Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1883 Italian children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It was the second animated feature film produced by Disney, made after the first animated success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
- Starring : Cliff Edwards / Dickie Jones
- Genre : Animation / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Musical
- Country : United States
- Language : English
- Director : Norman Ferguson / T. Hee / Wilfred Jackson / Jack Kinney / Hamilton Luske / Bill Roberts / Ben Sharpsteen
- Production : Walt Disney Animation Studios / Walt Disney Productions
- Distributor : RKO Radio Pictures / RKO Distributing Corporation of Canada / RKO Pictures (Australasia) / RKO Radio Pictures Argentina / RKO Radio Films A/S / Radio Cinéma / RKO Radio Filmgesellschaft / Sascha Filmverleih / Buena Vista Distribution Company / CFM Filmverhuur / Cinema International Corporation (CIC) / Triangelfilm / 20th Century Fox Argentina / Columbia Pictures of Argentina / Walt Disney Productions / Greater Union Organisation (GUO) / Walt Disney Home Video / Walt Disney Telecommunications and Non-Theatrical Company / Disney Channel / Buena Vista Pictures / Abril Vídeo / Buena Vista Home Video / Image Entertainment / Gativideo / Kommunenes Filmcentral (KF) / Buena Vista Home Entertainment / American Broadcasting Company (ABC) / ABC Family / Disney Blu-ray / Walt Disney Home Entertainment / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment / Channel 5 Television / Columbia Pictures / Daiei / Disney+ / PolyGram Video
Pinocchio movie
Pinocchio release date
- February 7, 1940 : USA (New York City, New York) (premiere)
- February 9, 1940 : USA (Los Angeles, California)
- February 10, 1940 : USA (Miami, Florida)
- February 14, 1940 : USA (Baltimore, Maryland)
- February 16, 1940 : USA (D.C., Washington)
- February 23, 1940 : USA
- March 23, 1940 : UK (London)
- May 13, 1940 : UK
- May 16, 1940 : Australia
- September 6, 1940 : Ireland
- February 3, 1941 : Sweden
- May 13, 1942 : Switzerland (German speaking region)
- February 7, 1944 : Spain (Madrid)
- October 17, 1945 : USA (re-release)
- March 17, 1946 : UK (re-release) (London)
- April 8, 1946 : UK (re-release)
- May 22, 1946 : France (Paris)
- October 2, 1946 : France
- May 17, 1952 : Japan
- October 7, 1952 : Philippines (Davao)
- February 18, 1954 : USA (re-release)
- July 4, 1954 : France (re-release)
- December 26, 1954 : Sweden (re-release)
- December 15, 1958 : Japan (re-release)
- December 18, 1961 : UK (re-release)
- January 18, 1962 : USA (re-release)
- April 14, 1963 : Spain (re-release)
- November 24, 1963 : France (re-release)
- April 25, 1968 : Sweden (re-release)
- July 9, 1970 : UK (re-release)
- March 20, 1971 : Japan (re-release)
- July 7, 1971 : USA (re-release)
- April 1, 1974 : Spain (re-release)
- December 10, 1975 : France (re-release)
- May 27, 1978 : Sweden (re-release)
- December 15, 1978 : USA (re-release)
- June 9, 1982 : Spain (re-release)
- March 23, 1983 : France (re-release)
- July 23, 1983 : Japan (re-release)
- December 21, 1984 : USA (re-release)
- August 22, 1985 : Australia (re-release)
- July 18, 1986 : UK (re-release)
- April 18, 1987 : Australia (re-release)
- June 26, 1992 : USA (re-release)
- September 1, 1994 : Germany (re-release)
- September 29, 2013 : Sweden (Cinemateket, Stockholm) (re-release)
- June 7, 2015 : France (re-release)
Pinocchio cast
- Mel Blanc as Gideon (hiccoughs)(uncredited) (voice)
- Don Brodie as Carnival Barker (uncredited) (voice)
- Stuart Buchanan as Carnival Barker (uncredited) (voice)
- Walter Catlett as J. Worthington Foulfellow (uncredited) (voice)
- Marion Darlington as Birds (uncredited) (voice)
- Frankie Darro as Lampwick (uncredited) (voice)
- Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket (uncredited) (voice)
- Dickie Jones as Pinocchio / Alexander (uncredited) (voice)
- Charles Judels as Stromboli / The Coachman (uncredited) (voice)
- John McLeish as Carnival Barker (uncredited) (voice)
- Clarence Nash as Figaro / Rough House Statue / Donkeys (uncredited) (voice)
- Patricia Page as Marionettes (uncredited) (voice)
- Christian Rub as Geppetto (uncredited) (voice)
- Bill Thompson as Whistling Saw (uncredited)
- Evelyn Venable as The Blue Fairy (uncredited) (voice)
The plot involves an old wood-carver named Geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named Pinocchio. The puppet is brought to life by a blue fairy, who informs him that he can become a real boy if he proves himself to be “brave, truthful, and unselfish”. Pinocchio’s efforts to become a real boy involve encounters with a host of unsavory characters. The key character of Jiminy Cricket does not appear in the original book, though a 100-year “wise, old” cricket does. The cricket warns Pinocchio of his impudence when they meet only to be killed in return shortly after. The film was adapted by several screenwriters 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, machinery and natural elements such as rain, lightning, smoke, shadows and water. The film was released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7, 1940.
Although it became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award – winning two for Best Music, Original Score and for Best Music, Original Song for “When You Wish Upon a Star” – it was initially a box office bomb, mainly due to World War II cutting off the European and Asian markets overseas. It eventually made a profit in its 1945 reissue, 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 in 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 April 2015, a live-action adaptation had officially entered development.
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