Overview
- Disney confirms the documentary will debut January 22 on Disney+ and Disney YouTube.
- A new poster was released featuring Walt Disney surveying the Anaheim orange grove that became Disneyland.
- A premiere screening is planned on the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank later this week.
- Director Leslie Iwerks, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker and granddaughter of Ub Iwerks, leads the project.
- The film draws on more than 100 hours of newly unearthed 16mm footage and original audio to provide a fly-on-the-wall view of the yearlong construction leading to the July 17, 1955 opening.