animator or animators just let loose and let the imagination run wild and put their skills to the test. After all, Animation is a medium where the limits are literally ones imagination.
Amazing to see those animations come to life even after more than 80 years, just an amazing art flex from Disney animators on this scene, you can actually appreciate the animations, the style, the skill the timing! just amazing, even for today standards !
The way it happens is the animators do a rough storyboard with notes on the mood and hand it to a composer who composes the music to match the energy of each scene. Then the animators have a score that they animate to. There's often times notes from the composer regarding where he thinks a scene needs to be added or changed to make the music flow better. It's a really cool process where the visuals inform the music and the music inspires the life of the visuals
I think it's brilliant that Walt and the others who worked on the movie took the idea of "pink elephants" (alcohol induced hallucinations) and the idea of a group of elephants being referred to as a "parade" to the most literal extreme imaginable: ethereal pink elephants on parade. I love subtle but clever jokes like that.
I'm one of the few that never found this scene creepy as a kid and I still don't. I was always mesmerized by the animation, colors and strange whimsical shapes of the elephants. It's one of my favorite animated segments!
I'm going to cringe if he does because HE would put it in because thats who he is. This scene is just pure disturbing and does not serve any purpose other than drug use.
that's about as psychedelic as any animation I've ever seen. lots of absurd dream symbolism mixed with smooth animation and highly contrasting colors. cool stuff
This was my favorite part of Dumbo! For a while as a kid I barely knew what the ending was like because I'd fast forward to this part and get bored before the movie because the rest of it wasn't nearly as exciting lol
This scene predates the existence of LSD (and the widespread knowledge of hallucinogens in general) by 14 years. Unless the guys at Disney had somehow gained first-hand experience with peyote or psilocybin (unlikely), it seems they're probably remembering "fever nightmares". Before the era of widespread vaccinations, antibiotics and Tylenol, there was no cure for a bad fever other than "sweating it out", which I'm sure anybody alive in 1944 had experienced many times as a child. This often caused dehydration and delirious bad dreams, halfway between a nightmare and a hallucination. Weird how similar the brain operates when you're crossing wires randomly, either with fever or drugs. Those random bursts of color and dancing animals wouldn't be seen by the general population until the hippies discovered lysergic acid diethylamide and turned the angry pink elephants into happy (though oddly shaped) multicolored Grateful Dead bears.
Ok I'm sorry you guys were right. Since writing this comment I have learned more about what goes on in animation studios. It was foolish of me to write a bold and ignorant claim without doing research. My apologies.
this is incredible from an artistic standpoint but it still scares the shit outta me. like the trumpets and the drums getting progressively slower and faster fills me with dread
Oh, they def. tried to scare the kids and adults to some degree (not terrify out of their mind of course): the bottom line was kind-of meant to be "alcohol is a scary drug these are going to be the effects" but in a comedic way. They use a lot of very obvious phobia-elements to emphasize that also noticeable since they put effort into the crisp skin-creeping sound effects and the typical Ghost-type music as well. Back then Disney was a lot less family-policed than today. Artists were allowed to have a bit of creative fun and we all grew up perfectly fine too :)
I'm starting to have doubts about the remake cause it says here that it won't have Timothy Mouse or the crows :( www.thisisinsider.com/disney-live-action-remakes-2017-2
oh man knowing that tim burton is apparently making a live action version of this film, knowing his.......artistic methods.........this scene is going to be even more horrifying.
The transportation devices were good, and (except perhaps for the water-skiing) Dumbo from his days at the circus would already be familiar with most of them. Or the pink elephants could have formed a pyramid at the end which Dumbo would jump to the top of, which would echo his motivation to do so in the earlier scene with his anxiety of reaching the top of the elephant pyramid in the actual circus. His failure earlier to soar higher would understandably cause him to have such an image in his dream where he would reach greater heights, which he ultimately did by flying in his sleep.
I remember when i was a kid, we had that channel that kept replaying this movie every sometime, i don't quite remember these stuff it was like 10 years ago, i just mean that i used to watch it over and over at one point of my childhood, and for some reason i was OBSESSED with this scene, i had it downloaded on my mom's phone or smth and kept watching it whenever i was bored And now that I'm somewhat close to being an artist myself, i found that what inspires my art the most is this scene, like, I'm not proud of this but i like to imagine my projects and not actually work on or make them, and whenever i do, it always, ALWAYS looks like this in my head, and i never knew why i imagined things to be this way, until at one random night of my life, i remembered that this exists and here i am! Knowing the answer for all of the nonsense that happens inside my brain, which is really crazy to me and feels quiet good now that I'm an adult who at least knows what the meaning of "inspiration" is
*“ i can stand the sight of worms and look at microscopic germs but Technicolor pachyderms is really too much for me haha ! “* *” i am not the type to faint when things are odd or things are claint but seeing things that you know that aint can certainly give you a awful fright ! “* best part
This is frightening even now. I thought this illustrates Dumbo’s depression. How he felt about humans and other elephants treat him. He and his little friends drunk mind exposes their unconsiousness. So they see same thing. /they felt same pressure/
