Animation · Family · Fantasy
American
1940 · Directed by Hamilton Luske & Ben Sharpsteen & T. Hee & Wilfred Jackson & Norman Ferguson & Jack Kinney & Bill Roberts · 88 min
A lonely woodcarver builds a marionette and wishes it were a real boy. A small cricket is given the job of guiding the newly animated puppet through a world of temptations. It is a fairy tale with a gentle surface and a surprisingly dark edge.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining work of the Disney studio's first golden age, it showed that the full-length animated feature was a lasting art form and not a one-off success.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a study in how drawings are made to act: weight, glances and small gestures carry the emotion.
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