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Starting in 1883, Carlo Collodi's serialized novel, ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'', enjoyed great success in it's native Italy and made Collodi a very successful and well-known author in his home country while he was alive and the story of Pinocchio itself has become the 3rd-most translated story in history. Far more than a century after Collodi's death in 1890, Pinocchio's success and popularity has endured and he remains a very popular children's story figure around the world, having inspired numerous feature-length films for both theaters and television, TV specials, and a mini-series here and there, all with varying degrees of quality and success, the most known of these adaptations being the 1940 feature-length animated film by Walt Disney and his production company of the same name.
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'''''Le avventure di Pinocchio''''' (directed by Giulio Antamoro) is the oldest film adaptation of Pinocchio known to exist.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220810225513/https://amslaurea.unibo.it/23486/</ref> With a runtime of between 52 and 54 minutes, it also holds the distinction of being one of the first feature-length films. Ferdinand Guillaume, at the time one of the best-known performers in Italy's world of comedy on stage and screen, plays Pinocchio with his brother Natalino playing Lucignolo (better known by the name of Lampwick), Augusto Mastripietri playing Geppetto, and Lea Giunchi playing the Blue Fairy. After taking only a few months to be completed, the film came out in November of 1911 and enjoyed great financial and critical success in its native Italy and an abridged version of the film was exported to other nations.


However, that was far from the first adaptation of Pinocchio; aside from the [https://lostmediawiki.com/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio_(lost_unfinished_Italian_animated_film_based_on_novel;_1930s) unfinished 1936 Italian animated film] and a Soviet Russian film based on ''Buratino'', a Russian analogue of Pinocchio created by Aleksey Tolstoy (distant relative of Leo), entitled ''The Golden Key'' had come out in 1939, there also exists a silent film adaptation that predates The Golden Key by at least 28 years.
==Rediscovery==
However, as the film stock that would have been used at the time was highly combustible, enough copies were destroyed in fires, improperly stored which led to irreversible deterioration, or were simply misplaced due to poor record-keeping that the film was presumed to have joined the ranks of thousands of other silent films of the early-1900s as having been lost to time entirely, save for five minutes of heavily-deteriorated film. Fortunately, in 1994, the film's original negative was discovered at Cineteca Italiana, Italy's film archive, in good enough condition to be converted into a viewable film.<ref>https://www.piccoloteatro.org/it/2014-2015/cinema-musicato-pinocchio</ref> In 2002, ''TIME'' magazine reported that a 30-minute cut, likely one of the exported prints that were shortened, had been found and restored.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20200806232854/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,364351,00.html</ref>


It is merely entitled ''Le avventure di Pinocchio'' and, having came out in 1911, is the oldest film adaptation of Pinocchio known to exist. With a runtime of between 52 and 54 minutes, it also holds the distinction of being one of the first feature-length films. Ferdinand Guillaume, at the time one of the best known performers in Italy's world of comedy on stage and screen, plays Pinocchio with his brother Natalino playing Lucignolo (better known by the name of Lampwick), Augusto Mastripietri playing Geppetto, and Lea Giunchi playing the Blue Fairy. After taking only a few months to be completed, the film came out in November of 1911 and enjoyed great financial and critical success in it's native Italy and an abridged version of the film was exported to other nations.
The restored film was screened in 2018, more than a century after its initial release, at the Zorilla Theater in Spain and was accompanied by live electronic music courtesy of Miclono, a local musical band.<ref>https://www.festivalfilmets.cat/en/la-combinacio-de-la-projeccio-de-la-pel%C2%B7licula-muda-de-1911-pinocchio-elettronico-amb-musica-electronica-interpretada-en-directe-al-teatre-zorrilla-causa-sensacio-al-festival-fi/</ref>


However, as the film stock that would have been used at the time was highly combustible, enough copies were destroyed in fires, improperly stored which led to irreversible deterioration, or were simply misplaced due to poor record-keeping that the film was presumed to have joined the ranks of thousands of other silent films of the early-1900s as having been lost to time entirely, save for five minutes of heavily-deteriorated film. Fortunately in 1994, the film's original negative was discovered in good enough condition to be converted onto viewable film. In 2002, ''TIME'' magazine magazine reported that a 30-minute cut, likely one of the exported prints that was shortened, had been found and restored.
==Contemporary reception==
The film itself has been described by ''Cineteca Italiana'' as being a rather loose adaptation of the original story but being a very unsettling and unnerving film, due to adapting such a surreal story to a medium that was still in its infancy and had yet to be perfected.


