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[man narrating] On a warm California day
at Pixar Animation Studios...
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a familiar face has arrived
for a morning meeting.
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Let's go sit. Come on.
We'll talk about the day.
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-Hello. Nice to see you.
-How are you?
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-Come sit next to me.
-I know...
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[narrator] Bob Iger is the CEO
of The Walt Disney Company,
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which owns Pixar.
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And these meetings,
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the kind where he gets to talk ideas
with his creative people...
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are the kind he loves.
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Well, I get to draw in the story.
[chuckling] At least let me do that.
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There are always new things
on the horizon to talk about.
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New concepts, new technology.
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Wow, it reached the Philippines.
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New possibilities.
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I mean, the stories, by nature,
are so hard to crack.
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And you never know when an old story
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about his days in charge
of programming the Olympics on ABC
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might be good for a laugh as well.
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Everything starts to melt.
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The bobsled run is melting.
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And I've got nothing to put on, except
maybe Sweden versus Romania in hockey.
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[people chuckle]
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[narrator] But ultimately,
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he's always sure to remind his colleagues
of their greatest objective.
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A lot of what we do, what we make,
is to inspire audiences,
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but it's just as valuable to us
and as fulfilling to us
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when we inspire the people
who work for us too.
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[male Pixar employee] Yeah.
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[Iger] First of all,
I get motivated by great creativity.
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-That's--
-[chuckling]
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It's, you know, so much a part
of what we do as a company.
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I get motivated by working
with an incredibly large and diverse group
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of extremely talented people
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that come to work every day
with a passion for what they do.
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[narrator] On any given day,
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in so many different places...
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you'll find countless ways
that people at Disney,
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the cast members as they're called...
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contribute to a common mission.
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[Ranft] The collaboration
is where it's most exciting.
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[Mylniczenko]
We're very compassionate people.
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You want to be able to solve problems.
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[Roberts] I got in the habit
to be optimistic.
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[Goldberg] I never thought
I'd be good enough to work at Disney.
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[Lee] Every year for my birthday,
I would ask to go to Disneyland.
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[Gonzales] It was that idea of adventure.
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[Baker] Star Wars was something that
I never thought I would ever get to do.
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[Meinerding] It is a joy that
we get to work on stuff that we all love.
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[Girdich] I can create something
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that I never thought could exist
in the physical world.
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[Magudulela] I still get chills
when I'm... [chuckles] singing.
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I feel like we're giving them a gift.
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[narrator]
These are the stories of what they do...
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and what it means to them.
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This is One Day at Disney.
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Walt Disney,
the name so ingrained in the culture
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it's almost easy to forget
it once belonged to a man...
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who in the 1920s began a company founded,
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more than anything else...
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on the power of imagination.
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[Iger] Anytime a child goes
to his or her first movie
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it's a memorable experience.
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In my particular case, my grandparents
took me to see Cinderella,
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when, I believe, I was four years old.
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In Brooklyn, New York,
seeing a classic Disney film,
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I think, was maybe fortuitous
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because it stuck with me my whole life.
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[Brown] Iger is one of millions
who can tell that kind of story.
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But across every generation,
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Walt Disney's original passion has endured
at the company's heart...
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animation.
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[Goldberg] I'm one of the guys
who gets to draw Mickey.
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I take pride in the fact
that the studio trusts me enough.
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It's kind of like being handed
the keys to the castle.
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I remember the first time
that I drew Mickey in a public forum,
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Roy Disney, Walt's nephew, was with us.
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And I'm thinking to myself, "Oh, my God,
[chuckling] I better not screw this up."
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When I was very young,
the first Disney movie I saw was Dumbo.
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I was just absolutely struck...
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by how wonderful animation looked
and made me feel.
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It's life, pushed. [chuckles]
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It's making something larger than life.
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I was a very focused kid.
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You know, knowing at a very early age
what I wanted to do.
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I've made my key positions,
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and now I'm putting the positions
in between to help flesh out the movement.
