It did! The part where the elephants march around the edge of the screen, especially, was EXTREMELY revolutionary at the time. No one had ever seen anything like it. It's a famously new and creative use of the medium.
My dad is 87 years old and he was 10 when this movie was released, so I told him that a live-action remake is in production. He said: If I don't see a proper pink elephants scene, that movie will be bullshit!
I remember watching this as a kid and being all creeped out. Meanwhile, my dad's just like "I don't know what Dumbo and that rat were drinking or how strong it was, but I want some."
I remember when I first watched this with my grandpa when I was 7. He looked at me and said "I used to see pink elephants every Sunday mornin". My innocent mind interpreted what he said as "Pap-Pap watched Dumbo every Sunday" and not "Sarah, Pap-Pap got shitfaced every Saturday night".
Maybe they were just trying to show off their animation skills here. Disney's saying, "Look at how much more fluent this animation is compared to Snow White"
Actually, it has a good point. Somehow, Dumbo has to decide to fly. If he wasn't boozed up, he probably wouldn't have gotten the idea that he could fly away from the hallucinations.
There's a lot of comments about how people found this creepy when they watched it as children, and I can see how that would be, but I also think that we should really talk more about how creative and impressive this sequence is. Like damn, this came out in the 40s? The animators at Disney must have been very skilled.
They were truly pioneers, inventing new technologies to create art that human eyes could have never seen. I think the psychedelic aspects are also ahead of their time. Some of this imagery is ripped straight out of the mainstream from a quarter century in the future.
I remember being equal parts creeped out and fascinated as a kid. This sequence definitely had a lot to do with making Dumbo a standout movie even if it had nothing to do with the plot. I wish there was a feature available that had the animators talking about drawing and putting together that scene. What the idea was, what they were trying to create, how it came to life, etc. Bc these guys absolutely made history here and it must have been a special experience.
Actually the lyrics are this: ¿Quién es? ¿Quién va? Ya empiezan a desfilar, viene y van mira qué saltos dan Serán quizá parientes de satanás Ya están, ahí Entorno a la cama van al revés como acrobatas Terror me dan me quieren enloquecer Qué voy a hacer, Qué voy a hacer Ya no me puedo embriagar Al que abusa del licor se le aparece una visión son elefantes en color que espantan y dan terror Yo que al diablo desafié y que la cola le arrranqué los paquidermos tricolor han hecho que pierda mi gran valor ayy que horror Déjenme en paz no puedo más ya se van, ya se van las ánimas del terrooooor Las ánimas..... Las ánimas...Las ánimas
Hand drawn animation tends to hold up very well as an art form since it’s advanced as much as it reasonably can. Unlike newer technologies that are constantly advancing and becoming obsolete inside a decade. The downside to hand drawn is that it’s also obscenely expensive as you have to have a team of artists going frame by frame. Technology has helped automate the process somewhat with key frames but again there’s only so much you can do before you loose the hand drawn aesthetic.
Can we just talk about how beautiful 2:54 is especially? The contrasting bright pink, cream white, and light olive green all manage to compliment each other perfectly. Disney, HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO MAKE THOSE COLORS WORK?!
Red and Green are complimentary colors, situated across from each other on the color wheel. The colors used in the scene were basically red and green with the addition of white, simply making more muted, lighter tones based on red and green, allowing them to still work together. Taking absolutely nothing away from your point however, as the scene is gorgeously animated, especially considering how consistent the lighting was for both the overhead pink tones, and the underneath greens. The use of negative space throughout the later scenes was also fantastic!
@@markclifton859 For this sequence the animators drew the entire elephant, drew where an overhead and floor lights would produce highlights, then removed the elephant??? Perhaps a photographic process separated the colors.
Beginning of LSD. You figure this was made in the 40s/50s or older? Not sure exact without looking. But if older then 50s... It would be heroine. Wizard of Oz cast was fucked up on that shit lol. Especially Dorthy. But this is nothing compared to Yellow Submarine(the Beatles cartoon) far as trip effects, but still great.
There was a reason for that Kids were gonna watch this, and I mean young kids So if he actually made that scene in the remake creepy and disturbing You'll probally see some kids crying or covering their eyes because they were scared
copying is not "doing justice". whats the point of a remake without handdrawn animations if you just redo the thing with ppl? I think they paid homage to this scene in a tasteful way with some subdued melodies without upsetting the pace of the remake with this old school acid vibe this here had. hell, they could have tried to redo this, but it would never have been as creative and authentic, so Im glad they didnt even try
This is weird because not many alcoholic drinks can give you hallucinations and Dumbo was clearly drinking champagne in the scene prior which isn't a drink known to cause hallucinations
For those of you who don't know "seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens. The term dates back to at least the early 20th century, emerging from earlier idioms about snakes and other creatures. An alcoholic character in Jack London's 1913 novel John Barleycorn is said to hallucinate "blue mice and pink elephants".
There is a Belgian brewery called Huyghe! They have a brew called delirium tremens, on the bottle there is a pink elephant. Thanks for the information!!!!
I'm not a huge Dumbo fan, but this scene. Man! Absolutely fantastic. The music, the animation. Nothing nowadays could top this. This was all drawn by hand. No computers or cgi back then. Its amazing.
Same ! When I was a kid I couldn’t wait for this scene to be over since this scene use to scare the living crap out of me . Now I like this scene , and honestly I would choose the original over the live action any day!
I think this entire saying was to demonstrate what you can do with animation. So much fluidity, something that becomes one thing transforms into another. To a lot of people this is scary of how surreal it is. But this is in all honesty the best demonstration on what you can do with animation. In the span of nearly 5 minutes they show so much
Thanks I hate it. Honestly though, that was Disney at the time. Bambi & similar animated movies had a lot of "animation porn", which nowadays wouldn't really work. This didn't need to be in the movie, this wasn't to advance the plot*, it was to demonstrate the animation. It's pretty, but that doesn't mean it's good (coherently).
LuckoDaStars oh yeah. This is what happens when an animator or animators just let loose and let the imagination run wild and put their skills to the test. After all, Animation is a medium where the limits are literally ones imagination.
