Walt Disney’s 2nd Feature Length Animated Film.

Critically successful on original release, marking the 1st Feature Length Animated Film to win a competitive Oscar, winning for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for ”When You Wish Upon A Star”.

Commercially successful on re-releases after its original release proved to be a box-office bomb primarily due to World War II cutting off the European and Asian markets overseas.

The film was a major groundbreaking step forward in effects animation, giving realistic movement to vehicles, machinery and natural elements such as rain, lightning, smoke, shadows and water.

Roger Ebert included the film on his list of “Great Movies” and wrote that it “isn’t just a concocted fable or silly fairy tale, but a narrative with deep archetypal reverberations.”

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist, has spoken extensively about the film in his lectures, citing it as a perfect example of ”the manner in which great mythological and archetypal themes inform and permeate narrative”.

Disney’s most ‘technically perfect’ film – considered so by many film historians – notably by film critic Leonard Maltin who said that “with Pinocchio, Disney reached not only the height of his powers, but the apex of what many critics consider to be the realm of the animated cartoon”.