The restored film was screened in 2018, more than a century after it's initial release, at the Zorilla Theater in Spain and was accompanied by live electronic music courtesy of Miclono, a local musical band.
==Gallery==
<gallery mode=packed heights=150px>
File:2023-05-15 (1).png|thumb|The first screen appearances of "Honest" John and Gideon.
File:2023-05-15.png|thumb|Pinocchio being carved from wood.
File:2023-05-15 (2).png|thumb|A surreal scene where a lion judge has Pinocchio thrown in jail. Note the bulldog bailiffs.
</gallery>


The film itself has been described as being a rather loose adaptation of the original story but being a very unsettling and unnerving film, due to adapting such a surreal story to a medium that was still in it's infancy and had yet to be perfected.
==References==
{{reflist}}


==Gallery==
==Extended Links==
[[File:2023-05-15 (5).png|thumb|Ferdinand Guillaume as Pinocchio]][[File:2023-05-15.png|thumb|Pinocchio being carved from wood]][[File:2023-05-15 (1).png|thumb|The first screen appearances of "Honest" John and Gideon]]
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio_(1911_film)
[[File:2023-05-15 (2).png|thumb|A surreal scene where a lion judge has Pinocchio thrown in jail. Note the bulldog bailiffs.]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194248/ IMDb page of the film.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IPiyHe1XA&t=1740s A video explaining the film.]  
 
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2023-05-15 (5).png

Ferdinand Guillaume as Pinocchio.

Status: Found

Date found: 1994

Found by: Cineteca Italiana

Le avventure di Pinocchio (directed by Giulio Antamoro) is the oldest film adaptation of Pinocchio known to exist.[1] With a runtime of between 52 and 54 minutes, it also holds the distinction of being one of the first feature-length films. Ferdinand Guillaume, at the time one of the best-known performers in Italy's world of comedy on stage and screen, plays Pinocchio with his brother Natalino playing Lucignolo (better known by the name of Lampwick), Augusto Mastripietri playing Geppetto, and Lea Giunchi playing the Blue Fairy. After taking only a few months to be completed, the film came out in November of 1911 and enjoyed great financial and critical success in its native Italy and an abridged version of the film was exported to other nations.

Rediscovery

However, as the film stock that would have been used at the time was highly combustible, enough copies were destroyed in fires, improperly stored which led to irreversible deterioration, or were simply misplaced due to poor record-keeping that the film was presumed to have joined the ranks of thousands of other silent films of the early-1900s as having been lost to time entirely, save for five minutes of heavily-deteriorated film. Fortunately, in 1994, the film's original negative was discovered at Cineteca Italiana, Italy's film archive, in good enough condition to be converted into a viewable film.[2] In 2002, TIME magazine reported that a 30-minute cut, likely one of the exported prints that were shortened, had been found and restored.[3]

The restored film was screened in 2018, more than a century after its initial release, at the Zorilla Theater in Spain and was accompanied by live electronic music courtesy of Miclono, a local musical band.[4]

Contemporary reception

The film itself has been described by Cineteca Italiana as being a rather loose adaptation of the original story but being a very unsettling and unnerving film, due to adapting such a surreal story to a medium that was still in its infancy and had yet to be perfected.

Gallery

  • The first screen appearances of "Honest" John and Gideon.

    The first screen appearances of "Honest" John and Gideon.

  • Pinocchio being carved from wood.

    Pinocchio being carved from wood.

  • A surreal scene where a lion judge has Pinocchio thrown in jail. Note the bulldog bailiffs.

    A surreal scene where a lion judge has Pinocchio thrown in jail. Note the bulldog bailiffs.

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220810225513/https://amslaurea.unibo.it/23486/
  2. ↑ https://www.piccoloteatro.org/it/2014-2015/cinema-musicato-pinocchio
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200806232854/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,364351,00.html
  4. ↑ https://www.festivalfilmets.cat/en/la-combinacio-de-la-projeccio-de-la-pel%C2%B7licula-muda-de-1911-pinocchio-elettronico-amb-musica-electronica-interpretada-en-directe-al-teatre-zorrilla-causa-sensacio-al-festival-fi/

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