Overview
- The feature-length documentary arrives on Disney+ and Disney’s official YouTube channel on January 22 following select theatrical screenings.
- Iwerks assembled the film from roughly 100 hours of previously unseen construction footage discovered within about 200 hours of newly scanned archives.
- The reels were shot without sound, so Skywalker Sound led an extensive Foley and mix process under Bonnie Wild to recreate authentic 1950s worksite audio.
- Composer Cyrus Reynolds provides a score designed to blend with the mechanical rhythms of the build rather than overpower the archival imagery.
- The film eschews talking-head interviews in favor of first-person archival audio, highlighting hands-on craftsmanship as well as risky pre-OSHA practices captured on camera.