Ah Dumbo, you are my favorite...

“I can stand the sight of worm and look at microscopic germs but Technicolor pachyderm is really too much for me.
I am not the type to faint when things are odd or things are quaint, but seeing things you know that ain't can certainly give you an awful fright. What a sight!
Chase 'em away! Chase 'em away! I'm afraid. Need your aid. Pink elephants on parade.”

Silly Lyrics of one of my all-time favourite classic movies: Dumbo (directed by Ben Sharpsteen)

Nonsense really, but I’ve recently come across a copy of this 64min film. I’m starting to think that when I use to watch it when I was young, it triggered some sort of fascination towards the circus, or maybe it might have been the train, Casey Jr., or maybe just the plain old absurdity to Dumbo’s hallucination when he gets drunk. You’d think for a family movie that this would be more kid appropriate, but you just have to love Disney’s ambiguous animation ideas! It’s great!

So putting aside the fact that it’s about a flying elephant, I have to put emphasis on the little steam locomotive that could. Literally! I always hated the part when the train climbed up that hill and pumped out sum weird noise. I hated it because it made no sense and sounded so weird! It didn’t chug like a normal train, but I was scared of a lot of things when it came to movies in my childhood. So watching this movie again lately, I then realized that the train wasn’t just making some strange sound, but he was actually saying “I think I can! I think I can!” and then once going downhill “I thought I could! I thought I could!” It wasn’t a bizarre noise at all, but him just saying those two lines through his chime whistle making it all sound so distorted.

But I guess, when your young, you don’t really pay attention to these things because it’s usually all about the visual an not so much about the context. - At least, that's how it worked for me anyways...