Disneyland Handcrafted shows the crazy year building world’s first Disneyland

Today, California’s Disneyland – the first ever – is so fully formed that it is taken for granted. People debate ticket prices and crowd calendars, strategising the optimal time to visit. The new documentary Disneyland Handcrafted hits pause on all of that. Culled from about 200 hours of mostly unseen footage, director Leslie Iwerks’ film takes viewers back to the near beginning, tracing the largely impossible creation of the park from a year before its opening. “Can you imagine LA without...