Pinocchio:
--- is the best animated film ever to come out of the Walt Disney studio, bar none, including the later Pixar division features. This is because of a great writer (Ted Sears, 1900-1958) they had at the time and because of Walt Disney who could recognize a good story.
Ted Sears's source was a nearly forgotten periodical serial originally written in Italy by 19th Century children's fairy tale writer, Carlo Collodi. (Birth name, Carlo Lorenzini). Lorenzini wrote Storia di un burattino ("The story of a marionette"), Sears assembled the best stories from the serial first published in Il Giornale dei Bambini (The Children's Journal) the first periodical for children, and created the script for Pinocchio. This was a time when Disney, still working on Snow White but seeing what was about to manifest in the world, pulled out all the stops and with his top flight, hand selected staff that included today's well-known animation artist's names, created Pinocchio. Fortunately, Walt Disney wisely refused to use well-known voices of the period so the characters remain freshly unfettered by latent image conflicts with real life images.
Popular artist, Thomas Kinkaid, recognized the perennial greatness of this film and followed his Snow White painting with one the Pinocchio. That painting will be important as long as the film remains popular...for at least one hundred years or more from today. The painting consists of and depicts every major scene and character in the film.
//Raúl daSilva, author, first place national book festival prizewinner, The World of animation (Kodak, 1979).
--- is the best animated film ever to come out of the Walt Disney studio, bar none, including the later Pixar division features. This is because of a great writer (Ted Sears, 1900-1958) they had at the time and because of Walt Disney who could recognize a good story.
Ted Sears's source was a nearly forgotten periodical serial originally written in Italy by 19th Century children's fairy tale writer, Carlo Collodi. (Birth name, Carlo Lorenzini). Lorenzini wrote Storia di un burattino ("The story of a marionette"), Sears assembled the best stories from the serial first published in Il Giornale dei Bambini (The Children's Journal) the first periodical for children, and created the script for Pinocchio. This was a time when Disney, still working on Snow White but seeing what was about to manifest in the world, pulled out all the stops and with his top flight, hand selected staff that included today's well-known animation artist's names, created Pinocchio. Fortunately, Walt Disney wisely refused to use well-known voices of the period so the characters remain freshly unfettered by latent image conflicts with real life images.
Popular artist, Thomas Kinkaid, recognized the perennial greatness of this film and followed his Snow White painting with one the Pinocchio. That painting will be important as long as the film remains popular...for at least one hundred years or more from today. The painting consists of and depicts every major scene and character in the film.
//Raúl daSilva, author, first place national book festival prizewinner, The World of animation (Kodak, 1979).