Pinocchio (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Dickie Jones
Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited)
Cliff Edwards
Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited)
Christian Rub
Geppetto (voice) (uncredited)
Evelyn Venable
The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited)
Walter Catlett
'Honest John' Worthington Foulfellow (voice) (uncredited)
Mel Blanc
Gideon (hiccup) (voice) (uncredited)
Charles Judels
Stromboli / The Coachman (voice) (uncredited)
Frankie Darro
Lampwick (voice) (uncredited)
Don Brodie
Carnival Barker (voice) (uncredited)
Marion Darlington
Birds (voice) (uncredited)
John McLeish
Carnival Barker (voice) (uncredited)
Patricia Page
Marionettes (voice) (uncredited)
Thurl Ravenscroft
Monstro the Whale (uncredited)
Stuart Buchanan
Carnival Barker (voice) (uncredited)
Ben Sharpsteen
Director
Webb Smith
Adaptation
Leigh Harline
Original Music Composer / Songs
Joseph Sabo
Adaptation
Ted Sears
Adaptation
Mary Daily
Children
Hamilton Luske
Director
Carlo Collodi
Novel
William Cottrell
Adaptation
Erdman Penner
Adaptation
Aurelius Battaglia
Adaptation
Otto Englander
Adaptation
Paul J. Smith
Original Music Composer
Walt Disney
Producer
Merle Cox
Background Designer
Wolfgang Reitherman
Animation / Animation Director
John Lounsbery
Animation
Claude Coats
Background Designer
Jack Campbell
Animation
Eric Larson
Animation / Animation Director
Joshua Meador
Animation
Frank Thomas
Animation / Animation Director
Fred Moore
Animation / Animation Director
Milt Kahl
Animation / Animation Director
Ward Kimball
Animation / Animation Director
Ollie Johnston
Animation
Bob McCrea
Animation
Charles A. Nichols
Animation
Charles Philippi
Art Direction
John P. Miller
Characters
Don Patterson
Animation
Bill Tytla
Animation Director
Al Zinnen
Art Direction
Don Lusk
Animation
Albert Hurter
Characters
George Rowley
Animation
Les Clark
Animation
Hugh Hennesy
Art Direction
Campbell Grant
Characters
Martin Provensen
Characters
Dick Kelsey
Art Direction
John Hubley
Art Direction
Hugh Fraser
Animation
Terrell Stapp
Art Direction
Robert Martsch
Animation
Norman Tate
Animation
John McManus
Animation
Marvin Woodward
Animation
Ed Starr
Background Designer
Don Towsley
Animation
John Elliotte
Animation
Joe Grant
Characters
Thor Putnam
Art Direction
Lynn Karp
Animation
Art Palmer
Animation
Preston Blair
Animation
Art Babbitt
Animation Director
Bernard Wolf
Animation
McLaren Stewart
Art Direction
Jack Bradbury
Animation
Don Tobin
Animation
Ken Anderson
Art Direction
Kendall O'Connor
Art Direction
John Walbridge
Characters
Ray Huffine
Background Designer
Frank Churchill
Music
Edward H. Plumb
Music
Jack Kinney
Director / Co-Director
Bill Roberts
Director / Co-Director
T. Hee
Director / Co-Director
Norman Ferguson
Director / Co-Director
Wilfred Jackson
Director / Co-Director
Ned Washington
Lyricist
Bruce Bushman
Art Direction
Media.
Details.
Release DateFebruary 23, 1940
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Content RatingG
Budget$2,600,000
Box Office$164,000,000
Genres
Wiki.
Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, it is the second Disney animated feature film, and the third animated film overall produced by an American film studio, after Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Fleischer Studios' Gulliver's Travels. With the voices of Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Walter Catlett, Charles Judels, Evelyn Venable, and Frankie Darro, the film follows a wooden puppet Pinocchio, who is created by an old woodcarver Geppetto and brought to life by a blue fairy. Wishing to become a real boy, Pinocchio must prove himself to be "brave, truthful, and unselfish." Along his journey, Pinocchio encounters several characters representing the temptations and consequences of wrongdoing, as Jiminy Cricket, who takes the role of Pinocchio's conscience, attempts to guide him in matters of right and wrong.
The film was adapted by several storyboard artists 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. Pinocchio was a groundbreaking achievement in the area of effects animation, giving realistic movement to vehicles and machinery as well as natural elements such as rain, water, lightning, smoke, and shadow. After premiering at the Center Theatre in New York City on February 7, 1940, Pinocchio was released in theatres on February 23, 1940.
Although it received critical acclaim and became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award β winning two for Best Music, Original Score and for Best Music, Original Song for "When You Wish Upon a Star" β it was initially a commercial failure, mainly due to World War II cutting off the European and Asian markets. It eventually made a profit after its 1945 rerelease, and is considered one of the greatest animated films ever made, with a 100% rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes. The film and characters are still prevalent in popular culture, featuring at various Disney parks and other forms of entertainment. In 1994, Pinocchio was added to the United States National Film Registry for being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."In 2000, a live-action made-for-television film titled Geppetto, told from Geppetto's perspective, was released via ABC. A live-action remake of the same title directed by Robert Zemeckis was released in 2022 on Disney+.