Disney's Dumbo (1941) Pitch Meeting
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- Step inside the 1941 pitch meeting that led to Disney’s original Dumbo!
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Tim Burton is bringing Dumbo the elephant back to life this year in a live-action adaptation featuring a bunch of human actors played by Danny Devito, Michael Keaton, Colin Farrell and more. The original is a Disney classic, but it seems like a lot of people might not remember it. It definitely raises a lot of questions. Like what’s up with the storks all delivering baby animals on the same exact night? Why are some of the songs so blatantly offensive? Why do Dumbo and Timothy Q Mouse drink so much?
To answer all these questions and more, step inside the pitch meeting that led to Dumbo! It’s super easy, barely an inconvenience!
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I never realized that this movie has almost no real plot.
No wonder i always got so bored when watching it as a kid
Most of Disney movies were like that, little story, fill it with as many songs and wacky gags as possible, see Cinderella, snow white... My favorite Disney movie (sleeping beauty) takes almost half of the movie to show the actual sleeping beauty.
Same. I was just going to type something like that. LOL
It might not have much of a "plot" but I think it has some very emotional moments and nice messages. Like the way mothers need their children as much as their children need them, the philosophy of turning a weakness around into a strength and looking on the positive side, the way a symbol or totem can help you gain confidence (Dumbo's feather), etc. I think it's very insightful, if you're paying attention.
A lot of old movies didn't. Look at jungle book.
"I think that's going to age just fine."
"Meeee too!"
That part was hilarious!
I like that part too
I like how he manages to use the me too in a later pitch 😂
"I think the phrase 'Me too' is going to age just fine as well."
I thought there were many poor African-Americans in the 40s who sang songs about slavery. Was that not true?
“I think that’s going to age just fine!”😂😂😂
Whoops!
SpongeBob SquarePants
Whoopsie!
Whoopsie
Whoopsie!
Aged well in terms of accuracy.
I like how where there usually is a computer in the background of the guy proposing the idea is a type writer.
I assumed it wasn't mentioned in the comments because nobody knew what it was, ; )
What's a type writer?
@@projekttaku1 i think youre being sarcastic
@@brentbrent8918 I'm not
@@projekttaku1 ...
"being a clown is very humiliating that's why so many of them turn to murder"
I swear this is one if the funniest pitch meetings yet!
I was in the right time
I'm still laughing over that line.
@@seerkambanelangovadikal8099 Or referencing real life clown murderers like John Wayne Gacy.
666 likes
How did all of y'all turn a very innocent fun video into this bullshit? Not every goddamn thing needs to be social political just have fun this is why you motherfukers are always mad
"What's World War 2?"
"Oh, look up on it, it's... it's something"
"By the way, if we get involved, I'm going to have to send you and most of our other staff over to the army to produce propaganda material."
"But we still have a bunch of movies in the works."
"Eh, that's fine. We'll just stick what we've already got done together until it's a feature length film and call it a day."
“I have bad dreams all the time. Even when I’m awake!”
Relatable.
Reality is a nightmare
It’s called 2020
@@SlothLinn oh no
@@SlothLinn Naah its called living
Can relate. I have psychosis.
"All the other storks just dropped the babies, so why is this one singing?"
Because he's that one guy that puts his all into his work.
Maybe that's even why he was late, bc he sings for all the babies he delivers
Isn't he also drunk? Or was that just Looney Tunes?
@@pkmntrainermark8881 Watched the film relatively recently and far as I can recall the only drinking is in the Pink Elephants scene, so you're probably thinking of Looney Tunes in that case.
Because the voice actor will later be Winnie the Pooh
*confused stare* "You... okay buddy?"
"Oh no..."
That killed me. Never expected these two guys who look suspiciously alike to actually have character arcs and development.
