Pinocchio

Jiminy Cricket narrates a story about Geppetto and his marionette Pinocchio, who is brought to life by the Blue Fairy but gets led astray by con artists and ends up sacrificing himself to save Geppetto before being turned into a real boy. Pinocchio is a 1940 American English-language Animation Comedy film featuring Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Walter Catlett, Charles Judels, Evelyn Venable and Bill Thompson. The movie is based on The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Walt Disney Productions was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Walt Disney. Pinocchio is written by Carlo Collodi, Ted Sears, Otto Englander, Webb Smith, William Cottrell, Joseph Sabo, Erdman Penner, Aurelius Battaglia and Bill Peet and it is directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee and Wilfred Jackson. RKO Radio Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Pinocchio was released on 23rd February 1940 and takes a screen time of 88 minutes. and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released. Pinocchio was made on a budget of $2 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $2 million. The music was composed by Academy Award Oscar winner Leigh Harline along with Paul J. Smith. At the 1941 Oscar Awards It won 2 awards including: Best Music, Original Song and Best Music, Original Score.