Deliberate mistake: While the mouse is walking on Dumbo's trunk, there is a jump in the animation. He's facing Dumbo at one point, then all of the sudden he is in a different position and is facing the other way (this all occurring in the same shot). Look for it before the mouse says, "Dumbo, the great!"
Dumbo (1941)
1 deliberate mistake
Directed by: Wilfred Jackson, Ben Sharpsteen, Bill Roberts, Jack Kinney, Norman Ferguson, Samuel Armstrong, John Elliotte
Starring: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Herman Bing, James Baskett
Continuity mistake: When the elephants in the circus are making a pyramid on top of a ball, as it changes from shot to shot the colour of the blankets on their backs changes, and one of the elephants changes from grey to blue.
Choral Effects: We work all day/We work all night/We never learned/To read or write/We're happy-hearted roustabouts!/When other folks/have gone to bed/We slave until/We're almost dead/We're happy-hearted roustabouts.
Trivia: The sequence with the multi-coloured elephants was based on an unused plan from Fantasia.
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Answer: All the elephants are credited as "Elephant." The only difference is "Matriarch Elephant."
Sol Parker