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Pinocchio Overview:

Pinocchio (1940) was a Animation - Adventure Film directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts and Ben Sharpsteen and produced by Walt Disney.

SYNOPSIS

Walt Disney's beautiful animated feature (his second) is rich with complex and sympathetic characters, a fascinating story, and dazzling animation artistry. A brilliant piece of filmmaking, based on a story by Collodi about a puppet who is brought to life by a fairy but wants more than anything to become a real boy. Classic children's entertainment, which engages audiences at all levels. The collector's edition includes photos of the animators, early concept drawings and scene paintings, original theatrical trailers, publicity materials, an exclusive commemorative lithograph and booklet, plus a newly remastered compact disc of the film's original soundtrack.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

Pinocchio was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994.

Academy Awards 1940 --- Ceremony Number 13 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Music - ScoringLeigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned WashingtonWon
Best Music - SongMusic by Leigh Harline; Lyrics by Ned WashingtonWon
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Pinocchio BlogHub Articles:

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

By Alyson on Feb 20, 2023 From The Best Picture Project

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a beautiful work of stop-motion animation retelling the classic tale of a wooden puppet come to life. Here, Guillermo del Toro focuses more on life, death, grief and the heavy burden each of those things can be. We see how happy and complete Geppetto (voiced by Da... Read full article

Pinocchio (1940) (2)

By Beatrice on Mar 31, 2014 From Flickers in Time

Pinocchio Directed by Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske et al Written by Ted Sears et al from the story by Carlo Collodi 1940/USA Walt Disney Productions #148 of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I don’t think Disney’s second feature cartoon quite matches the first but it is good va... Read full article

Pinocchio (1940) (1)

By Kristen on Aug 25, 2012 From Journeys in Classic Film

Another edition of Journeys In the Disney Vault (took me long enough)!  Today’s film tells the tale of a little wooden boy going on a manic and frightening series of adventures.  Actually, the film details a little boy exploring the perils of kidnapping, indentured servitude, child trafficki... Read full article

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Pinocchio Quotes:

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Pinocchio Facts
The animation of the sparkles produced by the Blue Fairy's magic were designed by abstract animator Oskar Fischinger, who was working on the "Toccata and Fugue" sequence of Fantasia.
During the musical number "When You Wish Upon a Star," when a spotlight is seen on Jiminy Cricket, one is able to see two books to the left of the screen, which are "Peter Pan" and "Alice in Wonderland." Walt Disney started developing these two stories for the big screen at the time of this film's release, and they would be released in 1953 and 1951, respectively.
Stromboli's wagon was a filmed model printed on cels and painted. A similar technique was used twenty years later in One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
The August 1993 issue of Playboy cited 43 instances of violence and other unfavorable behavior in this film, including 23 instances of battery, nine acts of property damage, three slang uses of the word "jackass," three acts of violence involving animals, two shots of male nudity, and one instance of implied death.
Due to the war, the movie was not released in either Germany or Japan before the 1950s. In 1951, when the movie was released in Germany, it was dubbed with rather unknown actors. Only Horst Buchholz, as the voice of Lampwick, was to become famous in later years. In 1971, the movie was re-dubbed along with other Disney classics such as Dumbo and Bambi. The original dub is now unknown in Germany.
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