This is my favorite scene from any movie made by Walt Disney. I can’t get over how freakin cool it is! Even more than 80 years later, it’s still a freakin masterpiece. :)
Then that shows you need to watch more movies. Especially if you judge a movie's quality by... weird animation and acid trips, of all things. Rather than, you know, a good plot, likable characters, etc.
Music to eat Froot to Acid wasnt available recreationally until the 60s, it was first synthesized a couple years prior to the making of this movie in europe, and the pink elephants refer to drunken hallucinations
The eye on the pyramid in the dollar bill was put there in 1935 The movie Dumbo came out in 1941 The Twilight show came out in 1959 So Dumbo couldn't have reference the Twilight Zone if anything both Dumbo and the Twilight Zone referenced the eye of Ra aka the all seeing eye of lucifer on the pyramid on the 1 dollar bill. or it could just be a confidence There is also the third eye 👁️ that people claim is opened when they do psychedelic drugs. So it can just be that But the 3rd might actually what the Epyptians we're referring to when they venerated the eye of god, the pagan sun god Ra. Later on known as the eye of Horus. Alester Crowley said I'm his book, that Horus pecks out the eyes of Jesus. So Horus isn't exactly a nice guy. at least not in the Occult world of mythology. Obviously it's all fiction, right?
The way it happens is the animators do a rough storyboard with notes on the mood and hand it to a composer who composes the music to match the energy of each scene. Then the animators have a score that they animate to. There's often times notes from the composer regarding where he thinks a scene needs to be added or changed to make the music flow better. It's a really cool process where the visuals inform the music and the music inspires the life of the visuals
This scene predates the existence of LSD (and the widespread knowledge of hallucinogens in general) by 14 years. Unless the guys at Disney had somehow gained first-hand experience with peyote or psilocybin (unlikely), it seems they're probably remembering "fever nightmares". Before the era of widespread vaccinations, antibiotics and Tylenol, there was no cure for a bad fever other than "sweating it out", which I'm sure anybody alive in 1944 had experienced many times as a child. This often caused dehydration and delirious bad dreams, halfway between a nightmare and a hallucination. Weird how similar the brain operates when you're crossing wires randomly, either with fever or drugs. Those random bursts of color and dancing animals wouldn't be seen by the general population until the hippies discovered lysergic acid diethylamide and turned the angry pink elephants into happy (though oddly shaped) multicolored Grateful Dead bears.
This is really a masterclass in animation. And for how old this scene is, and for how amazing it still looks. Especially 2:53 and on, just amazing for this scene being older than my grandparents
I mean yeah Although acid didn’t exist yet But it’s shockingly similar nontheless Edit: yes it was invented but it wouldn’t be introduced to the public for another 6 years
Ok I'm sorry you guys were right. Since writing this comment I have learned more about what goes on in animation studios. It was foolish of me to write a bold and ignorant claim without doing research. My apologies.
Oh, they def. tried to scare the kids and adults to some degree (not terrify out of their mind of course): the bottom line was kind-of meant to be "alcohol is a scary drug these are going to be the effects" but in a comedic way. They use a lot of very obvious phobia-elements to emphasize that also noticeable since they put effort into the crisp skin-creeping sound effects and the typical Ghost-type music as well. Back then Disney was a lot less family-policed than today. Artists were allowed to have a bit of creative fun and we all grew up perfectly fine too :)
I think it's brilliant that Walt and the others who worked on the movie took the idea of "pink elephants" (alcohol induced hallucinations) and the idea of a group of elephants being referred to as a "parade" to the most literal extreme imaginable: ethereal pink elephants on parade. I love subtle but clever jokes like that.
Ricky Shum well, learn this. Those two movies were done by 3D animation, which is a lot easier to do than 2D animation. And in today's age, we have better technology to work with, which makes it automatically easier to make, while this scene is done frame by frame, and computers didn't exist.
Ricky Shum The animation in Trolls and Moana was CGI. It isn't beautiful, the water was kinda cool, but why do you need realistic looking water in animation?
I'm starting to have doubts about the remake cause it says here that it won't have Timothy Mouse or the crows :( www.thisisinsider.com/disney-live-action-remakes-2017-2
oh man knowing that tim burton is apparently making a live action version of this film, knowing his.......artistic methods.........this scene is going to be even more horrifying.
I'm going to cringe if he does because HE would put it in because thats who he is. This scene is just pure disturbing and does not serve any purpose other than drug use.
This is frightening even now. I thought this illustrates Dumbo’s depression. How he felt about humans and other elephants treat him. He and his little friends drunk mind exposes their unconsiousness. So they see same thing. /they felt same pressure/
As a teenager when I re-watched this for the first time in years I noticed something about that man made out of elephant heads. The one in the groin area doesn't have a trunk 😂. I can picture Disney watching the animators as they drew the frames back in the late thirties and 1940 and he saw one of the animators had originally drawn it with a trunk and said "Whoop! We can't use that!" 🤣😂🤣😂
As a kid I found it creepy and a bit off putting. But as an adult I've come to rewatch this alot truely appreciating the amazing creativity with the art and music. To this day it's by far my favorite Disney movie. Out of all the old disney movies this left the biggest impression still to this day.
It's been 20 years since I first saw this scene, and I still have no clue what the fuck's going on.... But at least I'm old enough to appreciate the quality of the animation.
@Mÿ Pï Dë Might have been peyote but it doesn't produce many visuals (in swim's experience) nothing like this at least. Magic mushrooms weren't known to Western culture and science, the ones making Dumbo, until 1955 when Maria Sabina gave them to researcher Gordon Wasson. Until then they were little more than hypothesized but not founded in science (excluding Amanitas which doesn't produce true hallucinations in swim's experiences).
@Mÿ Pï Dë I know exactly what you mean about amanitas! I got no visuals but strong mental trip and body high from mesc. I did it several times a couple very high dose.
Amazing to see those animations come to life even after more than 80 years, just an amazing art flex from Disney animators on this scene, you can actually appreciate the animations, the style, the skill the timing! just amazing, even for today standards !
I loved this sequence as a kid. All those crazy elephants changing forms and shapes, transforming and doing all kinds of crazy shit always excited me since i was five.
I think The Black Cauldron had some scarier scenes in it. And The Black Hole had an ending where it showed the bad guy in hell fused inside his robot for all eternity.
