This is a 1980s PHOTO COPY from DISNEY ANIMATION RESEARCH Dept. and NOT ORIGINAL 1930s DRAWINGS
This 1980s PHOTO COPY PRINT is from a model sheet that was originally from the Disney Studios during production of Pinocchio and issued to animators for their use in developing the sequence that was eventually deleted from the film.
The Dancing Puppets are characters from the 1940 Disney film, Pinocchio.
They are a group of puppets used by Stromboli in his touring puppet theater during the musical number "I've Got No Strings".
When Pinocchio is taken to Stromboli's puppet theater and Stromboli himself introduces Pinocchio to the audience, a group of toy soldier puppets blow their trumpets to begin Pinocchio's introduction and as Pinocchio performs on stage, he sings the musical number "I've Got No Strings" while Jiminy Cricket watches the show via lamppost.
After Pinocchio performs his solo act, the audience cheers for his performance and a Dutch-style background drops where a puppet representing a Dutch girl sings her part seeing Pinocchio being an unusual puppet during performance.
After the Dutch puppet sings her part, four Dutch puppets dance together while Pinocchio while Stromboli conducts the orchestra.
After the Dutch puppets perform their part, they leave as a French background drops behind Pinocchio.
A puppet representing a cancan dancer appears next to Pinocchio and performs her part where she describes Pinocchio being an unusual puppet and after that, four cancan puppets dance in front of Pinocchio performing their cancan dance while Jiminy sees an illustration of a woman in the background in excitement while the cancan puppets continue dancing.
After the cancan puppets perform their act, they leave as a Russian background drops behind Pinocchio.
A puppet representing a Russian girl appears and sings her part doing her traditional Russian dance while interacting with Pinocchio.
As the Russian girl leaves, various Cossack puppets dance in front of Pinocchio just as Pinocchio dances along with them.
Just as he dances with the puppets, Pinocchio sings, "There are no strings on me", just as the Cossack puppets leave.
The audience cheers for Pinocchio's performance, much to Jiminy commenting on Pinocchio about the audience liking his performance.
It then turns out that Stromboli's show is a touring puppet show, luring Pinocchio to a trap. The puppets make no further appearances after that.