Word: dumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever-scampering feet they could, with fine comic efficiency, show the state of his emotions. The history of animation from the Mouse's introduction in 1928's Steamboat Willie to the apotheosis of the high Disney style in such features as Snow White and Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi, roughly a decade later, can be seen as a process in which movement became subtler and more complex, with a parallel growth in the expressive range of the studio's "stars." The animators learned to incorporate tragedy (the panic of a lost boy in Pinocchio, the death of Bambi...