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October 23, 1941

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 23, 1941 

* Dumbo - elephant & mouse
* Walt Disney animated cartoon movie
* Opening day movie advertisement


This 46 page newspaper has a 12 x 6 inch advertisement on page 17 for the opening night showing of the famous Walt Disney animated cartoon movie 'Dumbo'
With movies at that time usually released 1st in New York City, this could very well be the very 1st advertisement for this movie classic in any newspaper.
Nice edition for any Walt Disney collector. This issue has news of the day throughout with other interesting ads. Light browning with some margin wear in unrelated areas, otherwise good.

wikipedia notes: Dumbo is a 1941 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney and first released on October 23, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The fourth film in the Disney animated features canon, Dumbo is based upon a child's book of the same name by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Perl. The main character is Jumbo Jr., a semi-anthropomorphic elephant who is cruelly nicknamed Dumbo. He is ridiculed for his big ears, but in fact he is capable of flying by using them as wings. Throughout most of the film, his only true friend aside from his mother is the mouse Timothy, parodying the stereotypical animosity between mice and elephants. Dumbo was made to make up for the financial losses of Pinocchio and Fantasia. The film has been criticized as being racist (the leader crow in the film is named "Jim Crow"), yet is also considered to be one of Disney's finest films. It was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studio, is now generally regarded as a classic of animation. At 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features.

Category: The 20th Century