Half of the charm of Pinocchio (LIFE, Dm. 95) is in the voices that chortle, squeak, sigh and sing as Disney's inimitable cartoons scamper across the screen. The cartoon characters spring from pens of Disney artists, but the voices come from flesh-and-blood vocal chords whose owners you see on this and following pages.
All of them are stage and screen actors, chosen from voice recordings by many applicants. For 19 months they Worked intermittently on Pinocchio, projecting dialog and song into a microphone for transfer to a sound track. When this track was broken down into charts allotting screen footage for every vowel, consonant and syllable, Disney animators drew pictures to fit. The result was such perfect blending of artist's sketch and human voice that critics called Pinocchio the master cartoon of all time.
