Walt Disney’s Pinocchio premiered

February 23, 1940
The second animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Productions, Pinocchio, premiered in the US on this date.

During the musical number When You Wish Upon a Star, when a spotlight is seen on Jiminy Cricket, one is able to see two books to the left of the screen, which are Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland. Walt Disney started developing these two stories for the big screen at the time of this film’s release, and they would be released respectively in 1953 and 1951.

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