![]() ![]() Even children today, especially ones who have parents that are either in prison or have a job that takes them far away from home, can relate to this scene and the song. When America entered World War II, many children would end up relating to Dumbo their fathers would all be off fighting in the war (many of them would be killed in action, and thus never come back to their families), and their mothers would be working in the factories to take their husbands' place, too busy to be at home with their children. The song takes on a whole new meaning when you consider that this movie was released only a couple months before the attack on Pearl Harbor.If that weren't sad enough, there's also this movie poster depicting the scene, and shows all three characters (Dumbo, Mrs.He waves goodbye even as he's walking away, and she in turn races around to the other cage window so she can wave just a little longer. The end of the sequence, when Dumbo and his mother are forced to part ways, and hold onto each other's trunks until they can't anymore.If things hadn't worked out the way they did, these could have very easily been their last moments together. The fates of unmanageable elephants back in those times and the very real possibility that Mrs.There's the inevitable scene of him crying when "Baby Mine" starts. In Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979), one of the characters (General Stilwell) goes to see Dumbo in theaters, 1941 being the year the film came out. It's a famous enough tearjerker to became the subject of a gag in another movie.There's a reason animation historian Michael Barrier has praised this sequence-the emotions in the scene are so real, you can't help but share your sympathy with Ms.Speaking of Timothy, ever wonder if he was probably thinking about his own mother at that moment?.Even Timothy sheds a Single Tear at this sight. ![]() It doesn't help that they mix Dumbo not being able to be with his mom with scenes of all the other baby animals being rocked to sleep by their mothers.The "Baby Mine" sequence, with Dumbo's mother barely able to reach her baby with her trunk through the bars of her tiny cage, is heartbreaking.As she's being loaded onto the train, she's still watching the sky. Dumbo's mother is eagerly awaiting her baby's arrival, and is heartbroken into the next day when Dumbo doesn't come the first night. The beginning of the movie with the storks dropping the new babies off. ![]()
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