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Walt Disney's second full-length animated feature: "Pinocchio" (1940)
Released today in Blu-ray and DVD
NYTimes:

Loosely based on a 19th-century children’s novel by Carlo Collodi, [Disney's] “Pinocchio” remains a technical summit of hand-drawn animation, executed with a grace and expressiveness of movement that even Disney’s artists were never quite able to recapture. On one level it is about the wonder of its own existence: the little wooden boy who comes to life is a metaphor for Disney’s process of creation, turning ink and paint into three-dimensional creatures that seem to breathe with a force of their own.

Set in a sort of anti-Disneyland theme park, in which the principal activities are smoking, drinking and fighting, the Pleasure Island sequence buzzes with a wealth of Freudian detail. Here the Disney film seems influenced by the Fleischer [brothers], suggesting the dark view of burgeoning sexuality portrayed in the brothers’ shorts like “Bimbo’s Initiation” (1931) and the Betty Boop version of “Snow-White” (1933).