Dargonhuman shh
This part also made me LMFAO
Candy Sweetener my thoughts exactly
Candy sweetener i was about to reply that lmao
Do you mean backstory or something? I don't see how that's a character arc or development haha
Ryan telling himself "you got moxy, kid" made me so inexplicably happy
I think it might have turned me on?
Wilhelmina Beavers uuuuuuh, ok?
@@Gildedmuse eh it happens so can't blame you
Remember watching Disney movies as a kid and then thinking "you know what would make this great, a live action remake" I don't.
This is by far the funniest show on CZcams. It's not hard to get addicted, in fact it's super easy, barely an inconvenience.
You're darn tootin it is
💯
@@loganfriend8018Why you talking so fast
@@Dheifa well, son, it's the 1940s. Everyone talks like this
@@loganfriend8018 Mighty strange of you to specify the current decade
"Storks drop baby animals on the circus"
"Oh my god!"
"Softly"
"Oh okay"
The “Oh my God” kills me every time
@@bknsty14 me too xD
Yes, I laugh WAY too loud when he says that!
David Denofrio were you not dropped softly?
WKRP. Turkeys.
"Who would remake a star is born" lol
Twice even
Oh just by... different people about three different times... across multiple decades.
A Star is Born was remade *THREE TIMES.*
1937 - Original with Janet Gaynor & Fredric March
1954 - Judy Garland & James Mason
1976 - Barbara Streisand & Kris Kristofferson
2018 - Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
@@kevinthetruckdriver353 And the 1937 film is a reworking of WHAT PRICE HOLLYWOOD.
@@JoeLibby
I'm pretty sure that that movie and the 1937 version were based on Barbara Stanwyck's real life early career.
I hadn't watched Dumbo until I was an adult and showed it to my children, at which point I too was asking, "I thought this was a kids movie?!"
Try "Fox And The Hound"
If it helps everything but the alcohol bit is too deep for the kids to understand.
I watched it as a kid and thought it was a kids movie 😁
I've actually never seen it, and I'm kinda glad 😂
Back then animation was mainly for adults
With that drunk dream description I was totally expecting a "what are you doing?" to come after it
He should have made a weed joke
I’m 6 don’t do that I drunk beer
I need you to get all the way off my back for this one
I'm pretty sure there was something stronger than alcohol in that water to have all those crazy LSD dreams.😉
Why would someone need something other than spirits to explain anything....
A 1930s/1940s era pitch meeting! About time. Now you can do The Wizard Of Oz.
"Since Dorothy's chance to escape literally flew away, I guess it must be difficult for her to return to Kansas."
"Actually, it's super easy; barely an inconvenience."
Charles Lee: They can start off in black & white (pitching Kansas). Go to color (pitching Oz). Back to black & white (pitching the end of the movie) in Kansas how Dorothy's dream where the grownups where there.
Then they can pitch the sequel film, Return To Oz.
*Rant better not do a blackface version of The Wiz. Unless they pitch it in the state of Virginia.* That wouldn't be so *T I G H T ! !*
Charles Lee Do The Wiz
She never left Kansas in the first place. . . .?
David Wellman Whoops, Whoopsie!
It's a movie about a run away girl that forms a gang and kills two old ladies.
Let’s make a baby elephant, which weighs more than 200 pounds, be able to fly with some extra skin on his ears
The people who approve or reject this decision: Sounds good, approved!
Don't you know anything about science?!
Heres the thing about physics, I dont get it
Thank you! The people on the Tim burton comment section don’t understand that this movie is only meant to be a cartoon cuz it’s so ridiculous
@@EYYL39 nice reference
" Being a clown is very humiliating that's why so many turn to murder " 🥰
Um...i’m scared...why the hearts...
@@seamuswalker6879 I love that quote.... 😘
@@djtae808 you're scaring me..dark humor is TIGHT!
I died then!
@@djtae808 Aye bruh you are an comedic genius 😂😂😂😂
The Official Slogan of the Year 2020:
"I have bad dreams all the time. Even when I’m awake!”
