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Jumbo Pictures

Animation studio

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Jumbo Pictures was an American animation studio founded by Jim Jinkins and David Campbell on July 20, 1990. On February 29, 1996, Disney, which had completed its purchase of ABC nearly 3 weeks prior on February 9, purchased Jumbo Pictures, primarily to add Doug to their roster of properties. Jumbo Pictures' Doug had been a key show of Disney's One Saturday Morning since 1997. Jumbo Pictures also made one film, Doug's 1st Movie, in 1999. The studio dissolved on October 15, 2000.

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“Jumbo Pictures” enters the record as animation studio. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jumbo, Pictures and Animation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1996, 1997, 1999—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jumbo, Pictures and Animation.
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“Jumbo Pictures” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jumbo, Pictures and Animation provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1996, 1997 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jumbo Pictures” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.