New Walt Disney documentary coming to PBS in 2015
A new four-hour two night film about Walt Disney will premiere in the fall of 2015 on PBS, PBS and the American Experience announced this week.
The two-night event will contain archival footage from the Disney vaults, interviews with animators, artists who worked on films and Imagineers who helped design Disneyland.
“Walt Disney is an entrepreneurial and cultural icon,” American Experience executive producer Mark Samels said in a press release. “No single figure shaped American culture in the 20th century more than he.”
The movie is being directed and produced by Sarah Colt, who worked on “Henry Ford” and “RFK,” and was written by Mark Zwonitzer of “JFK” and “Triangle Fire.”
According to the PBS new release, in 1966, the year Walt Disney died, “240 million people saw a Disney movie, 100 million tuned in weekly to a Disney television program, 80 million bought Disney merchandise, and close to seven million visited Disneyland.”
