Pinocchio

Pinocchio is the 1940 Walt Disney classic animated feature of Carlo Collodi's wonderful fairy tale, published in July, 1881. When a lonely Italian woodcarver named Gepetto (Rub) creates the perfect puppet out of love, Pinocchio (Jones) is given life by the Blue fairy (Venable), and with the help of a cricket (Edwards), as his conscience, he must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. On his way to school, Pinocchio is lead astray by the cunning and wicked fox Honest John (Catlett), first to "a life in the theatre" and the stringless puppet in Stromboil's (Judels) Marionette Show, and then to Pleasure Island, where boys are transfomed into jackasses. Finally escaping and returning home, Pinocchio finds his father gone and he sets out to find him, saving Geppetto from Monstro, the whale. (Gary Reber)