PinocchioPinocchio is a 1940 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the story The Adventures of Pino-cchio by Carlo Collodi.The second film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it was made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and was released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7, 1940.
Unsavory charactersThe plot of the film involves a wooden puppet named Pino-cchio (voice of Dickie Jones) being brought to life by a blue fairy (Evelyn Venable), who tells him he can become a real boy if he proves himself "brave, truthful, and unselfish".Thus begin the puppet's adventures to become a real boy, which involve many encounters with a host of unsavory characters.
"When You Wish Upon a Star"The film was adapted by Aurelius Battaglia, William Cottrell, Otto Englander, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Ted Sears, and Webb Smith from Collodi's book.The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, and the film's sequences were directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, and Bill Roberts. Pino-cchio won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "When You Wish Upon a Star".
Jiminy CricketJiminy Cricket walks into the workshop of the woodworker Mister Geppetto to warm himself from the cold, and watches as Geppetto finishes work on a puppet he names Pino-cchio.Before falling asleep, Geppetto makes a wish on a falling star that Pino-cchio could be a real boy. During the night, the Blue Fairy visits the workshop to grant Geppetto's wish and brings Pino-cchio to life, though he is still a puppet. The fairy tells Pino-cchio that if he wants to become a real boy of flesh and blood he must prove himself to be brave, truthful and unselfish and able to tell right from wrong by listening to his conscience. Pino-cchio doesn't understand what a conscience is, and Jiminy appears to explain it to him. The Blue Fairy asks if Jiminy would serve as Pino-cchio's conscience, a task he accepts.
Stromboli's star attractionGeppetto discovers that his wish has come true, and is filled with joy.The next day, he sends Pino-cchio on his first day of school. However, Pino-cchio is led astray by the conniving Honest John and Gideon, who convince him to join Stromboli's puppet show instead. Pino-cchio becomes Stromboli's star attraction, but when Pino-cchio offers to come back in the morning, Stromboli locks Pino-cchio in a birdcage to stop him leaving. With the help of the Blue Fairy and Jiminy, Pino-cchio escapes.
LampwickUnfortunately, on his way back to Geppetto's house,Pino-cchio is once again led astray by Honest John and Gideon, who convince him to go to Pleasure Island. On his way he befriends Lampwick, a misbehaved and destructive boy. Soon Pin-occhio and the other boys begin to enjoy gambling, smoking, getting drunk and destroying Pleasure Island, much to Jiminy's dismay. Then Jiminy discovers the island has a curse that transforms boys who "make jackasses of themselves" into real donkeys, who are then sold to work in the salt mines and circuses as part of an evil racket run by The Coachman. Lampwick is soon transformed into a donkey, but Pin-occhio manages to escape with a donkey's ears and tail.
MonstroUpon returning home, they find the workshop empty and soon learn from a letter by the Blue Fairy that Geppetto, while venturing out to sea to rescue Pin-occhio from Pleasure Island, had been swallowed by a giant whale named Monstro.Determined to rescue his father, Pin-occhio jumps into the bottom of the ocean, with Jiminy accompanying him. However, Pino-cchio is soon found and eaten by Monstro, where he is reunited with Geppetto and his pets inside the whale. Pin-occhio devises an escape plan by burning wood in order to make Monstro sneeze.
JiminyThe plan works, but the enraged whale gives chase.Eventually, Pin-occhio succeeds in getting Geppetto to safety in a cave under a cliff before Monstro rams into it, but Pino-cchio dies in the process. As Geppetto, Jiminy and the pets mourn the loss, the Blue Fairy decides that Pinocchio has proven himself unselfish and thus fulfills her promise to turn him into a real boy, bringing him back to life, much to the delight of Geppetto and Jiminy. Read about Pinocchio. Jiminy-Cricket here.
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