AI claims it's true!

According to AI:

 

"Yes, Walt Disney hired 11 midgets to dress as puppets and wave to children at the premiere of Pinocchio in 1940, but they became drunk, naked, and unruly: 
The plan
Disney hired the midgets and dressed them as puppets, then put them on top of Radio City Music Hall in New York with food and wine. The idea was that they would wave to children entering the theater.
The outcome
By the middle of the afternoon, the midgets were drunk, naked, and screaming obscenities at the crowd below. The police had to climb ladders and take the midgets off in pillowcases."