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...Strike. The decision did not solve all Walt's problems. The day Pinocchio was released, Germany marched into Poland. The foreign market-in which Disney expects to make about half his take-was cut at least in half. The same problem met Dumbo and Bambi. Meanwhile, Disney had his famous strike. Whatever the rights of the affair-Walt maintained that he was being persecuted by the Communists, the union leaders said he was running a sweatshop-Walt handled it badly and lost the decision gracelessly. The studio was closed down for two weeks. Except for the war, it would...
...Pinocchio (Disney-RKO rerelease...
...planning an $11 million combination fair and amusement park for Los Angeles. To be called Disneyland, the project will cover 152 acres, will show the world of the past, the world of the future, and the. world of fantasy, with sets from such Disney movies as Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio and Cinderella. Rides for the kiddies will include a 40 ft. rocket, supposedly giving the sensation of space travel...
After he was installed as mayor, Anzilotti set about fulfilling his promise. He raised $17,000 by popular subscription, put aside $2,400 as prize money, and invited artists from all over Italy to submit designs for the Pinocchio memorial. Tempted by so grand a prize (1,500,000 lire), 84 sculptors and architects sent in projects: merry Pinocchios, realistic Pinocchios, sad Pinocchios, surrealist Pinocchios. Last week the prize jury announced its decision: it would split the award money between Painter Venturino Venturi and Sculptor Emilio Greco, build not one but two Pinocchio memorials...
Prizewinner Venturi, 35, a specialist in murals, submitted a plan for a "magic quadrangle"-a court enclosed by a wall of varying heights on which would be colored mosaics representing scenes and characters from the Pinocchio story. Sicilian-born Sculptor Greco's entry was a tall semi-abstraction showing the Good Fairy pulling Pinocchio from a tree trunk with a great bird hovering above them. When cast in bronze, Greco's figure will stand a little away from Venturi's magic quadrangle on the grounds of Collodi's stateliest 18th century villa...