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  1. Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

    • Cliff Edwards

      Edwards appeared in the darkly sardonic western comedy The...

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      Geppetto (/ dʒ ə ˈ p ɛ t oʊ / jə-PET-oh Italian:...

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      The Coachman appears in the 1940 film adaptation by Walt...

  2. Pinocchio: Directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen. With Mel Blanc, Don Brodie, Stuart Buchanan, Walter Catlett. A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

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    • Animation, Adventure, Comedy
    • Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson
    • 1940-02-23
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    Pinocchio, American animated film, released in 1940, that is one of Walt Disney’s most beloved classics, known for its brilliant animation and compelling story.

    Adapted from a novel by C. Collodi, it chronicles the adventures of a wooden puppet whose lonely maker, Geppetto, wishes were a real boy. A fairy grants his wish by bringing the puppet, Pinocchio, to life, but she tells Pinocchio that he must prove his worth before she will make him into a human boy. Under the guidance of his insect friend, Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio experiences a series of incredible adventures on his way to becoming a real boy. He is deterred from deceit in his new life by his nose, which grows longer every time he tells a lie.

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    •Studio: RKO Radio Pictures

    •Directors: Hamilton Luske, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, and Ben Sharpsteen

    •Writers: William Cottrell, Otto Englander, Ted Sears, Webb Smith, Joseph Sabo, Erdman Penner, and Aurelius Battaglia

    •Music: Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, and Ned Washington

    •Mel Blanc (Gideon)

    •Dickie Jones (Pinocchio)

    •Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket)

    •Christian Rub (Geppetto)

    •Score*

    •Song (“When You Wish upon a Star”)*

    • Lee Pfeiffer
  3. Nov 22, 1998 · Pinocchio. When the Russian director Sergei Eisenstein saw Disney's " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ," he called it the greatest film ever made. High praise from a man whose "Battleship Potemkin" then topped lists of great films.

  4. This article is about the 1940 film. For the character, see Pinocchio (character). Pinocchio is an animated musical comedy fantasy adventure film. The second film in the Disney Animated Canon, it was produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on...

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  5. Inventor Geppetto creates a wooden marionette called Pinocchio. His wish for Pinocchio to be a real boy is unexpectedly granted by a fairy. The fairy assigns Jiminy Cricket to act as Pinocchio's "conscience" and keep him out of trouble.

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  7. When the woodworker Geppetto (Christian Rub) sees a falling star, he wishes that the puppet he just finished, Pinocchio (Dickie Jones), could become a real boy. In the night, the Blue Fairy ...

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