Leslie Iwerks - Crafting "Handcrafted"
For Your Amusement: A Theme Park Podcast
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4.9 • 988 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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By some miracle, we got Leslie Iwerks (Director of “Imagineering Story”) into the Tiki Room to discuss her latest film, “Disneyland Handcrafted” - which is now available to stream on both Disney Plus AND Youtube!
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| 0:00.0 | How many interviews have you done for this, by the way, already? |
| 0:03.5 | Quite a few. I feel like at this point in the tenure, you're probably like thinking you're seeing things that you're in a teaky room. Yeah, let's be real. Like when they brought up a press tour, you're like this is the first thing that came to mind. In a teaky room. I feel like my shirt matches. It's kind of cool. No, it's definitely the vibe. Yeah. Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class. I'm Ryan Bergara. I'm Byron Marin, and I have a leg rest now. Yeah, you're probably wondering why we're sitting in |
| 0:38.2 | this configuration. And that's because today we have a very special treat for all of you guys. And |
| 0:42.6 | frankly, it's a special treat for us because we are going to be graced by the presence of |
| 0:46.9 | Leslie Iworks, a Disney Maestro in her own right and director of the docu-series, |
| 0:52.8 | Imagineering Story, as well as director of the feature-length |
| 0:55.6 | documentary Disneyland Handcrafted, which is available on Disney Plus and YouTube right now for you guys to |
| 1:01.9 | watch. She's going to be joining us in the Tiki Room. Disneyland Handcrafted, if you didn't know, |
| 1:06.7 | features rare archival footage from cameramen that Walt hired himself to document the process of |
| 1:12.7 | the building of Disneyland, which was a very, very stressful endeavor for Walt, and it's never |
| 1:17.6 | been seen like this before. |
| 1:19.0 | We got the chance to see it early and got this great opportunity to talk to Leslie about it. |
| 1:24.7 | And if you didn't know, Leslie's father, Don Iworks, created the 360 |
| 1:29.1 | camera used in CircleVision, and Leslie's grandfather of IWorks was Walt's original business |
| 1:34.7 | partner and co-creator of two little fellows that you may know, Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, |
| 1:40.2 | and one Mickey Mouse. I haven't heard of that guy. Have you heard of him? |
| 1:44.5 | No. |
| 1:45.1 | Anyways, we're grateful to have the opportunity to talk to Leslie, and we hope you guys |
| 1:49.8 | enjoy our conversation with Leslie IWorks, and stay tuned to the end because we have |
| 1:55.3 | something very special prepared that Leslie definitely got a kick out of because we just |
| 1:59.6 | talked to her. |
| 2:00.5 | You guys are going to love this one. |
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