![]() ![]() Starting with the source material, Kimball made early versions of Jiminy more insect-like. Kimball would later say, “Walt was a salesman!”įeeling reassured about his role at Disney, Kimball set to work on designing the Jiminy Cricket that we have come to know and love. When Kimball went to talk with Walt about his disappointment and possibly wanting to leave, Walt instead took it upon himself to sell him on Jiminy, assuring Kimball that this new character would play a major role in Pinocchio. Kimball was excited to be assigned a new character as he was feeling a little disheartened with his job at Disney both of his major assignments in Snow White, the fully-animated “Soup-Eating” sequence and the in-development “Bed-Building” sequence had been cut from the final version of the film. ![]() Walt went to veteran animator, Ward Kimball, with the assignment of Jiminy Cricket. According to story artist Joe Grant, Walt Disney came to the idea that he wanted the cricket to be a conscience for Pinocchio. At one point he was to be a vessel for the Blue Fairy who brings Pinocchio to life, at another he was the bumbling guide of Pinocchio who would bungle sage advice and suffer from temptation to the point that he also turns into a donkey along with Pinocchio on Pleasure Island. When writing him into the film his character went through several reimaginings during the planning and story stages of Pinocchio. In the fourth chapter of Collodi’s book, the Talking Cricket was a philosopher who attempted to advise Pinocchio, but the puppet got mad and smashed the cricket. Jiminy Cricket, the loveable cricket who plays the role of Pinocchio’s conscience, had a very different storyline in the original story. While the main character, Pinocchio, went through a full transformation from bratty, clunky wooden puppet, to the naïve, loveable, wooden boy in the movie other characters were likewise transformed or imagined for Disney’s version of Pinocchio. However, the transition from page to screen was not easy, each character from the book had to be made to fit Walt’s vision for the film. Walt saw inspiration in Carlo Collodi’s book Pinocchio. In the early 1930s Walt Disney was looking for an encore that would live up to the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, while continuing to push the boundaries of animation.
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