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#Dumbo’sCircus
#Dumbo’sCircus
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00:00the behind-the-scenes video is celebrating the 10th anniversary of this tv show if you were born
00:16after 1979 chances are you are a member of the big top generation
00:21we used to sing along to that song even in fifth grade i shouldn't have said that i had never seen
00:31anyone that was my size i'd always answer back and i'd think she'd totally hear me and if you
00:37became a parent any time in the last decade chances are that you love this show too we all seem to tend
00:43to agree on just about everything seem to tend to yep yeah seem to seem to kind of tend to i remember
00:49doing one of the first things that we did bobby and i were the bobby socks or shoes but most people
00:56don't know is that behind the adorable 12 year old behind the alley cat the chief lieutenant the cowboy
01:03clown and their entire condiment families was a very old school creative team they were all babies
01:09you know they were fresh out of college and i just had to trust them disney executives charge the young
01:16trio with a special mission create an entertainment show for the network's youngest viewers we do believe
01:21that kids come to tv with an active mind we had done so much research to create games where the kids
01:28at home feel like they're playing along this show was born after the 1941 disney animated film and in a
01:34cramped conference room in the summer of 83 at the time and i didn't even realize that i was a little
01:40person i don't think they ever left and if you just slide pizza under the door i have only six
01:46peanuts left from there on you went to the circus or what should you go to the circus first no i went
01:53to the circus after we did the carnival show if the animation is a success the team put out the call
01:59for the music to make it look circusy i got a call from tracy i think you guys would be great to do
02:03the music the shoe song i remembered we don't know but walt disney was already eyeing a show featuring
02:10a feline so they created an idea for it well that's wonderful because i think you're the last
02:16remaining last speaker no no no no there are many there are many voice actor will ryan was picked to
02:21prep the character into style yes we're doing uh i guess it's called a podcast or it's a show or it's a
02:28video yeah they used to say video show thing disney execs knew this elephant for tots would be more
02:36than just a sound dumbo head bite and dumbo got clothes so the team moved forward next step find the
02:43boss some of the scenes in the movie sell it right they'll chunk it up and put little bits here and
02:50you'll see you know christopher walken or or whoever chris bratt with somebody named chris i always say
02:55that i uh i learned my profession by getting kicked out of class a lot you know i would be
02:59doing the dolphin noises or a squirrel in the back of the room well we don't have those here at
03:05st columbia mr cummings and then then ryan reynolds comes in and eats their lunch takes his shirt off
03:10boom yeah is that really true while others aspire to skidoo alongside the boss a test audience of kids
03:17made the final casting call lots of people have asked me how i practiced for the highway i'll show you
03:24then there's lily channeling betty boop there was just something about this kid who was fresh out of
03:30pennsylvania who just knew where to look in the camera to really talk to kids he was just right when
03:36those characters are ready in place every member of team they pitched in to play a part
03:41now when i think about what i'm going to do each week one of the things i do is i start to play
03:46around with the placements remember we talked about the voice placements so because i like to i like to
03:52come up with ideas not just about articulation but how you can learn to use those placements
03:58to create characters because it was all it was made of like plastic all right molded to my face
04:07and i can't stop looking at him
04:10and i can't stop looking at him
04:10and i can't stop looking at him