Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Pinocchio come a host of new sketches for the Disney gallery. Well out in front, striding along with a jaunty step, is Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Monstro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hairbrushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad. Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire...
Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, Monstro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy; TIME...
Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Figaro, Geppetto, J. Worthington Foul-fellow, Giddy, Monstro; TIME...
Pinocchio (Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Geppetto, Figaro, J. Worthington Foulfellow, Giddy, Monstro; TIME...
...actor-fox, who sells Pinocchio to the puppet show, or his shabby, screwloose, unscrupulous companion, Giddy, the cat. In satirizing this pair of ham actors, Disney is working on a new plane. This is no longer the playful caricaturing of old Wood Carver Geppetto, the frolicsome kitten or Jiminy Cricket. Foulfellow and Giddy are savage adult satire. They are even out of place in a children's picture. But they suggest the direction Disney may take if he ever makes a greater picture than Pinocchio...