Word: pinocchio
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...popular as ever, Pinocchio has a special birthday party...
...lift of his ever-scampering feet they could, with fine comic efficiency, show the state of his emotions. The history of animation from the Mouse's introduction in 1928's Steamboat Willie to the apotheosis of the high Disney style in such features as Snow White and Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi, roughly a decade later, can be seen as a process in which movement became subtler and more complex, with a parallel growth in the expressive range of the studio's "stars." The animators learned to incorporate tragedy (the panic of a lost boy in Pinocchio...
...course, Lundberg had a distinct advantage over other West coast aquatic stars who ignorantly patronize Tommy's Lunch and Pinocchio's Pizza for an entire week. For last year, Cambridge was home to Lundberg, when he resided in Weld Hall and breaststroked regularly at Blodgett...
...away from home to hitch a ride on a starship, Roy brazens his way into the first meeting of man and extraterrestrial. Both film versions pay heartfelt homage to the spirit of early Disney-not only in their use of the song When You Wish Upon a Star (from Pinocchio) but also in their insistence on a childlike belief in the magic of movies. The actors here are the audience: they spend most of the film watching and listening to the lovely sights and sounds that Spielberg and his special-effects team have put together. Spielberg in effect...
...abrasively strong scene, a kind of group tantrum. At the end, Roy enters the starship, and this time the audience goes with him-for a brief survey of the ship's angelic multiterraced interior. Roy grins beatifically; the wooden husband has turned into a real boy. Pinocchio lives...