If not for Walt Disney's sanitized* 1946 retelling of Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, gazillions of kids might never have known what a bassoon was or why one should never go into the woods searching for wolves.
This updated version is narrated by David Bowie.
*In Walt's world, the bird escaped the wolf. In real life, the wolf ate the bird but forgot to chew before swallowing. That is why the bird could be heard chirping inside the wolf's tummy.
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