Artefact 5 – Walt – The Man Behind the Myth (2001)

This documentary directed by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and with Dick van Dyke as the narrator, opens with the premiere of MARY POPPINS in 1964, showing Walt Disney at the very height of his career.

In many ways MARY POPPINS is a culmination of Walt’s achievements in family entertainment, blending live action and animation in the way Walt experimented with it in the beginning of his career.

The 120 min. long WALT – THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH extensively features footage from the Disney Archives, early cartoons, interviews and a form of comical short films invented by Walt Disney in the beginning of his career which he called  “Laugh-O-Grams”.