Director Tim Burton’s live-action repurposing of the animated 1941 feature “Dumbo” offers more of many things: more mayhem, more angst, twice the unethical-treatment-of-animals pathos and five times ...

The animators wanted to join the Screen Cartoonists Guild, a move Walt Disney resisted. Workers staged a walkout, and on July 9, 1941, Variety reported, “There was the added charge that subversive and ...

Up through December 1941, almost all TIME covers had featured a close-cropped, solemn portrait of a man. That month, however, editors prepared something quite different: a cartoon elephant. Two months ...