Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
For one hundred years, a legend spread across the planet without ever experiencing periods of oblivion | Watch my exclusive video on “Pinocchio: A True Story” by joining Nebula at go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller
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Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792
Additional Editing by Isaac Holland
Translation by Katherine Incandenza
Sources:
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, 1883
Additional Pinocchio Art from PINOCCHIO: Atlante delle edizioni italiane dal 1883 al 2022
Pinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover, 1991
I, Fellini by Charlotte Chandler, 1995
The Will to be Human by Silvano Arieti, 1972
Ma Collodi Non Esiste by Italo Calvino, 1981
Pinocchio and Pinocchiology by Jennifer Stone: jstor.org/stable/26304056
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Sculpted to Life by Matt Zoller Seitz: criterion.com/current/posts/8337-guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-sculpted-to-life
From Puppet to Cyborg: Posthuman and Postmodern Retellings of the Pinocchio Myth by Georgia Panteli: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1528658/13/Panteli_Georgia_PhD%20Thesis.pdf
Fellini's Language of Dreams by Jonathan Cott: maryellenmark.com/bibliography/magazines/article/rolling-stone/fellinis-language-of-dreams-637526308774480767/R#:~:text=It%27s%20a%20language%20made%20of,and%20it%20reduces%20its%20proportions.
From Kubrick to Spielberg: The Story of ‘A.I.’ by Tim Greiving: theringer.com/movies/2021/6/29/22553929/ai-artificial-intelligence-steven-spielberg-stanley-kubrick
Coppola loses $20m compensation for lost Pinocchio by Duncan Campbell: theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/22/filmnews.film
The Real Life Adventures of Pinocchio by Rebecca West: https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0212/features/puppet.html
Blank Check with Griffin and David (A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 2017): open.spotify.com/episode/0ABydvRDL3hmF64lPMBB1D
Media shown: Disney’s 1940 Pinocchio, Disney’s 2022 Pinocchio, Pinocchio: A True Story, Gullermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Lies of P, Handcarved Cinema: The Making of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Polar Express, A Christmas Carol, Beowulf, Welcome to Marwen, Dark Souls III, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Bloodborne,
Music Used (Chronologically): Cohen’s Masterpiece– Accordion (Bioshock Infinite), Lost in Thessaloniki (Trabant 33), Peaceful Sleep– Music Box (Nier Automata), I’ll See You in My Dreams (Isham Jones), March of the Ducks (Mike Franklyn), Invention No. 4 in D Minor (Bach), Last Move (White Bones), A New Power (SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE), The Midnight Woods (Hyper Light Drifter), Hallway Omega (SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE), Estella Opera House (Lies of P), Far East Princess (Lies of P), Saintess of Mercy Statue (Lies of P), Etude No. 3 for String Quartet (Peter Sandberg), Fallow Deer (Martin Klem), The Angels Descend A (Bayonetta), Marche Militaire Version 2 (Epidemic Sound), Ave Maria (Epidemic Sound), Only Human (Philip Ayers), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits), Feel (Lies of P)
Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound
Additional footage from Razbuten
Thumbnail and Graphic Design by twitter.com/HotCyder
Description credit: Ma Collodi Non Esiste by Italo Calvino
For one hundred years, a legend spread across the planet without ever experiencing periods of oblivion | Watch my exclusive video on “Pinocchio: A True Story” by joining Nebula at go.nebula.tv/jacob-geller
Watch my Nebula-exclusive video on yet another Pinocchio movie: nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-attempting-to-understand-pinocchio-a-true-story
Watch THIS video on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/jacob-geller-pinocchio-is-a-story-about-art-and-god
Merch: https://store.nebula.app/collections/jacob-geller
Patreon: patreon.com/JacobGeller
Instagram: instagram.com/jacobgellervideos
Twitter: twitter.com/yacobg42
Listen to the Something Rotten podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6IwFIGcSlhbFLaTsOqf7a8?si=f67e7ad225a14792
Additional Editing by Isaac Holland
Translation by Katherine Incandenza
Sources:
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, 1883
Additional Pinocchio Art from PINOCCHIO: Atlante delle edizioni italiane dal 1883 al 2022
Pinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover, 1991
I, Fellini by Charlotte Chandler, 1995
The Will to be Human by Silvano Arieti, 1972
Ma Collodi Non Esiste by Italo Calvino, 1981
Pinocchio and Pinocchiology by Jennifer Stone: jstor.org/stable/26304056
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio: Sculpted to Life by Matt Zoller Seitz: criterion.com/current/posts/8337-guillermo-del-toros-pinocchio-sculpted-to-life
From Puppet to Cyborg: Posthuman and Postmodern Retellings of the Pinocchio Myth by Georgia Panteli: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1528658/13/Panteli_Georgia_PhD%20Thesis.pdf
Fellini's Language of Dreams by Jonathan Cott: maryellenmark.com/bibliography/magazines/article/rolling-stone/fellinis-language-of-dreams-637526308774480767/R#:~:text=It%27s%20a%20language%20made%20of,and%20it%20reduces%20its%20proportions.
From Kubrick to Spielberg: The Story of ‘A.I.’ by Tim Greiving: theringer.com/movies/2021/6/29/22553929/ai-artificial-intelligence-steven-spielberg-stanley-kubrick
Coppola loses $20m compensation for lost Pinocchio by Duncan Campbell: theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/22/filmnews.film
The Real Life Adventures of Pinocchio by Rebecca West: https://magazine.uchicago.edu/0212/features/puppet.html
Blank Check with Griffin and David (A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 2017): open.spotify.com/episode/0ABydvRDL3hmF64lPMBB1D
Media shown: Disney’s 1940 Pinocchio, Disney’s 2022 Pinocchio, Pinocchio: A True Story, Gullermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Lies of P, Handcarved Cinema: The Making of Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, The Polar Express, A Christmas Carol, Beowulf, Welcome to Marwen, Dark Souls III, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Bloodborne,
Music Used (Chronologically): Cohen’s Masterpiece– Accordion (Bioshock Infinite), Lost in Thessaloniki (Trabant 33), Peaceful Sleep– Music Box (Nier Automata), I’ll See You in My Dreams (Isham Jones), March of the Ducks (Mike Franklyn), Invention No. 4 in D Minor (Bach), Last Move (White Bones), A New Power (SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE), The Midnight Woods (Hyper Light Drifter), Hallway Omega (SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE), Estella Opera House (Lies of P), Far East Princess (Lies of P), Saintess of Mercy Statue (Lies of P), Etude No. 3 for String Quartet (Peter Sandberg), Fallow Deer (Martin Klem), The Angels Descend A (Bayonetta), Marche Militaire Version 2 (Epidemic Sound), Ave Maria (Epidemic Sound), Only Human (Philip Ayers), Smooth Talking (Nocturnal Spirits), Feel (Lies of P)
Additional music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound
Additional footage from Razbuten
Thumbnail and Graphic Design by twitter.com/HotCyder
Description credit: Ma Collodi Non Esiste by Italo Calvino
