# Pinocchio (1940) is released as a second animated feature of high craft, opening the 1940–42 trio with Fantasia and Bambi as distinct titled films on neighbouring rows

Date: 1940

## The fact

Pinocchio opened in the United States in February 1940, a feature [Disney](/people/walt-disney) produced from Collodi with elaborate effects and a conscience-cricket. He did not write 1883 Italian. War soon wrecked the European market. Education here is a public story-film of craft, distinct from Fantasia’s concert form and Bambi’s forest form. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Context

The ‘trio’ is three titles, three Facts if each is a distinct work — Pinocchio here, Fantasia and Bambi on their rows. Package films of the mid-40s are not these. Pleasure Island’s moral panic is mixed and not cloned as harm. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Shared responsibility is part of Pinocchio (1940) is released as a second animated feature of high craft, opening the 1940–42 trio with Fantasia and Bambi as distinct titled films on neighbouring rows. Naming Walt Disney does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1940-02-07 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## Evidence and sources

AFI Catalog records Pinocchio 1940. Britannica independently places it in the pre-war feature run. D23 history lists the title. No unique ticket census is invented. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: AFI Catalog of Feature Films (https://catalog.afi.com/; American Film Institute).

## Significance

A second animated feature of this craft is an education path. High confidence on the date. Later restorations are not 1940. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## What is established and what is not

Established: 7 February 1940 U.S. release under Disney producing. Not established: a unique child-literacy coefficient. Not Fantasia’s November. Not Bambi 1942. Archival locator: AFI Catalog of Feature Films at https://catalog.afi.com/ (American Film Institute). Independent locator: Britannica — Walt Disney at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Fantasia and Bambi are separate titled Facts, not clones of this premiere. Mixed effects of Pinocchio (1940) is released as a second animated feature of high craft, opening the 1940–42 trio with Fantasia and Bambi as distinct titled films on neighbouring rows are separate paths.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## People

- Walt Disney: https://factrail.ai/people/walt-disney

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://catalog.afi.com/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walt-Disney

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/wd-pinocchio-fantasia-bambi