Pinocchio
(1940)
For anyone who has ever wished upon a star.
Stars: Mel Blanc, Don Brodie, Walter Catlett, Frankie Darro, Cliff Edwards
Director: Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton S. Luske
Writer: Ted Sears, Carlo Collodi
Language: English
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Duration: 88
Rated: G
DVD Release: March 2009
This Disney masterpiece from 1940 will hold up forever precisely because it doesn't restrain or temper the most elementalemotions and themes germane to its story. Based on the Collodi tale about a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy, Pinocchio is among the most magical, mythical, and frightening films to come from the studio in its long history. A number of scenes make permanent impressions on young minds (just ask Steven Spielberg, who quoted the film more than once in Close Encounters of the Third Kind), and the songs ("When You Wish upon a Star") can't be beat. --Tom Keogh
Stills from Pinocchio (click for larger image)
| Marion Darlington | Birds |
| ... | Donkeys / Gideon (hiccup) / Marionette Soldiers |
| Mel Blanc | Gideon (hiccup) / Marionette Soldiers (voice) (uncredited) |
| Gideon | |
| Don Brodie | Carnival Barkers (voice) (uncredited) |
| Walter Catlett | J. Worthington Foulfellow (voice) (uncredited) |
| Frankie Darro | Lampwick (voice) (uncredited) |
| Cliff Edwards | Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited) |
| Dickie Jones | Pinocchio / Alexander (voice) (uncredited) |
| Charles Judels | Stromboli / The Coachman (voice) (uncredited) |
| Jack Mercer | Rough House Statue |
| Clarence Nash | Figaro |
| Patricia Page | Marionettes (voice) (uncredited) |
| Christian Rub | Geppetto (voice) (uncredited) |
| Evelyn Venable | The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited) |
| Leigh Harline | Composer |
| Jorge Aldama | |
| Paul J. Smith | Composer |
| Ken Anderson | Art Director |
| Hugh Hennesy | Art Director |
| Fernando Casanova | |
| Ford Beebe Jr. | Assistant Director |
| John Hubley | Art Director |
| Mari Carmen de Leon | |
| Lou Debney | Assistant Director |
| Dick Kelsey | Art Director |
| Carlos Samperio | |
| Jim Handley | Assistant Director |
| Kendall O'Connor | Art Director |
| Thurl Ravenscroft | Mel Blanc |
| Graham Heid | Assistant Director |
| Charles Philippi | Art Director |
| Mike Holoboff | Assistant Director |
| Thor Putnam | Art Director |
| Larry Lansburgh | Assistant Director |
| Terrell Stapp | Art Director |
| Lloyd Richardson | Assistant Director |
| McLaren Stewart | Art Director |
| Merle Cox | background designer |
| Al Zinnen | Art Director |
| Claude Coats | background designer |
| Bruce Bushman | Art Director |
| Eric Larson | animation |
| Arthur Heinemann | Art Director |
| Jack Campbell | animation |
| Charles Payzant | Art Director |
| Wolfgang Reitherman | animation |
| Ford Beebe | Assistant Director |
| Joshua Meador | animation |
| John Lounsbery | animation |
| Fred Moore | animation |
| Frank Thomas | animation |
| Charles A. Nichols | animation |
| Ward Kimball | animation |
| Milt Kahl | animation |
| Ted Sears | Adaptation |
| Ollie Johnston | animation |
| Otto Englander | Adaptation |
| Bob McCrea | animation |
| Webb Smith | Adaptation |
| William Roberts | sequence supervisor |
| William Cottrell | Adaptation |
| Norm Ferguson | sequence supervisor |
| Joseph Sabo | Adaptation |
| Jack Kinney | sequence supervisor |
| Erdman Penner | Adaptation |
| Wilfred Jackson | sequence supervisor |
| Aurelius Battaglia | Adaptation |
| Wah Chang | character maquettes (uncredited) |
| Dick Jones | Pinocchio |
| T. Hee | sequence supervisor |
| Don Christensen | atmosphere sketches (uncredited) |
| Bill Tytla | animation director |
| Gustaf Tenggren | conceptual designs (uncredited) |
| Art Babbitt | animation director |
| Edwin Aardal | special animation effects (uncredited) |
| Jerome Brown | effects animator (uncredited) |
| Paul Busch | effects animator (uncredited) |
| Ugo D'Orsi | special animation effects (uncredited) |
| James Escalante | effects animator (uncredited) |
| Frank Follmer | effects animator (uncredited) |
| Dan MacManus | effects animator (uncredited) |
| Fred Madison | effects animator (uncredited) |
| John McDermott | effects animator (uncredited) |
| Ted Parmelee | effects animator (uncredited) |
| Sandy Strother | special animation effects (uncredited) |
| Bernard Wolf | animation |
| Cornett Wood | special animation effects (uncredited) |
| Don Towsley | animation |
| Don Lusk | animation |
| Norman Tate | animation |
| Jack Bradbury | animation |
| Lynn Karp | animation |
| Art Palmer | animation |
| Don Tobin | animation |
| Robert Martsch | animation |
| George Rowley | animation |
| John McManus | animation |
| Don Patterson | animation |
| Preston Blair | animation |
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Media: DVD
Sound: AC-3
IMDb: 0032910
