“Do you know the Land of Toys? - No, it's my first time going there! ". One of the most famous dialogic lines of universal pop culture, belonging to the tradition of fairy tales that have been told to us since childhood. We are talking about one of the most famous animated titles of the production of the house of Mickey Mouse, the Disney film Pinocchio, an American dramaturgical fantasy animation film released on February 7, 1940 and based on the 1883 novel for children, from Italian birth, The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It was the second animated feature film produced by Disney, made after the first animated hit Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Although it became the first animated feature film to win an Academy Award, earning two for Best Music, Original Score and Best Music, Original Song for the English version of A Star Falls, When You Wish Upon a Star, was initially a great defeat and a decisive failure at the box office, mainly due to the Second World War which cut the European and Asian markets overseas.
In the end, however, a small fortune was made thanks to the relaunch in 1945, and it is considered to be one of the greatest animated films ever made. The film and the characters are still relevant and renowned not only in popular culture, but also present in the various Disney parks, but do we remember all the fundamental knots of this story? Do we know every background of the production of the cartoon? Let's refresh our memories together on the anniversary of the release of this film.
