Overview
- The documentary is streaming now on Disney+ and is also available to watch for free on Disney’s official YouTube channel as of January 22, 2026.
- Director Leslie Iwerks assembled the film from a large cache of decades-old reels in the Walt Disney archives, restoring roughly 50 hours of construction footage to high-resolution color.
- The presentation avoids talking heads by relying solely on archival visuals and first‑person audio clips to create a cinema vérité, on-the-ground view of 1954–55.
- Because the original material was shot without sound, period-accurate construction audio was meticulously rebuilt at Skywalker Sound to match the restored images.
- The film foregrounds the compressed timeline and on-site improvisation of the yearlong build, and Iwerks says its release was championed by Disney+ executive Jason Recher after the completed project had sat on the shelf.