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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: observation
22 Jun 2026 Acquired The Walt Disney Company
“There's a team of operators to make it work. You had to climb a ladder to get all the way to the top.”
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Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- observation
- Recorded
- 22 Jun 2026
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- The Walt Disney Company
Transcript context
…Yes, yes. And then Walt rehired Iwerks later to come back and lead within Disney. Yep. Like process improvement for how we do animation. So Disney created the first one to be used in a feature film. It is unbelievably cool. It has an entire massive room to itself. There's a team of operators to make it work. You had to climb a ladder to get all the way to the top. So here's how it works. There's a still frame photo camera mounted on the top of this thing, pointed straight down. Yeah, it's like, what, probably 15 feet tall.…
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