40's-styled pitch meetings are tight!
Barry Allen what’s tight?
As a fan of old black and white movies, I agree, and they should do more. *Gasp* They should do one for Eyes Without a Face, I really like that movie.
Anything with Buster Keaton and I'm game.
@@shadowrev2914 I don't think I've seen a movie with Buster Keaton in it, I've mostly seen Horror movies from that time. Another one I like is the Beast with Five Fingers, and Diabolique was good too, also enjoyed Back From Eternity and Five Came Back.
What the heck is "tight"?
I love how the only difference in the set is having a type writer in the background instead of a computer
He took care of that plant very well. It's been around for 50 years.
@@laurocoman Taking care of the same plant for five decades is tight.
It's like when he uses a 90s computer with a tube monitor for the 90s movie pitches. Ah, that takes me back...
Hmm. There were also the colors. Or lack there of.
@@laurocoman Having plants is tight
Have not watched Dumbo since I was like 7, but that drunk scene still haunts me
I heard the pink elephants on parade song loud and clear
Truth
What producer guy should have said:
“Talking slow is the bees knees”
Teacher: why didn't you do the homework i gave you?
Me: because...
Teacher: fair enough
Teacher: where is your homework?
Me: I dont know!
Teacher: Fair enough!
Student: Whoop
Teacher :Whoopsie
Me: hey, this homework was pretty tough, can I copy your answers?
Classmate: Actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Me: Oh really?
Classmate: i'm asking you while we are writting the test, wich is annoying to you and maybe the teacher will give both of us F mark.
Me: please stop doing that
Teacher: Homeworks are tight!
Please do a pitch meeting for The Emperor’s New Groove!
Hell yeah :)!
---Kiteman
Yes!!
That movie is perfect!
@@seppyq3672 nah, it’s tight!
"I don't know but the main one is named Jim Crow"
"That's probably always gonna be an ok decision. Lock it in"
None of the crows are referred to by name in the dialogue or the credits.
And to make it worse, he's voiced by a white guy.
@@KoshVader don't start
@@_Stormfather don't start what? You see no issue with a white leader being named jim crow?
@@SeraphSeph I was talking to the guy who was bringing up the fact that he was played by a white guy. And no, I don't see anything wrong with that. The whole point of acting is to _act_ . To pretend to be someone you're not.
"You OK, buddy?" I lost it completely!
These just keep getting better and better.
“I don’t know but the main one is named Jim Crow”
“That’s probably always gonna be an okay decision lock it in” 😂😂😪
YungTony B I read tht when he said it😂
Not racist cultural depiction reference but "outdated cultural depiction"
And also, they were mostly voiced by actual black men, and are the only characters besides Timothy Mouse to treat Dumbo fairly instead of mocking him.
@@Statalyzer True, but Jim Crow? Who also happens to be voiced by a white guy. Even at the time, I don't see how they could have thought that's an okay decision.
@@KoshVader this is a common practice in voice acting to this day. Just look a Kratos who is white but has always been voiced by a black guy.
Son it's 1940s eveyone talks like this 🤣🤣🤣
Weird of you to specify what decade it is
😂🤣😂🤣
Huzaifa Khan
Talking like that in the 1940s is TIGHT
@@JC-lb3df Yer darn tootin' it's TIGHT.
Yeah this movie has problems...but the mom singing to Dumbo while she's chained up and the giant tears they both have... literally the SADDEST scene in any movie ever.
"You okay buddy?"
"Ohh no, I have bad dreams all the time even when I'm awake"
"Yeah you seem a little messed up"
One of the best yet!
“And then they trip balls.”
😂😂😂
ProudPapaJD you okay buddy ?
“By whispering the word climax into a sleeping man’s ear more than you’d expect for a kids movie.” 😂😂😂
That’s how Mafia works.
Mafia?
