THEA 80N Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Gustaf Tenggren, Carlo Collodi, Seven Deadly Sins
Lecture 7 and 8: Pinocchio and Fantasia
4/24/2018 and 4/26/2018
Pinocchio:
● Originally written by Carlo Collodi
○ Published as an serial
■ Meaning each week a new segment of the story would be published in the
newspaper
● Walt had everyone watch the play version of Pinocchio when it came up
○ To help with the storyboard ideas
○ The play portrayed Pinocchio as an innocent child
○ The originally story had Pinocchio be more like Lampwick, a more malicious
character
● The Victorian sensibility
○ The belief that all children are uncivilized and needed to drive the devil out of
them
● In the Walt Disney version, we see all of the 7 deadly sins
● Big shift in theme for the Studio
● The villains are not destroyed in the end of the movie
● Pg 104 - the 5 points of Disney's animations
● Like Snow White, there was music to propel the story
● Cost 2.6 million dollars in 1940
○ About 100 million in today's conversion
● Went through so many different faces before they settled on the version we see today
● Didn’t do well in the Box-office
○ Was released in 1940 - the beginning of World War 2
Commedia dell'arte
● Italian theatre
○ Influenced modern comedy
● Mid-16th century
○ Started off as street theatre
○ Before vaudeville
● Masked/stock characters
● Scenarios/sketches/lazzi
● Influenced Collodi when he wrote Pinocchio
Gustaf Tenggren
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Document Summary
Meaning each week a new segment of the story would be published in the newspaper. Walt had everyone watch the play version of pinocchio when it came up. The play portrayed pinocchio as an innocent child. The originally story had pinocchio be more like lampwick, a more malicious character. The belief that all children are uncivilized and needed to drive the devil out of them. In the walt disney version, we see all of the 7 deadly sins. Big shift in theme for the studio. The villains are not destroyed in the end of the movie. Pg 104 - the 5 points of disney"s animations. Like snow white, there was music to propel the story. Went through so many different faces before they settled on the version we see today. Was released in 1940 - the beginning of world war 2. Was a name before he worked at disney studios.
