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1911
The first cinematic adaptation of Collodi's Pinocchio, a silent film directed by Giulio Antamoro, features a famous French mime and actor, Polydor, in the role of the puppet. In its cinematic genealogy, the puppet must become a man, in order to come alive on the screen. The fact that the puppet who became a boy is actually played by an adult man adds another "uncanny" twist to Collodi's tale.
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1817
Among Pinocchio's ancestors in Romantic literature, one may include the wooden puppet Olympia, from "The Sandman," a famous tale by E.T.A. Hoffmann
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1880-83
Pinocchio is first published.
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1925
In his essay "The Uncanny," referring to E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale "The Sandman," Sigmund Freud links the feeling of "something uncanny" (for ex., the uncertainty whether an object is living or inanimate, such as a wooden puppet), both to the phenomenon of the "double" and to an unconscious fear of castration