@@TheJeremyKentBGross The game
One of the best YouRube comments I have seen in a long time
@@texasforever6950 *Spy*
‘Tight’ in that era would have meant one was somewhat inerbriated
Drinking spiked trough water is tight!
I remember that drunk dream sequence from when I was a kid. You've really got to wonder how that ever made it into a children's movie as a good idea. I'd love to see the real pitch meeting at Disney for it.
Really? Disney are notorious for showing messed up scenes and overtly sexual behaviour...not to mention the subliminal programming etc.
@@krell2130 Overtly sexual?
Never seen that.
That drunken scene was and will always be horrifying.
That's when I knew I was twizted. I loved that scene.
PINK ELEPHANTS ON PARADE!!!
That pink elephants scene is why I never watched Dumbo as a child lol
Pretty sure there's a Pink Floyd song that would go with that sequence; their animation was always pretty horrifying.
@@lanerussell7958 There's a video that mixes it with Tame Impala's song Elephant and it's just NUTS
"Hey, this is the 1940's. What does the word 'African-American' mean?"
"I don't know."
"Fair enough."
Paul Cooke ....
😂
*African ... American*
Weird of you to specify the decade !
Would have been super awkward for the pitch meeting guys to keep using the N word
@@AndyGilleand but sadly more realistic man 1900s did not age well race wise
@@AndyGilleand Well I think it would be more likely someone from the 1940s would say 'negro' or 'coloured' cus that was considered the formal term.
This is my daughter's favorite movie... And now, thanks to you, I wont ever be able to look at it the same 😂
The moral of the story is: Alcohol unlocks your hidden amazing abilities.
And why can't Dumbo talk when literally all the other animals, including the other elephants, can?
Well he's à baby, so maybe that's why
@@BlueTigerTheLion it's either that or trauma
He traded speech for flight... just like Ariel's fins for legs
Because!
Fair enough
@Jeff Ren 😆
1940s-style movie pitches are SMASHING, OLD FELLOW!
Revenge of the Sith or Attack of the Clones pitch meeting! Without them the archives would be incomplete!
I need this
Obi-Wan Kenobi You ARE a bold one!
Hello there!
And the original trilogy, unless they already did those.
Whoopsie
"Being a clown is very humiliating, that's why so many of them turn to murder."
You deserve an Oscar and a Grammy for the accent in the first minute alone
Saw a problem:
The term "African American" didn't exist until around the 80's.
RG: "Whoops!"
RG: "Whoopsie!"
Actually the term was used in the 1800s got popular around the time you mentioned.
@Torchy Brown Not all blacks were slaves in the USA in the 1800s.
@Torchy Brown Actually the Civil Rights Act of 1866 first made blacks full citizens of the USA. After this was overturned by the Supreme Court in the infamous Dred Scott case, the 14th amendment was enacted, giving blacks full citizenship. This was followed by the 15th amendment in 1870 which ensured them the right to vote.
Furthermore, the first black U.S. Senator was Hiram Revels, elected in 1870. Blanche K. Bruce was also a black U.S. Senator, serving from 1875 to 1881. (BTW, both of these Senators were Republicans.)
These are facts, not "whitewashing history".
@Torchy Brown I notice that you have ignored the 14th and 15th amendments, which did in fact make blacks full citizens under the law. This is more than enough to disprove your original statement that "blacks were slaves in the 1800s, we were not Americans."
The fact that you are teaching otherwise is just a sad commentary on the current state of our educational system.
@Torchy Brown look it up :)
Did anyone notice the typewriter in the background?
Yeah they do that to trick you into believing it's actually the era
@@fairytailgirl123 I know. In the Toy Story and Die Hard pitch meetings, they have a Windows 95, and in basically everything else a modern computer.
Yep
yeah just commented that too... ever since episode 100 I keep an eye on the BG
Yes.
"You ok buddy?
