Anyway, here's a compilation of posters from the release dates of the Disney movie, and one of my most favorites ever, Pinocchio. The film debuted on February 7, 1940 (and went into general release on the 23rd), and these two posters below are from that release:
This poster is from the film's first re-release on October 17, 1945, just a month and a half after the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II (also a month or so after the release for the Goofy cartoon Hockey Homicide which I think had a bit of a subtle publicity stunt; it's also the subject of its own post here):
The next re-release of Pinocchio came on February 18, 1954. Curiously, Pinocchio here has human-like five-fingered hands with no gloves on them! Here's the poster for the re-release here:
The next two re-releases, on January 18, 1962, and July 7, 1971, respectively, use basically the same kind of swirly poster design, somewhat appropriate for the 1960s and early '70s. The only difference, really, is that the 1971 poster is more white than the 1962 poster (which has a darker green swirl):
The next re-release of the film came on December 16, 1978, this one being paired up with an appropriate Christmas short (and one also containing donkeys!), The Small One. This is the poster for that re-release:
The next re-release of the film is another Christmas re-release, which came on December 21, 1984, just three months after the Disney company's changed its management dramatically with the arrivals of Michael Eisner and Frank Wells. The poster also contains a notice on the then-upcoming 30th anniversary of Disneyland:
And finally, here is the poster from the last theatrical re-release of Pinocchio, on June 26, 1992. It features the same amount of characters as in the 1945 re-release, as you can actually see (in the second one, anyway):
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that post on this blog. I will not be as active as I once was, unfortunately. I'll be able to post when things come to me, as this literally just did.
