![]() And being a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, it has no relevance to the plot and is never mentioned again (well, except for a brief mention by Timothy in the next scene when he is woken up by Dandy Crow, and Dandy mocks him for this), leading to a calmer scene where Dumbo wakes up in a tree, learns to fly and get back at the circus.The climax! The music for the ballet sequence has an eerie calm, but shifts gears abruptly to Latin jazz as the dancing couple suddenly turns into dozens of identical couples - and then the elephants decide to change into vehicles (with sound effects of whirring motors, ringing bells, and so forth) and the black scene flashes pink as they rush like mad, leading to an explosive conclusion leading to the second to last scene.But the lyrics, oh boy: "Chase 'em away! Chase 'em away! I'm afraid! Need your aid! Pink Elephants on Parade!" It's the only non-elephant appearing on screen in the entire segment other than a snake that changes into the belly dancer which dissolves into the eye. ![]() After the belly dancing elephant dissolves a disturbingly realistic eye appears in the middle of the screen, staring back at you."What'll I do? What'll I do? What an unusual view!".Not only are the elephants terrifying, there's hundreds of them! Closer inspection reveal this rectangle is actually some kind of doorway with an unbroken tide of pink elephants swarming through it. When the lyrics come in for the first time, behind the prancing elephants a large pink rectangle can be seen in the background.This is one thing many kids did after watching this movie. The scene where the elephants walk upside down on the ceiling, while another elephant sees them from his bed and then hides himself beneath the blanket from fear.Oh and did we mention that the eyes of these elephant heads have no eyeballs? The scariest thing is when the yellow head and its two blue shoulder heads zoom in to cover the screen, first with the latter shoving the yellow head in the back and finally ending with former emerging with a wide smile. Many kids have jumped away in fear when they saw that thing coming near. One of them is a Combining Mecha made of nothing but elephant heads who walks towards the viewer. Hopping over each other, walking into each other, changing color, growing and shrinking, floating in the air, walking upside down, growing extra heads, changing into cars and other vehicles. In addition, the elephants take on all kinds of bizarre and physically impossible shapes.Especially since the background is pitch black, like the night. All the elephants are varied in color (but are mostly pink), but all have no pupils (and sometimes no eyes at all, like eyeless masks), causing them to resemble ghosts.What makes this scarier is that Dumbo was merely making funny shapes with bubbles, which then leads to one bubble turning into a pink elephant and the madness begins.In fact, most people to this day are afraid for this reason because it is unknown if it was meant to be enjoyable fun, the animators were high or genuine Nightmare Fuel. This aspect makes it even worse, because children are usually afraid of things they don't understand! If they are able to relate to it all it might be because Dumbo's hallucinations are similar to fever nightmares. An adult understands this immediately, but most children don't, since they've never been intoxicated. Dumbo is actually hallucinating because he is drunk.This, children, is why we do not take hallucinogens (though "pink elephants" are more associated with someone being drunk rather than high). The infamous "Pink Elephants On Parade" sequence.(Information adapted from Jim Hill Media. Shortly after the Roll-A-Book version, the story and illustrations were reprinted in a regular book edition of no more than one thousand copies. Apparently no known copies of this original Roll-A-Book survive today. A Roll-A-Book was a distinctive format - It featured about a dozen illustrations which appeared on a short scroll that was built into a box and the reader would twist a small wheel at the top of the box to get to the next panel illustration. The Disney feature film Dumbo originated with a story by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl. She caressed him with her trunk while she listened to the other elephants praise him." Everyone made a great fuss over the baby elephant because he was the cutest of all. There was a new baby lion, a new baby zebra, a baby bear, a baby hippopotamus, a baby camel, a baby giraffe and a new baby elephant. ![]() ![]() "Spring seems to be the season for circus babies. ![]()
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