"Oh no, I have bad dream all the time even when i m awake"
"Yeah you seem a little mess up"
that sentence hit me😂😂😂
That part about getting blackout drunk and tripping balls about elephants had me legitimately rotfl
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
The effort Ryan goes to in these videos videos is AMAZING 😱 The type writer, the black and white 😲 Best series on CZcams 🙌🏻
I know. Can you imagine how much time he had to be sitting in the makeup chair for this video? ;-)
You're right. It's so hard to use a green screen and a black and white filter. Insane
Pretty sure that part of the video takes him like 5 minutes.. .. the script writing is TIGHT! Though
@@BrianOsler It's super hard and very much an inconvenience to find makeup that turns your tongue gray. It's actually easier to just get thrush.
Yeah as my mum says "Anything worth doing at all is worth doing well."
😊
Princess bride pitch meeting
Yeah, he should do a PM on Princess Bride. Hell, while he's at it, he should also do pitch meetings on Avengers: Endgame, Home Alone, Halloween and the Wolverine movies.
The part where he describes the hallucinations gets me laughing my ass off each time. The way his speech gets frantic and his voice chocked with rage😂😂
Would love to see the pitch meeting for A Wrinkle in Time...that movie was confusing as hell!
Which one? Both were... not good.
The book was much easier to follow because it could do a bunch of weird stuff that a 100 minute movie can't touch.
The book is a masterpiece, but all attempts at making a movie of it have failed.
Spectacularly, in the case of the most recent attempt.
The actual story of the "Dumbo" pitch is pretty funny. According to the book "Mouse Under Glass" by David Koenig, the story was pitched to Walt in serialized form with installments ending on cliffhangers, in order to pique his interest. "This is good," Walt reportedly said to the writers. "What the hell happens tomorrow?"
Pretty much ANYTHING becomes interesting if given in installments.
@@cylasbreakdown6140 Pretty much anything becomes interesting if you handle the suspense right. Every sentence can have suspense.
But even with installments any story can be extremely boring if the suspense is not handled right.
@@gnuling296 I think that there are e-
Tune in next week for the thrilling conclusion of this comment!
@@alexanderkilburg7415 It's been 10 months.
The Ryan Expanded Universe has finally incorporated time travel in this epic Pitch Meeting saga!
You missed the 90s arc. It was the bomb diggity!
I never realized until now how desperately I need more old-timey pitch meetings.
Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, and on and on...
This guy is so freaking brilliant
"I have bad dreams all the time, even when I'm awake!"
Me too, buddy. Me too.
Please pitch 'Love Actually.' It's my waking nightmare.
Love the typewriter in the background instead of a computer. I hope Ryan continues to do more classics on the Pitch Meeting YT channel
"By whispering the word"climax" into a sleeping Man's ear more than you would expect from a kid's movie"😂🤣😅
"Well, THAT's quite a leap."
"No, a flight."
"Never mind."
Do a pitch meeting for "Memento"
It would be thgit
A pitch meeting non-chronologically told would be awesome!
They already did one, did you forget? :P
@@Cheesusful I did forget. Guess I should have gotten it tattooed on me somewhere as a reminder. Whoops!
@@IamBHM Whoopsie!
Jake Peralta is that you?
"You'd have to be a little unhinged to take on a project about a flying elephant"
Somehow that came across as the best compliment ever.
Make more pitch meetings about Tim Burton stuff, please - assuming they haven't already been made, and I just didn't find them yet.
"No one's going to remake A Star is Born, what would be the point of that?" got me laughing pretty hard.
Probably that so little about the entertainment industry has changed over all these decades
Shoulda done the entire video in 40’s newscaster voice
I love that the computer has been replaced with a typewriter
i noticed it too.
It is official producer guy and writer guy are immortal
"And then they turn into clowns. " The look on his face is priceless.
"You okay there buddy?" perfect comedic timing! had me in stitches!
pitcher: i'm pretty sure that dumbo flew
pitchee: that's quite a leap!
pitcher: no, a FLIGHT.