When I was a kid this would bore the hell out of me. I would always skip this part. Now im just fascinated by the visuals and sounds of this! Really incredible!
Writers: How traumatizing should we make this? Director: Take these drugs and record whatever you say while you're tripping out. Writers: ... and? Director: That's it.
For 1941 this is way ahead of it's time. Sounds like something Brian Wilson would've done on his kooky Smile period. Really psychedelic and progressive. And also great sound quality to have been done with a light burning a sound wave on the side of the film. Very cool. Also great movie! This scene never scared me.
This animation is 80% scarier in the Spanish version, it talks about lost souls and deals with evil spirits...I said WTF the first time I saw it, couldn't sleep for a few nights, anyway, that movie is amazing, but in Spanish, that scene can freak you out O.o
Disney execs: "We need a drunk scene in our movie. Animators: Think really hard about this movie, take this peyote and write down everything you see!" Animators: "You... got... peyote?" Disney execs: "Don't ask questions."
Walt Disney actually didn't want this scene in the movie after seeing the storyboard. The animators finished it while he was away for an extended period. He must have like it... nobody got fired. ;)
visual drifting: materials appear to move and breathe. Geometry: upon closing ones eyes you can see complex geometrics patterns. Psychedelic Patterns: Patterns appear on walls and materials. Color enhancement: Colors can change and look more vibrant. There are many more effects but these are the main ones which most people see when people take it, Its not really about "seeing stuff," rather, the mindset it puts you in. It can help you overcome any problems you may be facing and help you achieve your goals.
This was my favorite part of Dumbo! For a while as a kid I barely knew what the ending was like because I'd fast forward to this part and get bored before the movie because the rest of it wasn't nearly as exciting lol
I can only imagine this blew people's minds in the theaters back in 1941.
But back then there was WW2
It’s blowing my mind right now 🤯
Squidward Tenticles Isthe Best I believe it is before we joined the war :)
@@NintendoFanatic2001 And so what?
It did! The part where the elephants march around the edge of the screen, especially, was EXTREMELY revolutionary at the time. No one had ever seen anything like it. It's a famously new and creative use of the medium.
Their black, soulless eyes always terrified me as a child
I actually liked them ;-;
OMG SAME
That was the ONLY thing that scared you in this?
Same.
How many of them are there?
My dad is 87 years old and he was 10 when this movie was released, so I told him that a live-action remake is in production. He said: If I don't see a proper pink elephants scene, that movie will be bullshit!
Judy lmfao
🤣😂
And he's totally right!!
I’m really tempted to say, “And then everyone clapped”, but I’ll be nice.
I heard there will be, if not I'm not happy 👿👿😭😭
I remember watching this as a kid and being all creeped out. Meanwhile, my dad's just like "I don't know what Dumbo and that rat were drinking or how strong it was, but I want some."
Your dad's a trippa
Probably a normal drink but elephants are light weights
It is actually true that elephants don’t need a whole lot of alcohol to get drunk and go on rampages.
When your dad says, its not that Creepy son just sit back and relax.That gets me thinking like, Wtf did my parents watch growing up?? 😂
Absinthe
I remember when I first watched this with my grandpa when I was 7. He looked at me and said "I used to see pink elephants every Sunday mornin". My innocent mind interpreted what he said as "Pap-Pap watched Dumbo every Sunday" and not "Sarah, Pap-Pap got shitfaced every Saturday night".
Lol
he got drunk?
@@berdinderindas when he was young, yes
@@LovelyWitch926 ok
😂
Creators kinda forgot that Dumbo is drunk from alcohol, not high af from LSD....
Well alcohol certainly hasnt forgotten about them.
@Pilot Adventurer It was a Four Loko 😂🤣
LSD would not have been invented yet, so more than likely this was inspired by a strong reaction to Absinthe
this is a depiction of delirium tremens from alcohol withdrawal, seeing pink elephants is a nickname for it.
maybe it had lsd in the alcohol it makes sense
Maybe they were just trying to show off their animation skills here. Disney's saying, "Look at how much more fluent this animation is compared to Snow White"
Or just to show how drunk they were lmao
I had this version in my mind as well. Indeed, this is 1941, and the level of animating skills is top!
Well it haunted me either way
It's like they were trying to recreate that brooms thing from Fantasia or something.
Or they wanted to traumatize children
The fact that this is over 80 years and the animation still holds up today is just amazing as this is a timeless classic.
Dumbo's book was published during world war 2!. From Joe. X
And hand drawn
In 2024 it's been 83 years!
Anyone in this Year we live?
Oh God, 80 years…
This went from creepy as a kid to now being able to appreciate this masterpiece
True
I never saw this movie, but I know that little kid me would love this scene lol
Thank god I’m not the only one who thought this
As a kid this was horrifying
@@YuktubeIsDaFunniOne Bruh why?
probably the most pointless scene in the movie yet probably the most memorable
yea it was, but I always loved it. It was a weird twist but in a good way
it is what you describe it as yet fucking terrifying lmaoo
Actually, it has a good point. Somehow, Dumbo has to decide to fly. If he wasn't boozed up, he probably wouldn't have gotten the idea that he could fly away from the hallucinations.
Apparently Pink Elephants was a test for Fantasia but was discarded when Disney changed the format and direction for it.
It's a scene that comes out of absolutely nowhere and is way over the top in terms of visuals, and after it's done, it's never mentioned again.
There's a lot of comments about how people found this creepy when they watched it as children, and I can see how that would be, but I also think that we should really talk more about how creative and impressive this sequence is. Like damn, this came out in the 40s? The animators at Disney must have been very skilled.
Yeah, i mean look at Fantasia. Even old school stuff that's not Disney can be quite impressive, you just have to hunt it down.
That's what I was thinking this whole time too!
No computers or nothing either. All done by hand
They were truly pioneers, inventing new technologies to create art that human eyes could have never seen. I think the psychedelic aspects are also ahead of their time. Some of this imagery is ripped straight out of the mainstream from a quarter century in the future.
This is why Disney still making bank because of the animation skills are just top notch
I remember being equal parts creeped out and fascinated as a kid. This sequence definitely had a lot to do with making Dumbo a standout movie even if it had nothing to do with the plot. I wish there was a feature available that had the animators talking about drawing and putting together that scene. What the idea was, what they were trying to create, how it came to life, etc. Bc these guys absolutely made history here and it must have been a special experience.
