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...thus long on power and short on freight space. But planes are on the way. Douglas, besides turning out the veteran DC-35, is also producing the C-54, a four-engined mon ster with a payload of ten tons. Curtiss is turning out the powerful two-engined Commando ("Dumbo" to airmen) which made the mass flight to India...
Combining actual color glimpses of South America with the cartoons, the picture is divided into four sequences. The first concerns tourist Donald Duck, camera in hand, clumsily cavorting around Peru. The second, Dumbo-like in organization, is the fable of a little mail-plane, Pedro, which has to fly over the Chilean Andes alone because his mother and father can't go. In the third, make-lead Goofy is whisked from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American...
...would abolish the burden of debt on his peasantry. He invited foreign friends to a durbar to celebrate. They found the Maharaja held virtually incommunicado by his ministers. Hundreds of village chieftains waited patiently for him. So did huge ceremonial elephants, with painted toenails and hats like those of Dumbo's mother. When the Maharaja finally showed up, his Magna Charta looked greatly altered. His ministers looked smug...
...Songwriters Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace for the best scoring of a musical picture in Walt Disney's Dumbo. Churchill had failed to equal his earlier Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? and Heigh Ho, but had turned out three pleasant tunes-Baby Mine, Casey Junior, Look Out for Mister Stork. Wallace's best number was When I See an Elephant...
...give up plans to make Dumbo a modern Yankee Doodle...