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...Dumbo (Dumbo, Timothy Q. Mouse, Casey Jr., Jim Crow; TIME...
...just stand there and maybe grab my hand and cry. ... I tried to put all those things in Dumbo." Tough little Timothy Q. (for nothing) Mouse, Dumbo's wise-guy protector, was sired in much the same way by impish Artist Fred Moore. Says he: "The greatest problem with Timothy was not to make him too cute. We had to get a tough guy with a big heart. ... I just played around with him . . . had him walk a couple of dozen steps in 12 frames, then in eight . . . until I got just the right cockiness to it. ... When...
...four expensive full-length features, only Snow White was really making money.* He had to trim his sails, give up his costly epics. He began paring his staff of 1,181 employes to a basic 450, and a long and acrimonious strike hit him. As a result he left Dumbo to his staff, for the most part played critic, suggesting sensitive little touches here & there...
When Disney quit his stricken plant, his fiscal worries, and sailed for South America last summer ("At that point I would have gone to China to get away from it all"), Dumbo, though nearly finished, was no ray of light on his horizon...
...Dumbo has yet to be drafted, but his number is about up. The little fellow's good fortune has not only served to restore Disneymen's faith in themselves as artists, he has also rekindled the light in Disney's eye. He didn't cost much ($600,000), and he is expected to gross almost as much as Snow White did in the U.S. He may get his boss out of debt, and he has once again proved to him that, in cartooning, personality is the thing...