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13 unusual facts about Pinocchio


A Pig-Boy and His Dog

After seeing a rip-off of Pinocchio, Jay finds a puppy in the streets whom he takes home and names "Tiny".

Antonio Saura

Starting in 1959 he began creating a prolific body of works in print, illustrating numerous books including Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, Nöstlinger’s adaptation of Pinocchio, Kafka’s Tagebücher, Quevedo’s Three Visions, and many others.

Charles Folkard

In 1911, he created seventy-seven drawings and eight watercolour plates for Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio, a volume which remained the definitive edition and in print for decades.

Charley Says

Often Charley served as the boy's conscience, similarly to Davey and Goliath or Jiminy Cricket of Disney's film Pinocchio.

Dave Digs Disney

As the title suggests, the album features jazz renditions of songs featured in famous Disney animated films including Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella.

Delaware Children's Theatre

Originally named the Children's Repertory Theatre of Wilmington, the organization began in 1973 with their first production of Pinocchio.

Dick Beals

In 1996, Beals provided the voice of the Pinocchio puppet in the horror film Pinocchio's Revenge.

Félix Dupanloup

There are 40 letters in all, mainly to people in Italian history and fiction, but also to internationally well known fictional and historical characters such as Pinocchio, Charles Dickens, Hippocrates, and Jesus.

Otto Julius Bierbaum

His novel Zäpfel Kerns Abenteuer was an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio.

Phoenix 2772

The influences can be seen with the prison mining set of Unisen minors (Fleischer Studios), Pincho and other creatures dancing with a mop (Disney's Fantasia) and the reference to Pinocchio when Olga is given new life.

Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of Living Lies

She is then maneuvered by a talking rock that claims it's a flower into picking him up, only to accuse her of stealing him, leads to her being arrested by Pinocchio.

TOS-1

The nickname Buratino matches the name of the hero of a Russian version of a Pinocchio-style tale (by Alexey Tolstoy), because of the big "nose" of the launcher.

Vjekoslav Kaleb

In addition to writing screenplays, articles and reviews, Kaleb was also a translator, his most notable work being the translation of Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio.


Aurelius Battaglia

He contributed most notably to Dumbo, Fantasia, and Pinocchio and is credited as one of the writers of the latter.

Brian Way

There he produced plays in the round including Philoctetes and Pinocchio, which he wrote with Warren Jenkins and an abbreviated version of The Man Born to be King by Dorothy L. Sayers.

Charles August Nichols

As an animator for Disney, his first credit was on the film Pinocchio, where he was the lead animator for the villainous Coachman.

Charles Judels

He also did extensive work as a voice-over actor in animated films, notably as the voices of Stromboli and the coachman in Walt Disney's Pinocchio, and in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes short Porky's Garden.

Charles Wolcott

He moved to Hollywood in 1937 and soon began working at Walt Disney Studios writing music for cartoon shorts, then feature films such as Pinocchio and Bambi.

Fred Ladd

Producer Norm Prescott employed Ladd to help reformat a 1965 Belgian animated feature Pinocchio dans le space, which was released theatrically by Universal in late 1965 as Pinocchio in Outer Space.

Geppetto

Mister Geppetto, a fictional character, is the creator of Pinocchio in the 1883 novel, 1940 film and subsequent versions.

Gustaf Tenggren

He later worked with productions such as Bambi and Pinocchio, as well as backgrounds and atmospheres of films such as The Ugly Duckling and The Old Mill.

Jodi Eichelberger

He has written both book and music for Other Hand Productions' puppet productions of Snow Queen and Pinocchio.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

He is best known for his roles as the middle child Randy Taylor on the sitcom Home Improvement, as Pinocchio in New Line Cinema's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and as the voice of the young Simba in Disney's The Lion King.

Land of Toys

This version of Pleasure Island appears in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance in Pinocchio's homeworld, Prankster's Paradise.

Mokku of the Oak Tree

Unlike the more cheerful lighter tones of the Disney Version and Nippon Animation's version Piccolino no Bōken, this series has a distinctly sadistic darker theme and portrays the main character, Pinocchio (Mokku), as suffering from constant physical and psychological abuse and freak accidents.

Music Land

The film was edited into Disneyland: Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom in 1959 with reorchestrated music, and was featured in Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: The Disney Dream Factory (1985), The Best of Disney: 50 Years of Magic (1991), Songs of the Silly Symphonies (2001), and The Making of 'Pinocchio': No Strings Attached (2009).

Sergei Ryabov

Having defended the diploma ("Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi), he had worked as an animator for some years in different studios of Moscow.

Snafu Comics

Other staff members who have appeared thus far include Red's psychiatrist Dr. Cricket (whether he is an original character or the Talking Cricket from The Adventures of Pinocchio is unclear), Puss in Boots as Humpty's personal bodyguard, and Pinocchio as the head janitor.

Taylor Atelian

Taylor Atelian is trained in tap, ballet and jazz and attends the Rudenko School of Dance and has appeared in numerous productions including Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, and Babes in Toyland, at the Lobero Theatre.

The Magic Riddle

The film tells the story of Cindy, an orphan who lives as an indentured servant to her cruel stepmother, and features elements of famous fairytales including Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio.

The Terrible Dogfish

In the anime manga series MÄR, Pinocchio's Guardian ARM Fastico Galleon is a giant whale-like creature based on Monstro from the Disney movie.

In the 2002 Italian film Pinocchio, the Terrible Dogfish is replaced with a giant Great White Shark.

Wah Chang

His other film credits include sculpting the maquette of Pinocchio which was used as the reference for the animators of the classic Walt Disney feature, and articulated deer models for Bambi.

Walt Disney Classics

On the other side were Michael Eisner and his new management team, who argued that Pinocchio was making nothing sitting in the vault and that immediate video release could capitalize on advertising from the recent reissue.

Walther Jervolino

Deeply influenced by the main protagonist of the 1883 children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, an Italian writer, he tried to imagine a different destiny for Pinocchio, which was guilty, according to Jervolino, of being a traitor towards his father, Geppetto.