Storybook opening

The storybook opening is a recurring theme in several of Disney's films, almost always used as an opening sequence. A similar trait is used for the closings, known as storybook closings.
==Shorts==
Niftynineties-title2.jpg|The Nifty Nineties
How to Ride a Horse title card.jpg|How to Ride a Horse
The Art of Skiing storybook opening.jpg|The Art of Skiing
Tumblr ng1gtgB9y01qhcrb0o1 1280.jpg|How to Fish
Pigs is pigs 3large.jpg|Pigs is Pigs
Social Lion.jpg|Social Lion
MickeyBeanstalkStorybook.png|Mickey and the Beanstalk (1955 version with Sterling Holloway)
Winnie-the-pooh-disneyscreencaps.com-13.jpg|Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
PoohBlusteryDayStorybookIntro.png|Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
PoohTiggerTooStorybookIntro.jpg|Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!
Dayeeyore-disneyscreencaps.com-5.jpg|Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore
Prince and the pauper storybook opening.jpg|The Prince and the Pauper
File:A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving Book.png|A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
File:Winnie the Pooh A Valentine For You.jpg|Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
The Ballad of Nessie title.jpg|The Ballad of Nessie
File:Boo To You Too Winnie the Pooh Book.jpg |ABC version of Boo to You Too! Winnie the Pooh 
File:Winnie the Pooh And Christmas Too Book.jpg|ABC version of Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too
==Movies==
Snowwhite-disneyscreencaps.com-9.jpg|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Pinocchio-disneyscreencaps.com-61.jpg|Pinocchio
Song-of-the-south-disneyscreencaps.com-3.jpg|Song of the South
Ichabod-mr-toad-disneyscreencaps.com-20.jpg|The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Ichabod-mr-toad-disneyscreencaps.com-4033.jpg|The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
Book from the Film.jpg|Cinderella
Sleeping-disneyscreencaps.com-14.jpg|Sleeping Beauty
Sword-disneyscreencaps.com-4.jpg|The Sword in the Stone
Junglebook-disneyscreencaps com-2.jpg|The Jungle Book
Robin-hood-disneyscreencaps com-2.jpg|Robin Hood
Winnie-the-pooh-disneyscreencaps.com-13.jpg|The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Belle-disneyscreencaps.com-6.jpg|Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World
Tigger-disneyscreencaps.com-17.jpg|The Tigger Movie
Merry-pooh-year-disneyscreencaps.com-50.jpg|Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
Title.woz.jpg|The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
Once Upon a Halloween storybook opening.png|Once Upon a Halloween
Chicken Little storybook opening.png|Chicken Little
Enchanted-disneyscreencaps.com-2.jpg|Enchanted
Storybook opening Carol.jpg|A Christmas Carol
Winnie2011-disneyscreencaps.com-34.jpg|Winnie the Pooh
Wish (2023) Storybook Opening.jpg|Wish
==Trivia==
*Although Beauty and the Beast didn't feature an actual storybook opening, it did feature a similar opening where it focused on stained-glass windows at the castle, and the initial draft for the film as written by Linda Woolverton featured an actual storybook opening similar to that of Snow White. Similar openings were also used for Hercules, which featured clay mural pots, Pocahontas, which used parchment, Mulan, which also used parchment, and Brother Bear with cave paintings.
*Chicken Little was originally supposed to have a Storybook opening, but it was cut. However, at the beginning of the movie there was a book, but then immediately turned down by Buck Cluck.
*Storybook openings were frequently used in early Disney animated features and features that adapted fairy tales and other books. Some of these included a closing as well (such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty, and the three Winnie the Pooh shorts), while others only had an opening (such as Pinocchio, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, and Robin Hood); those movies simply ended with the words "The End" appearing over the last scene of the film. Openings later had a hiatus since the release of Robin Hood (not counting the anthology movie The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) until being brought back via the direct to video midquel Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Magical World, the 3D animated film A Christmas Carol, the traditionally animated film Winnie the Pooh, and the 3D animated film Wish (which serves as a tribute to all Disney animated film concepts, including the storybook opening), released in 1998, 2009, 2011, and 2023, respectively.
**Similarly, Descendants also uses a storybook opening. However, instead of using a physical storybook, the film uses a digital e-book on an iPad.
*Make Mine Music and Melody Time presented the former as a stage play and the latter as a series of paintings. Music begins with the viewer "entering" the theater and the theater's curtains to reveal a program guide introducing the film's segments, and ends with the curtains closing, the lights turning back on, and "Make Mine Music: The End" being projected onto the curtains; while Melody begins with a magic paintbrush painting a picture of a stage with anthropomorphic masks introducing the film on the first painting, and ends with the brush painting the words "The End" on the last painting with "Melody Time" and "A Walt Disney Production" above and below the easel.
*The 1955 edit of Mickey and the Beanstalk with Sterling Holloway is the only version of the cartoon to have a storybook opening and closing (as, unlike other versions, there are no narration segments).
*Although it didn't have a direct storybook opening, The Princess and the Frog begins with Eudora telling the story of The Frog Prince to Tiana and Lottie using an actual storybook within the film itself.
**Disenchanted also shared the same idea, with Pip telling the story of the events of the first film by using one actual storybook and the story of the events of this film with another actual storybook.
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