I had to go through it three times before i got the joke.
And I still don't get it
Can you explain? ty
@@alesi257 they get drunk and end up in a tree. after waking up, mouse is "pretty sure that dumbo flew". now that's quite a leap in reasoning by the mouse as to why they are in a tree. hence the comment "that's quite a leap".
Now the pitcher doesn't get this. As per his understanding, the pitchee is confused about the words "leap" and "flight". So he corrects him...
@@ruudvangorilla3221 yikes
4:07: "Are you okay, buddy?" This absolutely killed me! 😂🤣 😂🤣
God this movie is insane lol.
The computer in the background is a typewriter. I love the attention to detail for the decades even though most people may not notice.
The origin of the word “Tight”
0:23
WE NEED A DISNEY "SONG OF THE SOUTH" PITCH MEETING! .... RYAN, I DARE YOU !
No
@@trenvert123 LMAO
Hello demonization...
Yeees
Tina Fey will get it pulled.
The best of the pitch meetings are the ones with so much subtext and innuendo. Love this one.
0:01 in, and I'm already laughing at "motion pict-chah" XD
You'll be-ah stah, chicky-baby!
The next video you do should be on Mary Poppins.
Finding stuff to talk about in it should be super easy barely an inconvenience.
batshineman lol. They grazed it in the Disney plus pitch meeting. Hilarious
"We're gonna start with some storks dropping a whole bunch of baby animals onto a circus."
"Oh, my God!"
"Softly."
I could see Emperor's New Groove pitch meeting.
"It must be hard for a llama to escape a pit full of crocodiles!"
"Actually it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience."
Do 2001: A space Odyssey next!!
Dr. Strangelove
@Patrick Kiani
Very few 12 year olds watch this series; it's for adults.
4:08 to 4:14 ~ Love the line - "You okay buddy?" --- "Oh no, I have bad dreams all the time, even when I'm awake!" (LOVE)
This was great, I’d like to see some of the old classics done. You do a great job
I love these videos and the way you play the overt racism in this one was...tight. I really loved the Howard Hawks speed of the dialog in the 1st few minutes. Really well done...as always.
Can you do a Back to the future pitch meeting please.
Hahahaha!!!!
Hope this is the start of a lot of OLD Pitch Meetings.
(That would be TIGHT!)
Dang, I never realized how creepy and depressing this movie really was.
This is hilarious! Especially with the part where you talked about Dumbo tripping and say oops
Set the speed to 1.75 when they start talking normal.
I always watch them at 1.5 LOL
I love you thank.
I tried it and it was pretty funny. But then I slowed it down to half and it was even better!
"That's probably always be an ok decision. Lock it in"
Love this. More old time moving picture pitch meetings please!
If only you’d included an audio filter for old-style movies.
No one is going to remake "A star is born"
Priyo M I did a pitch meeting of that film! It’s about 3 videos of mine ago
@@JamifyYT I'll look into that
Kamen Anew ok cool :-) yeah the most recent one is a remake (201(whatever year) of a remake (1970s)of a remake (1950s) of a film (1930s)
@@JamifyYT yeah I know that part, and every version has won awards. Crazy.
Me: How’re you going to have a pitch meeting for a movie in the early 40s?
Ryan: Super Easy, Barely an Inconvenience
I love how he has put a typewriter in the background for the 40's and an old CRT TV for the 70's
More of these!!!! One of the best.
Thank you for using "inception" correctly and knowing that it doesn't mean nesting like everyone else seems to. ¬_¬
People think inception means nesting? Where are these people? I've never met any.
I'm sure they're referring to the plot of the movie Inception when they use inception to mean nesting.
The first 30seconds was just amazing. Genius!!
I love that the catch phrase transcends decades perfectly
The irony of the Pitch Meeting staff to think they needed to talk and cut FASTER. Glorious.