In the spanish version this song is even scarier, it says things like "Who are they?, relatives of satan maybe?"
In spanish the song is called
"Spirits of terror" and it is indeed much scarier than the original
I watched it as a kid in Spanish 😂
Actually the lyrics are this:
¿Quién es? ¿Quién va?
Ya empiezan a desfilar,
viene y van mira qué saltos dan
Serán quizá parientes de satanás
Ya están, ahí
Entorno a la cama van al revés
como acrobatas
Terror me dan me quieren enloquecer
Qué voy a hacer, Qué voy a hacer
Ya no me puedo embriagar
Al que abusa del licor
se le aparece una visión
son elefantes en color
que espantan y dan terror
Yo que al diablo desafié
y que la cola le arrranqué
los paquidermos tricolor
han hecho que pierda mi gran valor
ayy que horror
Déjenme en paz
no puedo más
ya se van, ya se van
las ánimas del terrooooor
Las ánimas..... Las ánimas...Las ánimas
I was about to write that. Bruh we Spanish speakers were fucking traumatized thanks to this part of the movie.
No se ustedes a mi la letra y musica me asustaban de pequeño
Isnt it absolutely crazy how this is 80+ years old and it holds up INCREDIBLY
As someone with ADHD (terrible perception of time), this was a one hit knock out punch 👍
Holds up better than most live action movies today.
Couldn't agree more!
You can’t make things like this nowadays… love this much more than the stuff they make now
Hand drawn animation tends to hold up very well as an art form since it’s advanced as much as it reasonably can. Unlike newer technologies that are constantly advancing and becoming obsolete inside a decade. The downside to hand drawn is that it’s also obscenely expensive as you have to have a team of artists going frame by frame. Technology has helped automate the process somewhat with key frames but again there’s only so much you can do before you loose the hand drawn aesthetic.
I wonder how people felt seeing this for the first time in 1941
*Gee what a ride*
I wonder how people see this for the first time in 2019
@@napalm_rn1295heres an answer to your question : Stupid hooman: wow look at the big visuals son.
Well I thought about this and I would just be confused. I'd be thinking "why did 4 hugeass elephants just form out of a bubble that Dumbo blew?"
I don't know about here in North America, but in Europe they were to busy fighting a war to see a movie.
The animators just had a field day coming up with this scene
Dumbo's book was published a year before World War 2, and made into a film 3 years later in 1941. From Joe. X
Absolute 😂
1941: A bunch of strange colors, shapes, and designs from getting drunk.
2019: Bubbles with a Danny Elfman score.
I saw the movie today, and that scene with the bubbles was nothing. What a joke.
I HATED the scene with the bubbles in the live action! Seriously it was trash, nothing compared to THIS!
I feel like this is the kind of thing that would never please some fans in a remake.
I guess drunk baby elephants are too much for people today lol
I'm just saying how would you replicate THIS in a full live action movie
i’m going full screen
wish me luck
kacii fisher same
Don’t do it 😖
Did you make it back? :(
I did too lol
Matt Bags after many scars yes
I don't remember this tune being this lit.
Probably because my younger self was scared shitless, lmao
Right like why is it so fire now!!!!
Honestly
Lol same
leon xø lol me tooo 😂
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Can we just talk about how beautiful 2:54 is especially? The contrasting bright pink, cream white, and light olive green all manage to compliment each other perfectly.
Disney, HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO MAKE THOSE COLORS WORK?!
Red and Green are complimentary colors, situated across from each other on the color wheel. The colors used in the scene were basically red and green with the addition of white, simply making more muted, lighter tones based on red and green, allowing them to still work together. Taking absolutely nothing away from your point however, as the scene is gorgeously animated, especially considering how consistent the lighting was for both the overhead pink tones, and the underneath greens. The use of negative space throughout the later scenes was also fantastic!
@@markclifton859 I always thought blue was the opposite of red, not green. Interesting 🤔
@@markclifton859 For this sequence the animators drew the entire elephant, drew where an overhead and floor lights would produce highlights, then removed the elephant??? Perhaps a photographic process separated the colors.
@@qaiserkhan4465 You're thinking of the spectrum of visible light. The color wheel shows complimentary colors.
Those are some really technicolored pachyderms
It might be creepy, but this is easily one of the best scenes Disney has done.
And most memorable! Anyone whose ever seen this movie definitely remembers this scene!
@@cja1122 you see pink elephants when you drink champagne!. From Joe. X
Not creepy I’ve seen way worse this was nice
@@PaulieWalnuts_007 Well. It's mostly surreal, if anything really.
@@ludonymous526 thanks captain I agree
They were on a different kind of crack when making this
Was cocaine still legal when they made this? Or had they already outlawed it when they thought it made black men violent?
@@Thoralmir This was LSD trip gone bad to good 😂
Watch the film the lost weekend and you will understand 😂
Beginning of LSD. You figure this was made in the 40s/50s or older? Not sure exact without looking. But if older then 50s... It would be heroine. Wizard of Oz cast was fucked up on that shit lol. Especially Dorthy. But this is nothing compared to Yellow Submarine(the Beatles cartoon) far as trip effects, but still great.
@@es-lb4mw Exactly
I’m pissed because the new remake didn’t do a good job on this scene
It was short, not as creepy and it wasn’t even Dumbo’s dream...
so they did ruin it -_- as I feared....
However it did invoke the nostalgia of that song.
There was a reason for that
Kids were gonna watch this, and I mean young kids
So if he actually made that scene in the remake creepy and disturbing
You'll probally see some kids crying or covering their eyes because they were scared
It’s because people are scared of little cartoons and movies, when they should fear the threat of a WW3
copying is not "doing justice". whats the point of a remake without handdrawn animations if you just redo the thing with ppl? I think they paid homage to this scene in a tasteful way with some subdued melodies without upsetting the pace of the remake with this old school acid vibe this here had. hell, they could have tried to redo this, but it would never have been as creative and authentic, so Im glad they didnt even try
I can’t explain this feeling how this song feels, it feels so disturbing but yet it it feels almost safe and secure, like a liminal space.
