Pinocchio

Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on Carlo Collodi’s 1883 children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, it is the second Disney animated feature film, after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). It is also the third animated film overall produced by an American film studio, after Fleischer Studios’ Gulliver’s Travels (1939).

The plot involves an old Italian woodcarver named Geppetto who carves a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who wishes to be a real boy. The puppet is brought to life by a blue fairy who informs him that he can become a real boy if he proves himself to be “brave, truthful, and unselfish.” The key character of Jiminy Cricket, who takes the role of Pinocchio’s conscience, attempts to guide Pinocchio in matters of right and wrong. Pinocchio’s efforts to become a real boy involve encounters with a host of unsavory characters, representing the temptations and consequences of wrongdoing.