Who was Jumbo the Elephant? Jumbo was a huge African bush elephant that was born around Christmas 1860 in Sudan. He was then transported to a zoo in Paris before being transferred to London zoo and ...

The best scene in Steven Spielberg’s 1979 comedy 1941 has Robert Stack as an Army general crying while sitting in a theater. He’s watching the poignant scene in Dumbo where a caged Mrs. Jumbo rocks ...

Walt Disney’s 1941 animation Dumbo was a huge favourite in our house when my children were little. They were captivated by the story of the baby circus elephant with ears so big they enabled him to ...

HE was the animal superstar who drew crowds in their millions and inspired Disney favourite Dumbo. An instant hit when he arrived at London Zoo in 1865, Jumbo the African elephant could count Queen ...

It was an elephantastic time yesterday as the circus came to Brooklyn. Eight Asian elephants with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus stomped on watermelons and other fruit before lifting ...

Disney’s recent spate of remakes have been an interesting set of experiments in repeat storytelling, from wildly different takes on the source material (The Jungle Book) to updates that feel like ...

Tech startups and digital advertising companies have flocked to Dumbo throughout the past decade, drawn to the neighborhood's industrial lofts that eschew Midtown's buttoned-down culture. Now Dumbo's ...