A right jolly laugh!. From Joe. X
"Seeing pink elephants" is a term used when someone is hallucinating when incredibly drunk
This is weird because not many alcoholic drinks can give you hallucinations and Dumbo was clearly drinking champagne in the scene prior which isn't a drink known to cause hallucinations
Delirium Tremens.
You sure you arent just making that up to sound smart?
@@orionrazilov5994 Maybe there was some fungus in there.
@@orionrazilov5994 it’s referring to the hallucinations one can have after stopping as a heavy drinker
For those of you who don't know "seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens. The term dates back to at least the early 20th century, emerging from earlier idioms about snakes and other creatures. An alcoholic character in Jack London's 1913 novel John Barleycorn is said to hallucinate "blue mice and pink elephants".
Wow, I did not know that. The guy who told me Dumbo is just for little kids back in seventh grade must not have known about that scene.
Thanks historic side of youtube!!
Oh I just thought Dumbo was stoned and this was the most creepy thing they came up with
Douglas Roth genious
There is a Belgian brewery called Huyghe! They have a brew called delirium tremens, on the bottle there is a pink elephant. Thanks for the information!!!!
"The Incredibles 2 movie is putting out a warning for people with epilepsy, photo sensitivities"
Dumbo: Hold my champagne. 4:09
GizzardGamer Productions this comment just made me laugh my ass off.
i think that's more of "sorry, what was that?"
That it did kill my eyes
I've seen some TV showings delete that ending scene because of the flashing!
That part was hard to watch
I'm not a huge Dumbo fan, but this scene. Man! Absolutely fantastic. The music, the animation. Nothing nowadays could top this. This was all drawn by hand. No computers or cgi back then. Its amazing.
This part used to scare the ever-living hell out of me as a kid.
Now it's my favourite part XD
Edit: Whoa!! Thanks so much for the likes!!
Becky C. Saaaame
Was always my favorite
Same lol 😂
Same ! When I was a kid I couldn’t wait for this scene to be over since this scene use to scare the living crap out of me . Now I like this scene , and honestly I would choose the original over the live action any day!
Same
The fact this is voted one of the scariest scenes for kids is so weird to me! I absolutely adored it and still do to this day 😂
I used to like it’s trippyness of the animation lol
@@JaKack literally the best part about it 😂
It's my favorite part too! Always has been.
Same its kind of like the boat scene from Willy Wonka and I thought that was hilarious
I was terrified by this animation. The empty eyes, the wobbly face and the rapid changing colors made all of this scary af.
I think this entire saying was to demonstrate what you can do with animation. So much fluidity, something that becomes one thing transforms into another. To a lot of people this is scary of how surreal it is. But this is in all honesty the best demonstration on what you can do with animation. In the span of nearly 5 minutes they show so much
Thanks I hate it.
Honestly though, that was Disney at the time. Bambi & similar animated movies had a lot of "animation porn", which nowadays wouldn't really work. This didn't need to be in the movie, this wasn't to advance the plot*, it was to demonstrate the animation. It's pretty, but that doesn't mean it's good (coherently).
LuckoDaStars you should definitely check out The Wall - Pink Floyd movie if you haven’t already
LuckoDaStars oh yeah. This is what happens when an animator or animators just let loose and let the imagination run wild and put their skills to the test. After all, Animation is a medium where the limits are literally ones imagination.
CombatArmsGameplay21 ever heard of Garfield and his Nine Lives?
LuckoDaStars i was thinking that too. This looks like some experimental animation. Its beautiful.
This is my favorite scene from any movie made by Walt Disney. I can’t get over how freakin cool it is! Even more than 80 years later, it’s still a freakin masterpiece. :)
🤡
It's not 80 years old
@burning_buddha It is though. Now it is 83 years old.
@@bakedbeans5494 Nice portrait.
This shows how much times have changed. Nowadays you'd never see a Disney movie with a nightmare scene based on the hallucinations of a drunk child
is that a good thing?
Kylie probably
Tell that to The good dinosaur
Then that shows you need to watch more movies. Especially if you judge a movie's quality by... weird animation and acid trips, of all things. Rather than, you know, a good plot, likable characters, etc.
Music to eat Froot to Acid wasnt available recreationally until the 60s, it was first synthesized a couple years prior to the making of this movie in europe, and the pink elephants refer to drunken hallucinations
This has to stay exactly the same in the remake otherwise I’ll be pissed off
Kayla Grech Tim Burton is directing the remake, so it will probably be just as surreal.
Kayla Grech nah, u know Tim is going to alter it. But u gotta trust him.. only because when he's gud ... he's really gud
If it’s NOT freakier and trippier than the original, I’ll be pissed.
Kayla Grech you don’t wanna see anything new?
If not we'll Riot 😡😡😡
Fun fact: A group of Elephants is actually called a Parade.
Game changer
All we need to do is paint them pink
And it will all make sense
How did I miss this! Thats so clever.
oh so thats why ITS called pink elephants on parade
This was a literal masterclass in animation! And it was all drawn by hand! Absolutely groundbreaking.
I also love how the belly dancer randomly turns into a floating circle, and then a twilight zone eyeball
Finally, someone knows twilight zone
YAAAAY, SOMEONE ELSE WHO KNOWS TWILIGHT ZONE😄😄😄😁
@@nippersnippers9178 (Hums the theme and do the bongo rolls)
The eye on the pyramid in the dollar bill was put there in 1935
The movie Dumbo came out in 1941
The Twilight show came out in 1959
So Dumbo couldn't have reference the Twilight Zone
if anything both Dumbo and the Twilight Zone referenced the eye of Ra aka the all seeing eye of lucifer on the pyramid on the 1 dollar bill.
or it could just be a confidence
There is also the third eye 👁️ that people claim is opened when they do psychedelic drugs.
So it can just be that
But the 3rd might actually what the Epyptians we're referring to when they venerated the eye of god, the pagan sun god Ra.
Later on known as the eye of Horus.
Alester Crowley said I'm his book, that Horus pecks out the eyes of Jesus.
So Horus isn't exactly a nice guy.
at least not in the Occult world of mythology.
Obviously it's all fiction, right?
