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This Day, That Year – February 7

Tue 07 Feb 2023    
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This day in history we feature Pinocchio. American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions was released on this day in 1940.

Trivia – Pinocchio

The animated film Pinocchio had its world premiere, and it became one of Disney’s most beloved classics, known for its brilliant animation and compelling story. It was the second animated feature film produced by Disney, made after the first animated success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

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The film was adapted by several storyboard artists from Collodi’s book. The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, and the film’s sequences were directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, and Bill Roberts. Pinocchio was a groundbreaking achievement in the area of effects animation, giving realistic movement to vehicles, machinery and natural elements such as rain, lightning, smoke, shadows and water. Pinocchio was released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on February 23, 1940. Although it received critical acclaim and became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award — winning two for Best Music, Original Score and for Best Music, Original Song for “When You Wish Upon a Star” — it was initially a box office bomb, mainly due to World War II cutting off the European and Asian markets overseas. It eventually made a profit in its 1945 reissue, and is considered one of the greatest animated films ever made, with a 100% rating on the website Rotten Tomatoes. The film and characters are still prevalent in popular culture, featuring at various Disney parks and in other forms of entertainment. In 1994, Pinocchio was added to the United States National Film Registry for being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. A 2000 live-action movie titled Geppetto, told from Geppetto’s perspective, was released direct to television. In April 2015, a live-action adaptation of the same name officially entered development; filming began in March 2021 and ended that April, and it was released on Disney+ on September 8, 2022.

Source – Wikipedia


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