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- Beck, Brian
Duration: 3 minutes
Description: Technicolor Pachyderms, a concert march in circus march style, was inspired by the 1941 Disney animated feature film DUMBO, which featured music by Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace. The story of an elephant with big ears, said to have been discovered in a cereal box that arrived at the Disney story department in 1939, opened to audiences troubled by the war raging in Europe. The triumphant story of an underdog, a little elephant that was different from the others, provided much needed release. The title Technicolor Pachyderms comes from an inspired sequence in the film, Pink Elephants on Parade, depicting the consequences of falling into a barrel of pickle juice and the hallucinogenic effects it has on the baby elephant.