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I was thinking about make a 1957 Pinocchio film (and remove the failed project we put in the Cancelled projects page), which can serve as an AU version of both the 1992 Golden Films version and the 1957 TV musical as a theatrical animated film.

Here is the Wikipedia page about the 1957 musical, plus the songs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinocchio_(1957_TV_program)

http://wilderworld.podomatic.com/entry/2007-10-13T21_52_42-07_00

But the major differences on this AU film (which also would shows more faithfulness to Collodi's novel) are these ones:
 * The Fox's sidekick, the Cat, is removed.
 * The opening scene is based on this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TLme3WDd0s)
 * During Pinocchio's first day of school (before Pinocchio going to the puppet theater), the school children think Pinocchio is weird and steal his apple, which mysteriously disappears. The Fox appears, holding the apple, and tells Pinocchio to use his knife to peel the apple, throwing the knife and stabbing Pinocchio in the chest. When the children leave, the Fox tells Pinocchio he is different because he is made of wood.
 * Like in Disney's version, the Fox is who persuades Pinocchio to go to the puppet show, while trying to steal his coins after realizing his plan failed.
 * When Pinocchio goes to the sea to rescue Gepetto (after returning to normal after doing good acts in his donkey form), he is stopped by the Fox who tells him why he wants to get rid of him. Pinocchio was carved out of a magical tree that the Fox was trying to destroy, and so he has sent Pinocchio to various dangerous situations. The Fox offers to pay Pinocchio for his head, but the Talking Cricket, who has followed Pinocchio, jumps onto the Fox and Pinocchio hits him in the head with a tree branch. At the end of the film, the Fox is arrested by a police officer when Pinocchio sees him in a passing paddy wagon. He begs Pinocchio to vouch for him but Pinocchio, knowing the Fox's motives and realizing that he was the crook who tired to kill him, tells the police officer that the Fox stole his coins and tried to kill him. The police officer then drives the paddy wagon away stating to the Fox that what all things he did to Pinocchio will be the result of a long prison sentence.

I was thinking about the Pinocchio from Shrek being a different version, just like the Rumpelstiltskin from Shrek the Third, who wasn't related to the one from Shrek Forever After.