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Unlike the original story or any other versions of it, Pinocchio stays a wooden puppet at the end of the movie but was still considered at the end, by his loved ones including the Wood Sprite (the movie's counterpart to the Fairy with Turquoise Hair) (voiced by Tilda Swinton, who also voiced Death, the Sprite's sister) as already a real boy.
The Adventures of Pinocchio was originally published in serial form in the Giornale per i bambini, one of the earliest Italian weekly magazines for children, starting from 7 July 1881. In the original, serialized version, Pinocchio dies a gruesome death: hanged for his innumerable faults, at the end of Chapter 15.
Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.Loosely based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, it is the studio's second animated feature film, as well as the third animated film overall produced by an American film studio, after Disney's Snow White and the Seven ...
From the change that transformed the title character to the shocking early demise of Jiminy Cricket, here are little-known facts about the animated feature.
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Jiminy Cricket is the Disney version of the Talking Cricket, a fictional character created by Italian writer Carlo Collodi for his 1883 children's book The Adventures of Pinocchio, which Walt Disney adapted into the animated film Pinocchio in 1940. [6] Originally an unnamed, minor character in Collodi's novel who is killed by Pinocchio before ...
Pinocchio quickly becomes the star attraction along with Bella, with whom he becomes infatuated. After Bella rejects him, Pinocchio seeks to become a real boy. He learns from a clown that the fairy Lucilda has the power to make him real. Pinocchio and Tybalt travel to find Lucilda, narrowly escaping being robbed by Mangiafuoco's accomplices.
Edwards recorded another version in 1940 for an American Decca Records "cover version" of the score of Pinocchio, conducted by Victor Young and featuring soprano Julietta Novis and The King's Men. It was first released on a 4-record 78-RPM album set, and years later as one side of an LP, backed by selections from The Wizard of Oz.