I posted this on Facebook and animation expert Jerry Beck said the reason for the one-sheet featuring Jiminy Cricket was likely because "When You Wish Upon a Star" had become a huge hit after the movie came out, and that makes sense to me.
But Helmut's observation is also correct. We often forget that theaters would have lots of posters on display, sometimes cutting them up and re-arranging them into home-made special displays. On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 6:17 AM, Helmut Hamm <[email protected]> wrote: > Obviously, the onesheet in itself is pretty boring, to say the least. > However, imagine both the one-sheet AND the three-sheet combined on display > in front of the cinema: Completely different story. To me, both posters in > combination work extremely well. With the large puppet on the 3s and all > the secondary characters on the 1s, the overall impression must've been > really nice. > > Helmut > > The first time I saw this 1945 Pinocchio re-release one-sheet many years > ago I thought it quite odd for two reasons. > > First, it was from just five years after the initial release, and yet the > movie was re-titled to "Wonderful Adventures of Pinocchio", but what was > much more odd was that the poster almost doesn't have Pinocchio on it (see > the below image)! > > > > I guessed at that time that maybe the movie wasn't so popular the first > go-round, and so maybe they were trying to get it off of just being about > the wooden puppet and onto the great secondary characters (which might also > have explained the name change). > > But then recently I auctioned the three-sheet from this 1954 re-release, > which I had never had before, and it has the same re-titling, and yet it > has a huge image of Pinocchio (see the below image) so that seems to shoot > the above theory! > > > > The R54 three-sheet sold for $443. 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