![]() ![]() Later on, Casey encounters a streamlined train charging towards him and closing in fast, at which he desperately called for a nearby railroad switch lever to wake up and change the track, which it did. At one point during the excursion, he gets into conflict with a steamboat over the right of way on a drawbridge that spans the river, before overcoming him and causing the drawbridge to close on and push down on the steamboat into the water and comes up again coughing up all the water in him. In this scene, Casey was, in fact, pulling a passenger train to Cleveland, Ohio. This demonstration takes the form of an extended train journey, though it is hard to say whether this was truly a deleted scene from an early version of Dumbo or simply new animation created for the purposes of the demonstration. In this live-action/animated tour of the Walt Disney Studios in 1941, a work-in-progress scene of Casey is used to demonstrate the creation of sound effects for animation as well as the vocoder device used to create his voice. ![]() Dumbo happily reunites with his mother and as Casey happily travels to the next destination, the crows bid a farewell to Dumbo, wishing him good luck. While the Crows and Elephants are singing a reprise of " When I See an Elephant Fly", Casey’s steam whistle is heard adding to the harmonization of the song. He is also pulling another car, a private car for Dumbo. Later in the film, after Dumbo was unable to reach the top of the pyramid of elephants in the act, due to the tent collapsing, Casey travels sadly throughout a rainy night whistling a sad melody as the elephants exclude Dumbo from their act and he is put into the clown act.Īt the end of the film where Dumbo becomes a circus star, a happy Casey is seen wearing a wreath of flowers around him, smiling with joy. A second later, Casey starts to rest in for the night and the workers and animals begin setting up the circus tent. He hits the brakes so hard that the cars he is hauling bump into one another and bounce the animals around, waking them up for work. Later that stormy night, Casey stops at the station where the circus will be built at for the next day. Jumbo is waiting in the Elephant car as he delivers her a newborn baby elephant named "Jumbo Junior" by his mother, whom the elephants call him "Dumbo". Stork arrives late and flies towards Casey Junior, where Mrs. Although anxious to get started at first, Casey travels across the American countryside from the Winter Headquarters very bravely. After all the animals successfully board the circus cars, the Ringmaster then shouts "All aboard" so that Casey can get ready to travel to the spot where the circus will perform. While the sound of the voice resembles that of one processed through a vocoder, it was actually done with a more primitive device, a Sonovox, which uses one or two small loudspeakers in contact with the throat, which allowed Margaret Wright, the 'voice actor', to "speak" by modulating an artificially produced sound with her mouth.Īt the beginning of the film, the circus workers get all the animals ready on Casey's circus train, including Mrs. He uses his steam cylinders like limbs, giving him the ability to shrug, point and make other gestures. In addition, he can twist and flex his metal body to express motion. For example, when the Ringmaster calls, "All aboard! All aboard!", he says in response, "All aboard! Let's go!".Īs is the case with most of Disney's early cartoon vehicles, Casey has the ability to move more fluidly than real-life locomotives, and his boiler is often seen bending and twisting like rubber when in motion. ![]() He is shown to be somewhat sentient and speaks through his whistle. His wheel pistons are often used as "arms", like when he has to climb up a difficult mountain.Ĭasey is a 2-4-0 American steam tender locomotive hauling the WDP Circus train, and he even has his own theme song and appears frequently throughout the film. The latter has a vague shape of a face, with two headlights in place of eyes and a cylinder-shaped structure protruding forward functioning as his nose. Casey is a 2-4-0 American steam tender locomotive with a small, four-wheeled tender full of coal at the back, a big, tall smokestack, a small headlamp in a engineer's cap-shaped casing, a tall steam dome with a whistle on top, and a small cowcatcher on his front.
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