Pinocchio

 

Pinocchio is the second film in the Disney animated features canon. It was produced by Buena Vista Distribution and was originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7, 1940. The film was theatrically re-released in 1945, 1954, 1962,1971, 1978, 1984, and 1992. Pinocchio was made in response to the enormous worldwide success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Based on the book Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi , the film stars a cricket who becomes the conscience of a wooden marionette - brought to life by a fairy - as they face the challenges and dangers of a dark and hostile world of crooks, villains and monsters.

Though Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is generally considered to be Walt Disney's most significant contribution to cinema,Pinocchio is considered his greatest achievement and representative of the Disney studio at the peak of its golden age,^[1]as well as one of the greatest achievements in animation.^[2]Many people list it as their favorite Disney movie because they had many memories watching the movie. Many people consider Pinocchio to be one of the most critically acclaimed of all the Disney animated features and one of the greatest animated films of all time,Pinocchio has never been commercially successful, perhaps as a result of its dark atmosphere and several intense and frightening sequences.^[3] On its first release, Disney only recouped about half of its $2.6 million budget in 1940.

The plan for the original film was considerably different from what was released. Numerous characters and plot points, many of which came from the original novel, were used in early drafts. Walt Disney was displeased with the work that was being done and called a halt to the project midway into production so that the concept could be rethought and the characters redesigned. It was at this stage that the character of the cricket was expanded.Jiminy Cricket,voiced by Cliff Edwards, became central to the story.^[4]

The song "When You Wish Upon a Star," became a major hit and is still identified with the film, and later as a fanfare for Walt Disney Studios itself. Pinocchio also won the Academy Award for Best Song and the Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture. The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and in 1994 was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, and in the second slot, behind only Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in the American Film Institute’s Top ten Animated Feature Films of all time in 2008.

                                                                                           Source : Disney Wiki

 

For more History :

PINOCCHIO'S REAL ROOTS MAPPED:

http://news.discovery.com/history/pinocchio-fictional-home-110708.html

OTHER :

http://www.childrenstory.info/childrenstories/pinocchio.html

Some model sheets practice for Pinocchio :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Pinocchio animators identification and scene sequence visit the below link , it shows the identification of animators that creates the frame and sequence of frame to create the hole movie .

http://mayersononanimation.blogspot.in/search/label/Pinocchio?updated-max=2007-08-18T20:22:00-04:00&max-results=20&start=20&by-date=false

LATER ON I’LL POST MORE CHRACTER DESIGN SHEETS AND VINTAGE SHEETS OF PINOCCHIO .

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