Tagged: Ollie Johnston

Pinocchio Most Sumptuous of All

“What they can’t do these days!” exclaims Jiminy Cricket upon surreptitiously witnessing the Blue Fairy wave her sparkling wand and bring a wooden puppet to life. His direct address from the screen to the film’s viewers, almost unprecedented in animated...

DWARFS STEAL THE SHOW

The screen fades to black and now the film presents a whole new delightful surprise. So far it has established an already powerfully-engrossing storyline involving the romantic or dramatic relationships of four realistically-drawn human characters – the “Snow White half”...