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Pinocchio

Year:
Duration:
88 min
Genres:
Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
IMDB rate:
7.5
Director:
Norman Ferguson
Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1940-02-23
Earnings
Budget: $2,600,000
Opening Weekend: $3,769,251 (USA) (21 December 1984)
Gross: $18,863,559 (USA) ( 1992)
Cast
Actor
Character
Mel Blanc
Donkeys
Don Brodie
Carnival Barkers
Walter Catlett
J. Worthington Foulfellow
Marion Darlington
Birds
Frankie Darro
Lampwick
Cliff Edwards
Jiminy Cricket
Dickie Jones
Pinocchio
Charles Judels
Stromboli
Clarence Nash
Figaro /
Patricia Page
Marionettes
Christian Rub
Geppetto
Evelyn Venable
The Blue Fairy
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Trivia
At $2.8 million, _Pinocchio_ was one of the most expensive films produced at the time.
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John Musker and Ron Clements would consult on how _Pinocchio_ achieved its underwater effects when they were in the process of developing The Little Mermaid (1989).
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Stromboli's wagon was a filmed model printed on cels and painted. A similar technique was used twenty years later in 101 Dalmatians (1961).
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Goofs
When Honest John and Gideon are taking Pinocchio to Stromboli, there is an above shot of them walking through the street, around a tree, and to the end of the street. Throughout this entire shot, the upper portion of Pinocchio is not colored in and appears brown, as if he lost his color.
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When Jiminy cozies up to sleep on the end of a fiddle, he kicks his shoes off in front of him. But when he is aroused by the Blue Fairy's arrival and grabs his shoes, they are now some distance away, sitting neatly heel to heel.
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When Figaro opens the window and steps into the moonlight, he becomes totally transparent.
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Quotes
The Blue Fairy: Good Geppetto, you have given so much happiness to others, that you deserve to have your wish come true.
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Foulfellow: [Picks up Pinocchio's schoolbook and apple, which he eats] Well, well. Quite the scholar, I see. Look, Giddy. A man of letters. Here's your book
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Jiminy Cricket: [to Monstro] Hey, blubber mouth, open up! I gotta get in there!
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Faq
Q
Why isn't Figaro or Cleo listed in the cast? I thought they were in this movie!
A
The cast lists really don't always list everyone, but that isn't the real reason here.Instead, while both Figaro the cat and Cleo the goldfish are supporting --> characters <-- in this cartoon, being animals they had no dialog, so no human voiced them, so there were no --> cast members <-- associated with them. So there were no cast entries made in IMDB, or in the film it may be, for them or other background characters of their nature, like Monstro the whale.Still, the Figaro character was reused by Disney in other films in which a human voiced him, and has his own character page, at http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0044450/. Cleo was also reused, the two are the subjects of "Figaro and Cleo (1943)" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035873/ .
Q
Why was the coachmen turning young boys into donkeys?
A
Probably to sell them and make money. He probably chose young boys because they were easier to manipulate (give a bad boy enough rope, and he'll soon make an ass of himself) and less likely to successfully retaliate than adults or little girls.The boxes that the donkeys are being loaded into have signs like "Sold to the salt mines" and "Sold to the circus," so he is selling them to various places.
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