Word: collodi
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...recovers, and the price he pays is small: his nose grows, but there are no burned feet. And when the cricket gets in his face, it isn't squashed; it sings Give a Little Whistle. For 62 years - ever since Walt Disney brightened up the grimmer corners of Carlo Collodi's 1883 classic The Adventures of Pinocchio - there have been two competing versions of the little wooden guy's story: one headquartered in Italy, where people rightly regard the original as a work of dark genius; and one in the U.S., where generations raised on Disney's moody animated...
Pinocchio's Family Tree Since Carlo Collodi first brought his puppet to life in The Adventures of Pinocchio, in 1883, there has been no shortage of fresh interpretations. Disney's animated classic is the most renowned, but the piny protagonist has launched a thousand remakes. A brief history...
...first sketch illustration of Collodi's often adapted Adventures of Pinocchio, by Enrico Mazzanti...
...Christmas season is a traditional time for parents to take their children to the movie theater for a little animated fun. This year Walt Disney has reissued its classic Cinderella, and Filmation is coming out with a sequel to Carlo Collodi's classic tale called Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night. Both represent an increasingly rare breed: animated movies made...
...mother's home village on Monte a Pescia. Its rustic beauty was an ideal setting, as Pinocchio once explained to the talking cricket, in which "to chase butterflies, to climb trees and take little birds from their nests." Says Professor Rolando Anzilotti, president of the Carlo Collodi Foundation that promotes the lore of Pinocchio: "The book reflects the flavor of a country town where a child first opens his eyes to the world...