The Stork himself doesn't make the babies he just delivers them. Some kind of adoption agency or something?
shareThey get made by clouds, silly.
shareWas that sarcastic? Because they definitely aren't made by clouds. lol
shareI humbly beg to differ. Do a Wikipedia search on "Partly Cloudy"
[edit: I just did the search myself, and it turns out that my answer was more accurate than I thought:
Sohn says his idea for the film came from watching Dumbo as a child. In the movie, a stork delivers Dumbo. This made him wonder where the bird gets the babies from. He decided the babies came from clouds and so that is why birds have to deliver them.share
.....................The original story behind Storks delivering babies is a very old story. It goes all the way to the 18th century. Sohn is not old enough to state that the story behind storks bringing babies is that babies originated from clouds. He was born in 1977. From your own very paragraph, it states that he WONDERED where the bird gets the babies from. From that, HE (Sohn) decided to make a film, that was created in 2009!, and just start a new storyline that clouds created babies. He was INSPIRED by Dumbo. The stork story that was originally created in the 18th century does not support Sohn's views, however I do know that in DUMBO (which was created in 1941, where Sohn still was not born), made reference to babies coming from heaven. So if the question is where are babies made as it pertains to DUMBO, the answer is Heaven. The story from the 18th century? I have no idea. But I do know it's not from clouds, unless you want to believe a story that was created several years after the original story. (shrugs)
shareWhere do the Babies come from?
It's funny, but this line of thinking was what inspired Peter Sohn to play the short 'Partly Cloudy' for PIXAR.
So, one could assume that short is a little answer.
(P.s. Peter made that short as a small tribute to his Mom)
"Thanks, guys." "So long, partner."
- Toy Story 3 (9/10)
I always remember Hans Christian Andersen's story about storks and babies.
Here's an excerpt, but you can read the complete story by following that link:
“I have thought upon the best way to be revenged. I know the pond in which all the little children lie, waiting till the storks come to take them to their parents. The prettiest little babies lie there dreaming more sweetly than they will ever dream in the time to come. All parents are glad to have a little child, and children are so pleased with a little brother or sister. Now we will fly to the pond and fetch a little baby for each of the children who did not sing that naughty song to make game of the storks.”
“But the naughty boy, who began the song first, what shall we do to him?” cried the young storks.
“There lies in the pond a little dead baby who has dreamed itself to death,” said the mother. “We will take it to the naughty boy, and he will cry because we have brought him a little dead brother. But you have not forgotten the good boy who said it was a shame to laugh at animals: we will take him a little brother and sister too, because he was good. He is called Peter, and you shall all be called Peter in future.”
So they all did what their mother had arranged, and from that day, even till now, all the storks have been called Peter.
According to European folklore, the stork is responsible for bringing babies to new parents. The legend is very ancient, but was popularized by a 19th-century Hans Christian Andersen story called "The Storks". German folklore held that storks found babies in caves or marshes and brought them to households in a basket on their backs or held in their beaks. These caves contained adebarsteine or "stork stones". The babies then would be given to the mother or dropped down the chimney. Households would notify when they wanted children by placing sweets for the stork on the window sill. From there the folklore has spread around the world to countries such as the Philippines and South America. Birthmarks on the back of the head of newborn baby, nevus flammeus nuchae, are sometimes referred to as stork-bite.
In Slavic mythology and religion, storks were thought to carry unborn souls from Iriy to Earth in spring and summer. This belief still persists in the modern folk culture of many Slavic countries, in the simplified child story that "storks bring children into the world". Storks were seen by the Slavs as bringing luck, and killing one would bring misfortune. A long-term study that showed a spurious correlation between the numbers of stork nests and human births is widely used in the teaching of basic statistics as an example to highlight that correlation does not necessarily indicate causation.The child-bringing myth has appeared in different forms in history.
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Sterling Holloway did his very first Disney (and generally speaking) cartoon role here. He'd already been known, as Disney's 1933(?) plan for Sleepy the dwarf initially was for him to be like Sterling Holloway (names of later, WB and United Features/Peanuts,Inc. icons respectively Daffy and Snoopy were chosen for Snow White's dwarfs. The stork would return in the studio's l;ater Lambert, the Sheepish Lion with the same voice).