After dinner I switched  the TV on and started zapping around. I caught on a kids channel the last part of Pinocchio 3000 K. Obviously it started much earlier and so I could see only the last 20 minutes of the movie but I really enjoyed it. Watch it!

As the title suggests it is an adaption of Pinocchio novel, just set in the distant future and the wooden puppet is now a robot. Really lovely. I checked on youtube and they seem to have the whole movie in parts (why  does this always surprise me?) Here is part 1

While watching it I was not actually remembering the Disney version movie, as most probably many other people will do, but the italian version with real actors from the ’70, directed by Luigi Comencini.

Here is the clip where Geppetto (Nino Manfredi) wakes up the night after creating the puppet and finds out he has be given “life” by the blue fairy:

The story is quite close to the original one written by Collodi, as far as I remember, but since almost the beginning Pinocchio is actually played by a real child.

Of course these were still not the only TV/cinema adaptions of the novel. I remembered for example having watched a sweet cartoon in the ’80, always based on Pinocchio’s story, here you can see the first part of the first episode. According to the description on youtube it is a japanese production from ’72, strangely enough this is the same year the italian TV serie with real actors was released.

And another great version was the one from 1947, always an italian production, directed by Giannetto Guardone. I never managed to catch the movie on TV in Italy and I don’t think there’s a DVD available, but here you can watch the scene where Pinocchio and Geppetto are trying to escape from the whale’s belly.

While I was writing it also came to my mind Benigni’s movie but that really would deserve a post of his own LOL.

And you, my friends, do you know any other TV or cinema adaption of the novel by Collodi?