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...Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto the Pup the success of Walt Disney's first full-length feature picture, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was a blow. It meant that henceforth they would play second fiddle in the animated cartoon kingdom. For Cartoonist Disney, Snow White grossed $4,677,863 in 1938-39, jumped his net to a record $1,250,130 for 1939, launched him on a new kind of business with new problems: big-time feature production...
...story of "Pinocchio," the little puppet who finally becomes a real boy, is a natural for Walt Disney, for the creation of life where there was none before is his own specialty. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his bearings, he is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto, his maker...
Pinocchio (Victor). Six sides of Walt Disney's words & music taken directly from the film's sound track...
Since the Disney studio works as a collective enterprise (1,200 people worked two years to produce Pinocchio), it is difficult to evaluate Walt Disney's exact share in the picture. Disney himself always says "we" instead of "I" in talking about his productions. But the producer's hand is apparent in Cleo, the coyly diaphanous goldfish; in the fluffy antics of Figaro, the kitten; above all in the creation of Jiminy Cricket...
...McClellan, Charlie Pollak, Walt Downing, John Beardsley, George Ball, and Ed McNitt are the sprinters for the stars. George Girton, Bob White, and Euno Hobbing are the breastrokers; Ted Scoonmaker and Brand Wehle are the backstrokers; and Dan Barker and Where Smith are the divers...