It allowed for realistic camera movements, separate foregrounding planes, and dolly shots, in two scenes in particular:the expensively-made, zooming-in shot into the village he morning after Pinocchio came to life, as doors opened to homes and children ran, birds flew, and people emergedJiminy""s POV of the landscape as he was leapingImpressive animation work (in the days long before computer animation) was also evident in many sequences:the radiant flames of the fireplace in the workshopthe band figures atop a wooden musical boxCleo the fish""s view of Pinocchio through the glass of her fishbowlJiminy""s chase after the two villains who have convinced Pinocchio to join them for a life of theatrical show-businessPinocchio""s stage debut, singing and dancing with other marionettesPinocchio trapped inside a hanging bird cage on Stromboli""s jostling wagon during a thunderstorm, with flashes of lightning briefly illuminating the lifeless marionettes that hung corpse-like all around hima forlorn Geppetto, searching desperately for his lost son, watching as the carriage that imprisoned Pinocchio passed him by in the rainthe shimmering underwater view ofvarious ropical fish, sea anemones, seahorses, clams and shoals of fish before Monstro the whale appearedthe whale""s capture of a school of tuna, the sneeze hat sends a torrent of water (and the raft) from its mouth, and he whale""s pursuit of them on a raftThe lively soundtrack, with five songs, perfectly complemented he story: the film""s theme song "When You Wish Upon a Star" (sung wice), "Little Woodenhead," "Give a Little Whistle," "Hi Diddle Dee Dee (An Actor""s Life for Me)," and "I""ve Got No Strings.She is told that he lives "right across the bay there...in the white house...that""s where the Brenners live." Melanie is relieved o learn that Mitch isn""t married.He lives in the house with his mother Lydia, and his sister: "just Lydia and the two kids...Mitch and the little girl." Rather than taking the road "around he bay to the front door," Melanie wants to take the more direct route "to surprise them," so she decides to soon rent an outboard boat by the Tides Restaurant and "cut right across he bay to their dock....A bunch of us parents tracked him down after they let him out.We found him in an old abandoned boiler room where he used to take his kids...Took gasoline, poured it all around the place, and made a trail of it out the door.Then lit the whole thing up and watched it burn.But he can""t get you now.He""s dead, honey, because Mommy killed him."She unwrapped the dirty bundle, displaying Fred""s gloved and rusted blade knives that she had saved.She was frazzled: "I just have this weird feeling today." Julie denounced the phone caller as a "sick f--k," and Heather admitted that her nerves were a "little raw" - probably from the many ""shakers"" there had been.He is existentially lost.Through a rainy taxicab windshield, we see he rainy, slick streets, an allegorical underworld vision composed of hustlers and derelicts, and a foreshadowing of the future tone of the film.