01 décembre 2008
Pinnochio
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If Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs can be considered as a jewel of the animation world at its release in 1937, Pinocchio is indubitably the perfect evolution. Walt Disney had underlined it well at this time, he was out of question for him to make a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 2, in spite of the numerous calls of the public to find their favorite heroes in new adventures. And so in the end of the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the studio put in construction several films in parallel, all very far from the universe of Snow White. Among these projects we found Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Peter Pan or Alice in Wonderland. It is in the middle of this creative medley that Pinocchio appeared. Inspired by Carlo Collodi's tale, the Disney version goes away from it on several points, deleting some characters, valuing the others, smoothing numerous elements to fit all this universe in the mould of the Disney productions. But it doesn't matter, because this version of the small wooden marionette is still considered as the most beautiful never realized today! Second full-length film and Walt Disney already achieved perfection. The reasons of this success are numerous: experience increased thanks to the acquired experience on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the extraordinary talents (Gustaf Tenggren, Joe Grant, Claude Coats, Marc Davis, Franck Thomas, etc.) and also a colossal budget for this time! It is that after the reserved succes of the film in cinemas (the European market having already entered the Second World War) that the budget assigned to the full-length films of the firm had been revised downwards. Below is a first gallery of pictures dedicated to the film focused on the model sheets of the various characters.
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Gustave Tenggren's drawings :
