But adaptation is its own art, here requiring seven screenwriters for seven directors. It's true that producer Walt Disney, in appropriating Carlo Collodi's 1883 children's novel, steered it into a homogenized version that, while populated with many of Collodi's creative concepts, is a horse of a different color. The best way, of course, is to revisit the films themselves, which Disney has been happy to make possible with periodic prying open of the "Disney vault." To revisit 1940's Pinocchio is to find a delightfully entrancing musical-fantasy moral parable for children, with enough artful craftsmanship and wit (and lessons in respectable behavior) to please their adult overseers. It can be difficult to set aside the litany of products and spin-offs-theme parks, Halloween costumes, coloring books, video games and the like-and remember clearly the actual merits of a Disney animated film.
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