Peter Pan (franchise) Fairies franchise. Peter Pan is a 1953 theatrical film based on the play "Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up" by J. M. Barrie. The Peter Pan Story is a promotional featurette released in the lead up to the 1953 film, which serves as a behind-the-scenes look at the film's production. Return to Never Land is a 2002 theatrical film which serves as a sequel to the 1953 film. The Tinker Bell film series consists of six films, one half-hour special, and one six-minute short, and is based around the character Tinker Bell. Disney announced a live action
Operation Peter Pan Operation Peter Pan Operation Peter Pan (or Operación Pedro Pan) was a mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors to the United States between 1960 and 1962. Father Bryan O. Walsh of the Catholic Welfare Bureau created the program to provide air transportation to the United States for Cuban children. It operated without publicity out of fear that it would be viewed as an anti-Castro political enterprise. Father Bryan O. Walsh, director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, developed Operation Peter Pan in November 1960. He was inspired by Pedro Menéndez, a fifteen-year-old Cuban boy who had immigrated to Miami