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Mickey Mouse, Snow White. Ferdinand the aesthete. Dopey, Pluto and other Disneyites more than likely felt a slight pushing to the background during the past holidays. There appeared a newcomer on the countless counters throughout the country, in fact newcomers – Pinocchio of the prying nose and his ever-present conscience, Jimmy Cricket. And maybe one gentleman "of the wood" by the name of McCarthy felt a slight twinge too because this newcomer is also of the school of dummies. Pinocchio's strings have been pulled in marionette shows for many a year in Italian villages.

The Italian folk story of the curious little boy who kept poking his nose into matters of no concern of his until it became quite & pachydermic proboscis had been told and retold for generations in Italy but it was not until late in the 1890's that one Carlo Lorenzini using the pen name of C. Collodi put it down in black and white between covers with illustrations by Attilio Massino. And now Disney and his corps of artists and technicians have captured the true spirit in color.

Disneyitis is such a pleasant "itis" – hardened critics of the movies have been known to be softened unbelievably by a few minutes of a Silly Symphony, and adventure of Mickey or a tantrum of Donald and for months whole nations were "whistling while they worked" and "heigh-hoing" like a vast multitude of Seven Dwarfs. Thus it becomes a task to come right down to one angle of a Disney production – one likes to wander all over the lot – in this case the recently developed character model department.

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