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Pinocchio (1940)
Genre:
Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical (more)
Tagline: Pure enjoyment... with no strings attached. [1984 re-release] (more)
Plot Outline: A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. (more)
User Comments:
When "Pinocchio" came out it was suddenly apparent that "Snow White" had been a mere ranging shot.
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User Rating:
 
7.6/10 (8,376 votes)
Runtime:
88 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Denmark:A / Argentina:Atp / Australia:G / Canada:F (Ontario) / Chile:TE / Finland:S / Germany:o.Al. / Sweden:Btl / UK:U / USA:G (1970) / Brazil:Livre
Trivia:
Mel Blanc, well known for performing the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and many other cartoon characters, was hired to perform the voice of Gideon the Cat. However, it was eventually decided that Gideon should be mute, and all of Blanc's recorded dialogue was cut, save one solitary hiccup.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When trying to free Pinocchio from Stromboli's cage, Jiminy Cricket takes his jacket and hat off and put them on the padlock. In a later scene, they are no longer there.
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Quotes:
Pinocchio:
[has just reunited with Gepetto] Hey, Father! Father!
Geppetto:
Don't bother me now, Pinocchio! What? Pinocchio?
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars.
Another 2 wins
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User Comments:
2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
When "Pinocchio" came out it was suddenly apparent that "Snow White" had been a mere ranging shot., 16 August 2000
Author:
Spleen from Canberra, Australia
There are a hundred great things about "Pinocchio". Pleasure Island, for
one. I'm amazed how quick the Disney artists were to discover that the
multiplane camera, as well as providing accurate perspective and spectacular
landscape shots, could be used more subtly to suggest sinister murk. (We
get a similar effect in "Fantasia" in the first half of "The Rite of
Spring".) And Lampwick's transformation into a donkey is a disturbing
moment, for many reasons ... today they might have made the mistake of using
flashy computer morphing, which would have been a mistake: expert animation
and cutting gives us the distinct impression - almost all done with shadows
- that there is a donkey BREAKING THROUGH from inside; which, in his case,
is metaphorically accurate. (Probably the reason Pinocchio survives us that
he is as free from native vice as from native virtue. He must LEARN to
adopt the mind-set of Pleasure Island. This takes time: time enough for him
to escape.)
But there's much, much more: clever use of songs (note the obvious, but none
the less effective, irony of "I've Got No Strings"); daring use of stark
WHITE backgrounds as well dense crowded ones; an intelligent, mythic story;
a wonderful dash of humanity in the form of a cricket; a good musical score;
rich atmosphere. The last is hard to describe. Of all Disney's films this
one has the most pronounced Old World feeling, yet it doesn't seem to take
place anywhere in particular - not even in Italy. Nor does it seem to take
place in any particular era. I fear that no modern film could be so
imprecisely evocative; the artistic innocence in which "Pinocchio" was
forged may be lost forever.
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