Along with animated films like Bambi and Fantasia, Disney premiered Dumbo in the 1940s, starting a legacy of beloved animated films. This movie included lovable characters like Dumbo, his mother, and ...

Originally based on the book written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, 1941's Dumbo was the fourth animated feature film made by Walt Disney Productions, following up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ...

Tim Burton’s live-action “Dumbo” launches March 29, a remake of the Disney classic that opened Oct. 23, 1941. That film is remembered as one of Disney’s shortest (64 minutes) and sweetest. It should ...

In 1941, Walt Disney was at a crossroads, breaking box office records with his first feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937), but losing money on both “Pinocchio” (1940) and “Fantasia” (1940) ...

Tim Burton’s done it before and it paid off handsomely. The “it” is direct a live-action version for Disney of an early Disney animated feature. “Alice in Wonderland” (1951) became “Alice in ...

The animators wanted to join the Screen Cartoonists Guild, a move Walt Disney resisted. Workers staged a walkout, and on July 9, 1941, Variety reported, “There was the added charge that subversive and ...