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Oct 25, 2015 · Helen Aberson and her husband, Harold Pearl, created him in 1938, when they wrote a book, "Dumbo, the Flying Elephant." Helen was a native Syracusan; Harold came here from New York City to...
“Two Syracusans, Helen and Harold Pearl, had one of their children’s stories, ‘Dumbo, the Flying Elephant,’ purchased by Disney Productions. ‘’ A headline above the story read “Headed for Fame and Fortune.’’. Dumbo Book Cover 1941. Dumbo Book Cover 1947.
Jan 14, 2010 · The 1941 softcover book, the earliest book version of Dumbo in the Disney Archives' collection when I was there in the '90s, is titled Dumbo the Flying Elephant and shows Helen Aberson (who had by then dropped Pearl from her name) and Harold Pearl as the authors, with no mention of Disney on the cover. Published by Whitman—that is, by Disney ...
HELEN ABERSON - the "Mayer" came later - was the otherwise unknown author of Dumbo, the Flying Elephant, first published in 1939 and two years later made into the famous Disney film. Born...
Helen Aberson's story of the elephant who could fly was originally published as a roll-a-book (a sort of cardboard box with a rolling paper sheet in a window much like the rolls in a player piano). You can read more about the mysterious original here: http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/...
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Helen Aberson-Mayer, author of Dumbo [1941 animated film], on LibraryThing. ... Works by Helen Aberson-Mayer. Popular Recent. Dumbo the Flying Elephant (1941) 9 copies.
Helen Aberson-Mayer (June 16, 1907 – April 3, 1999) was an American children's book author. Aberson-Mayer was best known for co-authoring the story that inspired Walt Disney's 1941 film Dumbo. In collaboration with her then husband, Harold Pearl, Aberson-Mayer wrote Dumbo the Flying Elephant and sold it to Roll-A-Book, the publisher of a kind ...
