Building Walt's Dream

Here is some extremely rare footage of Disneyland before they actually broke ground 1 year before it opened in 1955. It's called Walt's Reel, and features Walt and Roy checking out and explaining the details of the layout for Disneyland to various people inside and outside Disney. His brother Roy was pretty camera shy and is rarely seen on camera. Although here he smiles like he knew it was all going to work out in the end. Roy by the way provided all the financing brains behind the huge project. He was the one who had to convince the banks to break out their checkbooks and that Disneyland would be a moneymaker. Walt and Roy were tired of going to the banks for loans to cover the payroll in between movies and always wanted some other source of income to keep the studio afloat during slow times in between pictures. Well Disneyland turned out to cost a lot more than they originally expected and it took a lot of work to convince the bankers to keep shelling out the dough.
If you enjoyed this clip see the rest here Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5