Pinocchio

 

Pinocchio

 

Pinocchio – Talian title

Le avventure di Pinocchio – Italian title

Pinocchio Acchiappacitrulli – Italian title

Hippeltitsch- German title

Piñoncito, Aventuras de un Títere – Spanish title

Pinocho – Venezuelan title

The Adventures of Pinocchio (US)

 

A 1911 Italian film production [Società Italiana Cines (Rome)]

Producers: Filoteo Alberini & Dante Santoni

Director: Giulio Antamoro

Story: Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Screenplay:

Cinematography: black & white

Running time: 53 minutes

 

Cast

Pinocchio - Ferdinand Guillaume

Geppetto - Augusto Mastripietri

Lucignolo – Natalino Guillaume

Fata - Lea Giunchi

The old carpenter Geppetto manufactures in his workshop a wooden puppet that will soon come alive. For an hour the doll will live a thousand and one adventures: he will be judged, hanged, swallowed by a whale, taken prisoner by the Indians, saved by Canadian soldiers and, even, returned home mounted on a cannonball that flies through the sky.

The first film adaption of Carlo Collodi's book "The Adventures of Pinocchio". For a long time, it was believed that only about six minutes of this film existed. However, in 2018 the Fondazione Cineteca Italiana found a nearly complete nitrate negative from which it restored the film including the original hand tinting.

[Submitted by Michael Ferguson]