Aimed primarily at children, the shows featured famous Disney characters performing in various comedy and musical routines, as well as condensed versions of famous Disney motion pictures. It seems wrong but it could have been worse, I think, considering the time. Disney on Parade was a series of traveling arena shows produced by Nawal Productions, a joint venture between NBC and Walt Disney Productions. Other people have been way more critical about this than me but I really don’t like it. Sure, they help him and seem like nice guys, but there is still something really awkward about the whole scene. If this is supposed to function as an analogy, it doesn’t really work, especially as these characters now feel pity for the elephant. It gets really weird when they make (harmless, really, compared to what we’ve seen already) fun of him and Timothy gives a speech asking them how they felt, if they were “left out alone in a cold, cruel, heartless world” just because of his ears? Well, yes, they probably knew very much about that in 1941. There is something clearly racist in using black animals being representations for black people but I have to wonder, is this worse than the similar characters in Transformers, 60 years later? Or all the other black stereotypes in endless movies and TV shows? It really doesn’t help that one of them is called Jim Crow and is voiced by a white actor. The show initially ran for nearly three hours and required over 40 trucks to carry the props and sets from city to city. They talk in a stereotypical way to make the distinction clear. The first edition of the show premiered in Chicago, Illinois on December 25, 1969, following a preview on December 16 in Long Beach, California. They are black birds and they very clearly are supposed to be black characters too. Finding him and Timothy there are five crows, the most infamous aspect of Dumbo.
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