Dumbo, Disney's remakes and big top cinema

Roll up, roll up for a big-top Bigger Picture all about Tim Burton's Dumbo. Thrill! At Anna, Hen and Pete's soaring appraisal of Disney's 1941 original! Gasp! At the flap they get themselves into tearing down the new one! Wonder! at Hen winging it through an extended rant about the wonders of booze! All this and a musical number too!


The Bigger Picture, presented by the BFI, is...


BFI Southbank Programmer Anna Bogutskaya.


BFI Digital editor Henry Barnes


Producer Peter Sale


Stuff for your eyes:


  • Just leaving this here ... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/aug/16/why-i-love-dumbo-pink-elephants
  • How Dumbo could be seen to subvert racist stereotypes: https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/links/essays/reversal.htm
  • Sob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHYGzJIUn58

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