"The Boy Who Owned a Melephant" is a 1959 American film short directed by Saul Swimmer and featuring Tallulah Bankhead as narrator.Synopsis
After seeing his first circus, young Johnnie (Brockman Seawell) asks for an elephant to keep as a pet. To placate him, his mother (Molly Turner) whimsically "gives" him the elephant in the local zoo. The boy's classmates resent his pride in "owning" the pachyderm, and the boy learns to share, making his peers equal "owners".
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