Leslie Iwerks

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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · Leslie Iwerks | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan · 18 Mar 2026 podcast

And then I think just...

Just knowing all that went on that I felt like weren't in the books that I was reading and the stories I was hearing from the Disney side, I thought, well, there's a whole other story over here that people don't know.

And so to me, that was exciting to go back into the family story.

you know, photos and see all these great photos that he took when he was coming out from Kansas city and photos of Walt and teenagers.

And just, I, I wish that I had known him.

I wish that I had been able to interview him.

Yeah.

Well, I think what happened was I had considered making this documentary when I was at USC Film School as one of my projects.

And I thought, well, wait, let me do it once I graduate and let me see if I can get support.

I knew I had to get the support of the studio.

So basically, I got a meeting with Roy Disney, Roy E. Disney, and I said, I really want to do this film.

And

And he said, well, of course, your grandfather was a major, major part of the foundation of the studio, and his story should be told.

And so he went to Michael Eisner at the time, and they said, let's do it.

So I think it was...

um roy's trust in me and also he he was a big fan of my grandfather's i mean he worked with him and uh in the uh process lab when roy was filming the true life adventures he was my kids love those by the way yeah are they great and so he would go and take that film to the process lab where my grandfather was you know dealing with like all sorts of processing effects and things like that and um

He helped develop the technology that got rid of scratches in film.

And so a lot of that old scratchy footage would go through this bath, and ultimately it would all get cleaned up.

And so that's kind of how Roy really worked with my grandfather.

He said it was always just like there was magic going on in there.

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