Pinocchio

Walter Elias Disney was fascinated with the arts and it helped him through his very busy childhood. Disney was kept busy with chores and secretly sketched nature and animals all around him. From an early age Disney drew sketches whenever he could, but when his father fell ill he had to put away the sketchpad and become a man. After Disney’s schooling ended, he enlisted in the “American Ambulance Corps during World War I (Slayman, 2).” The Disney brothers used this fascination with art and…

Marciniak points out that ‘fascination with performers’ is one of the aspects of adaptations that provide pleasure to the audience. Audiences often choose to watch a particular film adaptation because they appreciate the interpretation of a particular role. If we don’t love the actor who plays our favourite character, we might not be able to enjoy a film. This paper suggests that the use of well-established Disney characters in the 1983 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, “Mickeys’ Christmas Carol”…

After persistent begging one day, Mariam’s father promises to take her to one of his theaters to see Pinocchio. Mariam waits expectantly that day, but he never arrives to take her. Mariam decides to leave her property for the first time in her life. Nana begs Mariam not to leave say that Nana will die is she does. Mariam doesn’t listen and walks to her father’s…

Plant", Journal of the society of Motion Picture Engineers, March 1944. World War II affected the Disney Studio. As the war cut off foreign markets that supplied nearly 40% of the studio's income, exacerbating Disney's financial problems when Pinocchio and Fantasia, both released in 1940, failed to duplicate the box office success of snow white. Disney then started creating animation…

“…her face had two prominent lines, descending vertically down the sides of her mouth to her chin” Her face had two carved out lines in her face! Not a lot of people can say they had marionette lines, like Pinocchio. “…the supply of substitute teachers was limited…a pool of about four mothers.” All the other normal substitutes were very different from Miss Ferenczi. Miss Ferenczi looked and acted differently than anyone Tommy had ever met, which caused his fondness…

Snow White was the first of a new form of family entertainment, and was based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The film brought in money. He went on to make other full length animated films such as Pinocchio (1940) and Fantasia (1940). Pinocchio was based on an Italian children’s book. Fantasia was an animated musical based on 8 different pieces of classical music. Again, Fantasia made a “first”—it was the first commercial film the stereophonic sound. The theatres were…

The Walt Disney Animators’ Strike of 1941 During the early 1930s, unions began to organize in almost every industry across the United States, including the Hollywood entertainment industry. Unions for actors, directors, stagehands, and writers sprung up to unify laborers and collectively bargain for better working conditions. The Screen Cartoonist’s Guild was formed in 1938 to organize the previously unrepresented cartoonists and animators in Hollywood. The Guild enjoyed success during its…

Walt-Disney started a company specifically geared towards fulfilling children's dreams and imaginations and making them think of a place, where dreams come true and magic and fairytales comes alive, in whatever ways imaginable. He made this possible through his work in movies, cartoons, children's books, storytelling, theme parks, etc. He did all of this in the middle of the Second World War and other problems happening in the world. While giving credit to Walt Disney, whose main priority is to…

The Velveteen Rabbit/ by Margery Williams Bianco The Velveteen Rabbit was written by Margery Williams Bianco in 1922. The book tells the story of a toy, sawdust-filled rabbit, who is given on charismas day to a little boy. At first he is an object of curiosity, but is quickly ignored when the other more expensive toys discover he is made of more inferior material. He is put in the nursery cabinet, where he is mocked by the other toys. He is lonely and insecure, until the oldest toy in the…

Normally people recognize the smiling faces they see on their neighbors front porches, but one week a year, neighborhoods all over the country are invaded by scary faces peering out at them. Stranger Danger? Don’t call the neighborhood watch quite yet! Those spooky smiles are Jack-O-Lanterns carved by festive neighbors and probably signal they will have some good loot on Halloween. What someone carves on their pumpkin can tell you a lot about them. Some people who are sports fanatics might…