TWILIGHT ZONE MENTION 👀🚪🪆⏱️WHAT THE FUCK IS ETHICAL MOVIE PRODUCTION
The orchestra and animators were clearly communicating perfectly with each other because both the music and visuals are in sync flawlessly!
The way it happens is the animators do a rough storyboard with notes on the mood and hand it to a composer who composes the music to match the energy of each scene. Then the animators have a score that they animate to. There's often times notes from the composer regarding where he thinks a scene needs to be added or changed to make the music flow better. It's a really cool process where the visuals inform the music and the music inspires the life of the visuals
@@RogueAstro85 Nice, didn't know that!
It didn't scare me as a kid but it definitely made me question what the fuck am I watching.
Just wait until Tim Burton's live action Dumbo remake >__>
Same here.
I was one of those children.
Nekonomicon same here I loved it as a little kid but that end part made my head hurt.
rewinding the VHS to watch this over and over
Watching this on VHS when I was young with all the lights off was a trip.
original song in an amazing film:
tik tok: *hippity hoppity your song is now my property*
?
no one:
you: hippity hoppity this joke is now my property
@@bruh-bh3kk damn you really gotta do me like that man?
Thats why im here
@Tianna Carlson yep
Surrealism at it's finest. This terrified me when I first saw it, but it is really cool.
Parts of this scared me as a kid, now I'm more scared that the animators may have died from drug overdose...
It scared me too lol
This scene predates the existence of LSD (and the widespread knowledge of hallucinogens in general) by 14 years. Unless the guys at Disney had somehow gained first-hand experience with peyote or psilocybin (unlikely), it seems they're probably remembering "fever nightmares". Before the era of widespread vaccinations, antibiotics and Tylenol, there was no cure for a bad fever other than "sweating it out", which I'm sure anybody alive in 1944 had experienced many times as a child. This often caused dehydration and delirious bad dreams, halfway between a nightmare and a hallucination.
Weird how similar the brain operates when you're crossing wires randomly, either with fever or drugs. Those random bursts of color and dancing animals wouldn't be seen by the general population until the hippies discovered lysergic acid diethylamide and turned the angry pink elephants into happy (though oddly shaped) multicolored Grateful Dead bears.
This scared me until I was 22.
You're right! It scared me too 0_o It's really scary for a child's mind.
What part
This is really a masterclass in animation. And for how old this scene is, and for how amazing it still looks. Especially 2:53 and on, just amazing for this scene being older than my grandparents
When you are high as hell of acid but you have to finish the scene anyways
LITERALLY SAME LMAO
I mean yeah
Although acid didn’t exist yet
But it’s shockingly similar nontheless
Edit: yes it was invented but it wouldn’t be introduced to the public for another 6 years
This was so ahead of it’s time. I wish cartoons nowadays were still hand drawn and made by skilled animators.
They still are skilled, just don't use rubber hose.
They still skilled
how rude of you to imply that the current overworked and underpaid 3D animators aren’t skilled when they very much are
Ok I'm sorry you guys were right. Since writing this comment I have learned more about what goes on in animation studios. It was foolish of me to write a bold and ignorant claim without doing research. My apologies.
@@save_bandit they needa be doing a better job then💀
Absolutely terrified me as a young kid, but now, love the musicianship and animation that went into this.
I was so scared of this scene as a child, but coming back to it, I definitely appreciate the work that went into this now 😅
Copium.
Especially considering each frame would’ve been drawn and painted by hand.
I don’t think they were ever trying to scare kids I think this was just suppose to be a creative art sequence to pad the run time
Sadie Stranks Never thought it that way before
It's really good when we put the trauma aside honestly
Oh, they def. tried to scare the kids and adults to some degree (not terrify out of their mind of course): the bottom line was kind-of meant to be "alcohol is a scary drug these are going to be the effects" but in a comedic way. They use a lot of very obvious phobia-elements to emphasize that also noticeable since they put effort into the crisp skin-creeping sound effects and the typical Ghost-type music as well. Back then Disney was a lot less family-policed than today. Artists were allowed to have a bit of creative fun and we all grew up perfectly fine too :)
You could make that argument about literally anything animated on screen, so it doesn't hold much water.
That does make sense especially at 2:30 and on.
Me: oh hey this isn’t so scary as everyone says it is
*gets to the part with the elephant made of elephant heads*
Me: ok I take that back!
Romania Da Nerdy Zoroark you can’t understand our fear if u didn’t watch Dumbo as a kid 😂😂
you: no fears
elephants head demon:
you: one fear
I am now 13 and this still scares the living shit out of me so when my brother makes me watch with him I cover my face during this part
That's a lots of elephants heads
I think it's brilliant that Walt and the others who worked on the movie took the idea of "pink elephants" (alcohol induced hallucinations) and the idea of a group of elephants being referred to as a "parade" to the most literal extreme imaginable: ethereal pink elephants on parade. I love subtle but clever jokes like that.
This is how I feel each time I fall asleep hungry. The most weirdest, and astonishing things be happening in my dreams.
The absolute nightmares this gave me as a kid, and now it’s fantastic. Still a level of creepy, but I can appreciate it now.
Dude you should listen the Spanish version and his lyrics they were way worse...
This is some trippy shit but the animation is absolutely gorgeous.
Nice huh
HikariMichi42 for a 1941, it's insane
+Bobby Cobble Definitely.
HikariMichi42 Good thing that Dumbo and Timothy didn't use the joint.
Lord Jadus ya I miss these Disney animations
I wanna be afraid, but I'm busy marveling at how amazing this animation is.
I was the same when I first saw this...I was marveled by the quality from a 40's or 30's film from walt
No! Animation Is Still Good Today! The Animation In Trolls And Moana Was Stunning! Suck On That!
Ricky Shum well, learn this. Those two movies were done by 3D animation, which is a lot easier to do than 2D animation. And in today's age, we have better technology to work with, which makes it automatically easier to make, while this scene is done frame by frame, and computers didn't exist.
Ricky Shum The animation in Trolls and Moana was CGI. It isn't beautiful, the water was kinda cool, but why do you need realistic looking water in animation?
