The hardest part of the production was making Pinocchio a sympathetic character. The name "Pinocchio" literally means "little wooden head."ģ. It was published as a book two years later.Ģ. Carlo Collodi wrote the original novel in installments in an Italian magazine in 1881. Here, then, are 25 things you probably didn't know about "Pinocchio." May our noses grow if we're lying.ġ. Still, as indelibly as "Pinocchio" has been imprinted on your memory, there may be plenty you don't know about the film, from who voiced the characters to the technical breakthroughs behind it to the unusual lawsuit threatened by the author's nephew.
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And the opening tune, Jiminy Cricket's "When You Wish Upon a Star," is ubiquitous as the theme music played before every Walt Disney movie and home video release. Everyone's image of the puppet-boy with the nose that grows when he lies comes not from Carlo Collodi's original novel but from the kid with the Tyrolean hat and the Mickey Mouse gloves, as drawn by Disney animators.
Today, of course, the legacy of "Pinocchio" is inescapable.
Upon its New York City premiere, on February 7, 1940, critics hailed the film as a masterpiece, and even to this day, many prefer it to Disney's pioneering first animated feature, 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Yet it took the film many years and multiple re-releases to make a profit. Given how revered Disney's " Pinocchio" is today, it's hard to believe it was a flop when it was first released exactly three quarters of a century ago.
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