Leslie Iwerks

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Leslie Iwerks is the director behind this documentary, which is exactly what it sounds like.

It is the story of Disneyland being built by hand in large machines from scratch.

And it opens up with a year, like a footage, stock footage of a year after Disneyland had been open.

him.

Fortunately, we've got his daughter, Leslie Iwerks, who you ought to have on this show.

I did.

And she's a wonderful interview.

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... please send in your ideas to reedygeeks@gmail.com. On today's episode, the geeks discuss our feedback on Leslie Iwerks' new documentary, World Builders.

[upbeat music] So in one of our recent episodes, we talked about Bob Weiss and the history of Walt Disney Imagineering.

We touched on something that we thought has become increasingly interesting about Disney.

Disney doesn't just want us to know the attractions they created.

We're increasingly being invited to know who created them and how they think and what inspired them, and that brings us to today's episode.

Leslie Iwerks' new documentary, World Builders, takes that idea and expands it beyond Imagineering, looking at the creative people behind the worlds Disney creates across movies, animation, and the parks.

The three of us watched World Builders and today we're gonna share our biggest takeaways, what stood out to us, what we learned, and what the documentary says about the people behind Disney experiences that we know and love.

If Walt had listened to everyone, we wouldn't have what we have.

Okay? And he was out of time and under budget if you have seen Leslie Iwerks films.

He was over budget.

But you have to bet on yourself.

And so someone like that is able to fill in additional aspects to their Disney story.

But we have authors and researchers who have really gone on some great sleuthing activities because Disney, photos of animators that we don't know and then you talk to someone whose father or mother worked at the disney studio and they go yes i know who that was they were our next door neighbor and so suddenly we put a name with the face and so there's a lot of that kind of behind the scenes work where you go oh does anybody know who this is and so that happens sometimes their email threads and and discoveries and so forth i think that was one of the exciting parts about the Leslie Iwerks documentary, Disneyland Handcrafted, because there were instances where you hear the audio, the voice of some of those famous names that I had recognized, but I had not heard what they sounded like.

Yes,

yes, yeah.

Nope.

And last but not least, next week we are going to be talking about the new documentary that came out from Leslie Iwerks called Worldbuilders.

We're going to give our takeaways from watching that show.

It's about an hour long.

And if you would like to watch it before that episode, this is the week to watch it so that you can know what we're talking about and we can have a great discussion on Instagram as well.

Yeah, the same person that did the Disneyland documentary that came out last year, Leslie Iwerks, who is the daughter of one of the original Imagineers, is the person that directed this and put it together.

Yes, yeah.

So give that a watch, and we'll share our takeaways next week.