As it's Pinocchio Day I thought I'd revisit some old photos.
On this date in 1940 Walt Disney released its film of the same name - which incidentally won two Academy Awards. The film is a disneyfied version of a much blacker tale by Carlo Collodi that was first serialised in magazines for children in 1881, before the book was published in 1883.
Back in 2022 we visited the family in Italy and took a trip out to Vernante, the home in later life of the illustrator, Attilio Mussini, who gave new life to the character of Pinocchio in the edition of the book published in 1911.
After his death in 1954 local artists painted murals of his work on the walls in the town. Since then more and more murals have appeared, some of them quite grim.
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There are quite a few examples of Pinocchio in public life.
What marvelous murals! Yes, the original book is quite a bit darker. I read it as a child. Have you seen Guillermo del Toro's 2022 stop-action movie version of Pinocchio? He sets it in Fascist Italy. Worth watching!
The murals are quite something! Amazing really.
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