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Time had originally scheduled to run a story with an appearance cover for "Mammal of the Year" (a play on its annual "Man/Person of the Year" honor) on December 8, 1941.
The date is wrong: TIME says the Dumbo “Mammal-of-the-Year” story was scheduled for December 29, 1941, not December 8, 1941.
Full reasoning
This sentence misdates TIME's planned Dumbo feature.
TIME's own retrospective on the episode says “The accompanying story was scheduled to run on December 29”. TIME's archive also shows the actual “Cinema: Mammal-of-the-Year” article in the December 29, 1941 issue. That directly contradicts the article's claim that the story had originally been scheduled for December 8, 1941.
So the problem is not that the story existed — it did — but that the cited planned/publication date in this sentence is off by three weeks.
2 sources
- How Dumbo Almost Ended Up on the Cover of TIME | TIME
The accompanying story was scheduled to run on December 29 and would anoint Dumbo the "Mammal-of-the-Year."
- Cinema: Mammal-of-the-Year | TIME
TIME December 29, 1941 ... Cinema: Mammal-of-the-Year
Disneyland
Listing “Disneyland” as the label for a 1941 Dumbo soundtrack release is anachronistic. Disneyland Records was created in 1956; the original 1941 Dumbo soundtrack was released by RCA Victor.
Full reasoning
The soundtrack infobox labels a 1941 release as being on Disneyland, but Disney's own label history shows that Disneyland Records was not created until 1956.
Disney's official history says that for more than two decades Disney licensed its audio rights to outside companies, and that “in 1956 Walt Disney authorized the creation of a company-owned record production and distribution entity under the name ‘Disneyland Records.’” A contemporary discography of Disney records identifies the original Dumbo soundtrack album as RCA Victor Records P-101, released November 14, 1941, and notes that the Disneyland Records LP version was first released in 1957.
That means a 1941 Dumbo soundtrack release could not have had Disneyland as its label.
2 sources
- Walt Disney Records - History
After more than two decades of licensing the audio recording rights for Disney product to others, in 1956 Walt Disney authorized the creation of a company-owned record production and distribution entity under the name "Disneyland Records."
- Walt Disney's "Dumbo" Soundtrack on Records
Walt Disney's DUMBO Recorded from the Sound Track of the Film RCA Victor Records P-101 ... Released on November 14th, 1941 ... Disneyland Records ... First released in 1957.