Honestly i was shown this at the age of 7 and 3 years later i wanted to become an animator... now im 14 and actually making animations...
one of the scariest scene in cartoon history
for real though 😂 this scared me as a kid
Lets not forget how the music is as terrifying as the animation
But still pretty cool from 2:22 to 2:48. :)
dumbo really got *this* drunk at like 4 days old
HAHA! It's funny and TRUE!
This isn't drunk. This is LSD.
@@bones8438 Who gives a sh*t, man! It's a Disney movie......he's just drunk!
@@bones8438 lsd didn't exist in 1941
In elephant years he was 21
Okay, Tim Burton... This is why you were chosen to do the remake. Let's see what you got! ;)
Bobsheaux oh hi!
I'm starting to have doubts about the remake cause it says here that it won't have Timothy Mouse or the crows :( www.thisisinsider.com/disney-live-action-remakes-2017-2
Doubt away, but keep an open mind. There were MANY changes to Pete's Dragon, and that ended up being pretty damn good.
Bobsheaux good point. BTW, I like your videos.
I've never seen the old Pete's Dragon. But I did see the 2016 version and it was pretty good
This is a true masterpiece! It was creepy as a kid and still gives the goosebumps
oh man knowing that tim burton is apparently making a live action version of this film, knowing his.......artistic methods.........this scene is going to be even more horrifying.
+metalman20 Oh my god?!? R u serious.
Freak a Brick
yes i am
Walt would be ashamed ;(
Oh crap! I always wondered why Tim Burton would direct a remake to Dumbo. Now it all makes sense!
Disney has once been known for nightmare fuel and drippy style long ago, it would be something to recapture that feeling.
TIM BURTON BETTER PUT THIS IN HIS REMAKE GOD DAMN IT.
He's gonna ruin it. It might be in it, it just won't be like this :(
Have you even seen the trailer.
I'm going to cringe if he does because HE would put it in because thats who he is. This scene is just pure disturbing and does not serve any purpose other than drug use.
based on the trailers the pink elephants are bubbles floating through the air
Kind of a few restrictions, what the 21st century and all
This is frightening even now. I thought this illustrates Dumbo’s depression. How he felt about humans and other elephants treat him. He and his little friends drunk mind exposes their unconsiousness. So they see same thing. /they felt same pressure/
Lulu Desu I literally never thought of it like that I just thought it was creepy
As a teenager when I re-watched this for the first time in years I noticed something about that man made out of elephant heads. The one in the groin area doesn't have a trunk 😂. I can picture Disney watching the animators as they drew the frames back in the late thirties and 1940 and he saw one of the animators had originally drawn it with a trunk and said "Whoop! We can't use that!" 🤣😂🤣😂
2:37 i can't get over how smooth the transformations are, so freaking cool
@kaka bumbum 420 ok???
yep and we'll likely never see anything of the sort again. Hand drawn animation has been dead for decades
I legit had to slow it down to see why it was so smooth.
What's the pyramid got to do with drinking and memories.
@@Venom70787 this is what you call a mindfuck. Nothing connects to anything and it fucks with your mind.
This really makes me think of the circus mouse scene from Coraline
Deku Boi THAT SENCE SCARED U SKSBSK WHATT
Naydean Gutierrez nah, this scene didn't scare me either .-.
Deku Boi Sup Deku xD
Psycho Wolf Lauren hello there
Coolcatz 2018 OwO
I don’t know how people find this creepy. This was always my favorite part of the movie as a kid.
Too much for me at the time kinda freaked me out ngl
Tbh it was just the way how hollow the eyes were
@Trevor Forever same
As a kid I found it creepy and a bit off putting. But as an adult I've come to rewatch this alot truely appreciating the amazing creativity with the art and music. To this day it's by far my favorite Disney movie. Out of all the old disney movies this left the biggest impression still to this day.
Soulless eyes
watching this on acid in the 60s must have been absolutely wild. and 4:10 seems like it was specifically made to induce an epileptic seizure lol
It's been 20 years since I first saw this scene, and I still have no clue what the fuck's going on....
But at least I'm old enough to appreciate the quality of the animation.
Tim Burton’s creepy style would have gone so well with this scene and he chose bubbles :/
I don't think it was his fault. Disney probably didn't give him a chance to be creative
I liked the bubbles.
@@masterknife8423 yeah je probably got severly barred from doing anything too creepy with this scen so he worked with what he had
Emma Van Haele Huge Tim Burton fan here, that being said. I TOTALLY AGREE!
Couldn’t disagree more. I don’t know why, but I’ve developed a severe hatred for anything in that style. Too over saturated I think.
Dumbo: 1941
LSD psychological effects discovered: 1943
I'll have a glass of whatever they had in the writer's room to come up with this.
*Surprised Pikachu face*
@Mÿ Pï Dë Might have been peyote but it doesn't produce many visuals (in swim's experience) nothing like this at least. Magic mushrooms weren't known to Western culture and science, the ones making Dumbo, until 1955 when Maria Sabina gave them to researcher Gordon Wasson. Until then they were little more than hypothesized but not founded in science (excluding Amanitas which doesn't produce true hallucinations in swim's experiences).
@Mÿ Pï Dë I know exactly what you mean about amanitas! I got no visuals but strong mental trip and body high from mesc. I did it several times a couple very high dose.
Was this when Coca-Cola had actual cocaine?
huh.. weird fact actually. This is definitely psychedelic 🌀
Amazing to see those animations come to life even after more than 80 years, just an amazing art flex from Disney animators on this scene, you can actually appreciate the animations, the style, the skill the timing! just amazing, even for today standards !
Nope.
There are two types of people:
Those who found it scary
Those who found this scene awesome.
There is no in-between.
Valstrax as a kid this scene would have scared the crap out of me. But now that I'm older I think scene is incredible
i loved this scene as a kid LMFAO
I'm definitely now of those who found this scene awesome
I am in-between . It started great but became self indulgent and boring .
Ngl i'm still kinda scared
I loved this sequence as a kid. All those crazy elephants changing forms and shapes, transforming and doing all kinds of crazy shit always excited me since i was five.
How did this sequence excite you? I was and still is absolutely terrified!
Same I’ve always had a special adoration for the bizarre😂
Same
Me too. As a kid I remember trying to draw some if these scenes.
One of the scariest scenes in Disney. Yet I was unphased by it as a kid
What do you want a medal?
