Pinocchio

Mux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you the new Walt Disney feature, Pinocchio. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil P. DeMitt. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

This is a night that weaves a spell over the world. A time of reverence and rejoicing. A family reunions and storytelling by the fire. On this enchanted night, we can all believe implicitly specifically in stories like Pinocchio. Walt Disney transformed this old children's classic into a modern classic of the screen giving new life to the little people. You met him

at our microphone last year when we presented Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This year his chair is empty, but he has sent us Pinocchio. Walt is busy getting Pinocchio ready for its national screen release through RKO in February. And besides Mr. Disney's moving into a fine new studio at Burbank, the house that Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and Snow White

built. Tonight we introduce his latest characters for the first time in the house that Lux built. In two years of work on Pinocchio, 500 artists made about two million drawings of such likable people as Pinocchio himself, Jiminy Cricket, the Blue Fairy and old Geppetto, the woodcarver.

The Blue Fairy accomplishes some very wonderful things in Pinocchio, and she ought to feel right at home here because Lux Flakes, too, has quite a reputation as a doer of good deeds. They're the kind of good deeds that make life easier in your household when Lux Flakes plays the good fairy to our feminine listeners.

I feel we can make you see the beautiful color of the Disney picture as we bring you the story and spirit of Pinocchio. It's the spirit of all small boys who'd rather look for adventure than go to school.