I think The Black Cauldron had some scarier scenes in it. And The Black Hole had an ending where it showed the bad guy in hell fused inside his robot for all eternity.
Watership Down is tame compared to The Plague Dogs
If your Australian then you would know about this m.ruclips.net/video/WtrYO-Mog60/видео.html oh yes this one is scary as shit as well as you watch
LittleDeez It was billed as “the most delightful Disney sequence ever made”.
this scene helped me fall asleep as a child. this scene is very trippy and sleepy.
When I was a kid this would bore the hell out of me. I would always skip this part.
Now im just fascinated by the visuals and sounds of this! Really incredible!
How would this bore you-
A scene that was truly ahead of its time.
Am I the only one that actually loved this as a child?
So did I
Nah, man. I loved this scene too!
I did too.
I loved it.
Gabriel Rangel nope!
"Look out, Look out, Pink elephants on PARADE" 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥❗️❗️
“Here they come, hippity hoppity” 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🐘🐘
@@takeuchikitty2006 Their herrrreee.
“HAHAHA ITS A GIRAFFE”
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂🤣
I can hear Patrick's stupid laugh in my head now! Lol
NSA 😂☠️
there really is a spongebob quote for everything
Writers: How traumatizing should we make this?
Director: Take these drugs and record whatever you say while you're tripping out.
Writers: ... and?
Director: That's it.
For 1941 this is way ahead of it's time. Sounds like something Brian Wilson would've done on his kooky Smile period. Really psychedelic and progressive. And also great sound quality to have been done with a light burning a sound wave on the side of the film. Very cool. Also great movie! This scene never scared me.
Dumbo is mostly substance over style, but this scene is a feast for the eyes.
Watching this as a kid I thought this was what being drunk was actually like lol
Lmfao
And from that day on, I swore never to drink🍷🍻 ever
It is 🫣👀
@@Nashr26 really? What on earth are you drinking?
It is though lol minus the hallucinations
I don't understand how this scared people. This is one of the coolest displays of animation I've ever seen
This animation is 80% scarier in the Spanish version, it talks about lost souls and deals with evil spirits...I said WTF the first time I saw it, couldn't sleep for a few nights, anyway, that movie is amazing, but in Spanish, that scene can freak you out O.o
Those Elephants don't have any eyes. Just black holes in their faces that stare into your soul...
Only RUclips could make such a cool scene annoying man lol. This wasn't scary in the least
@@mopnem wtf, it was scary to people as kids, thats whats being said... Well it was trying to scare kids off drinking...
Try watching this when you’re five.....
Disney execs: "We need a drunk scene in our movie. Animators: Think really hard about this movie, take this peyote and write down everything you see!"
Animators: "You... got... peyote?"
Disney execs: "Don't ask questions."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Hippity Hoppity"
I seriously thought that’s what happened as a child
Walt Disney actually didn't want this scene in the movie after seeing the storyboard. The animators finished it while he was away for an extended period. He must have like it... nobody got fired. ;)
THIS 😂🤣
What'll I do?!?! What'll I do?!?! What an usual view!
2:28 anyone else getting a Dr. Seuss vibe from the camelephant?
Yes, quite a bit of the imagery has a Dr. Seuss flavor to it.
Camphant is a good name.
Cam·phant
Any here after the trailer for the live action take? And I can't wait to see how tim burton does this
you can't top perfection. this can't be improved. it will be a disappointment like Dark Shadows was
husein mashni stfu
husein mashni you clearly don't know Tim burton
SkyStormSong what where did you hear that
The closest thing I could find to it in the trailer was the purple elephant bubbles.
must have been more than alchohol in that champagne
More like LCD
it's a real alcoholic beverage called abstinence known to give LSD like effects
Dr. Nachos *absinthe
S****
burmiester1 I was drunk the d@y I commented
Anyone watching this in 2024 ? , this song really still cool ❤❤
1941: Cool woah this looks nice
2019: HOW CAN A ELEPHANT GET DRUNK
But the elephant that can't get drunk flies 😑😑😑
People worry too much about details
Elephants actually do get drunk by eating fermented apples and other fruits in the wild
Hey kids! Wanna know what LSD is like? Look no further! Disney has you covered!
+Alexander Potec Except it looks nothing like this
how would you know?
Alexander Potec Because I have tried it
interesting. well, i wouldn't know since i don't take drugs. but interesting regardless. what DO you see during an LSD trip?
visual drifting: materials appear to move and breathe.
Geometry: upon closing ones eyes you can see complex geometrics patterns.
Psychedelic Patterns: Patterns appear on walls and materials.
Color enhancement: Colors can change and look more vibrant.
There are many more effects but these are the main ones which most people see when people take it, Its not really about "seeing stuff," rather, the mindset it puts you in. It can help you overcome any problems you may be facing and help you achieve your goals.
Dumbo was so cute bopping his head at the Pink Elephants in live action film
IM GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THAT
He was super adorable
Midtownkitten OMG I thought that was cute
IKR?! 😭
He was so cute I just wanted to hug him
lets just appriacate the art in this scene omg the art is so good
To hell with all the people on and on about how trippy this scene was. Whoever conceived it was absolutely an artistic genius.
Pwnzistor i love it because it’s trippy 🤷🏼♂️
I don't get why some people actually LIKED this scene. Their soulless eyes and big smiles scared me shitless
But seeing things you know there ain't can certainly give you an awful fright 😂
Cause it's truly masterpiece of animation? Still can't believe that quality was made in 1940-s
I just thought they just moved right, everything flowed smoothly, it was just so well done
The insane animation
I loved it and still do
This gave me nightmares as a kid. I remember waking up sweating and felt like I was paralyzed when I woke. Scariest shit ever
You must've been a wimp
@@pleaseimbeggingyouletmemak3051 mate it scared a lot of people
@@pleaseimbeggingyouletmemak3051 honestly i have to agree. It really isnt that scary XD
I'm laughing bc of your Squidward picture
@@Bobby_Peters yeah its not scary..its terrifying
This was my favorite part of Dumbo! For a while as a kid I barely knew what the ending was like because I'd fast forward to this part and get bored before the movie because the rest of it wasn't nearly as exciting lol