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When I started making my Super 8 films,
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my parents would willingly
give over the dining room table,
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and I would lay out all my cels,
drying, you know, [chuckles]
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and the living room would become
where I would shoot the stuff
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on my downshooter.
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Put a new sheet of paper down.
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I never thought that I'd be good enough
to work at Disney.
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Back in 1974,
I applied to their training program.
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And the response was,
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"Well, you didn't make it, Eric.
You're not good enough."
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In the late '80s, in London,
I was running my own animation studio.
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It was a very successful
commercials company.
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But I was getting very stressed out
working on commercials.
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I go to an animation festival
in Los Angeles, bringing my reel,
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and there are a couple
of Disney guys there.
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One was Charlie Fink,
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who just kept calling me once a month.
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"You wanna jump ship yet, huh?
You wanna join Disney's yet, huh?"
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Charlie finally dropped the bombshell.
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He said, "They're thinking of doing
this film Aladdin.
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And they're thinking
of getting Robin Williams."
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I just thought,
"Okay, if I don't do this now,
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I'm gonna miss the crest of a wave."
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My first week at Disney,
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and I'm starting to draw
developmental sketches of the Genie.
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And here we are.
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If you look at Mickey,
he's got this organic way of being drawn
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where one line leads to the next.
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Same thing with the Genie.
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You know, you've got all these lines
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that kind of add up to something whole.
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So, I started doing Robin William-esque
Genies in my designs.
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John and Ron said,
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"Why don't you take a couple
of Robin's bits off his comedy records
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and animate a Genie to them?"
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But first, before we do the play,
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I'd like to talk about
the very serious subject of schizophrenia.
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-No, he doesn't.
-Shut up! Let him talk!
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[audience laughs]
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[Goldberg] And I have to say,
it's one of the great joys of my life
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to have made Robin Williams laugh.
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[screams]
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-Oy!
-[bones crack]
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Ten thousand years
will give you such a crick in the neck!
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[Goldberg] I was in the right place
at the right time.
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Animation, all of a sudden, is hip again.
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Aladdin was getting towards that peak
of what people call the Renaissance.
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Welcome to my wall.
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[chuckles]
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The Shanghai assignment was great.
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They wanted to decorate a restaurant
in Shanghai Disneyland,
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à la Hirschfeld/Sardi's.
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I even got to do modern characters
like Anna and Elsa.
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Whenever I have to draw characters
from the Disney canon,
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I always feel all those people
who created those characters
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looking over my shoulder saying,
"Do it right."
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[chuckles]
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Often, they would straddle two drawings
like this with Gaston and LeFou.
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Every one of these movies has a theme
and they're universal.
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How many people of our generation
grew up dealing with death
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because they saw Bambi's mother die?
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[calling] Mother?
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♪ I've got no strings
To hold me do-- ♪
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[Goldberg] With Pinocchio, it's,
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"Always let your conscience
be your guide."
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In the case of Aladdin,
the theme was, "Be yourself."
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And even though, yes,
they do deal with serious subjects,
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you always walk out of a Disney film
delighted and feeling like...
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"Yeah, that was great.
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I think I'm gonna see it again."
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[chuckles]
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Walt Disney's name is the company's name.
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I'm reminded every day
that I come to work,
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when I drive onto the Disney lot,
of the company's heritage.
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I never lose sight of not only
the significance of that
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but of just how fortunate
I consider myself.
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Now we want you to share with us
our latest and greatest dream.
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That's it. Right here.
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Disneyland.
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[Brown] When Walt Disney
built Disneyland in the 1950s,
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the park was designed
to inspire a timeless sense of adventure
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for visitors of all ages.
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Look it. I got something for ya.
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-You're gonna pin that onto your shirt.
-Oh, you wanna wear that?
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-Wow. You're gonna wear it on your shirt?
-[Gonzales] That's a conductor badge.
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Ours is not just a mode of transportation,
as I don't like to think of it that way.
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Come on in, guys. Welcome aboard.
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Here at Disneyland,
we try to recreate that idea of traveling
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to get to somewhere new,
somewhere exciting.
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Just the sound of that whistle.
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[train whistle blowing]
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[train bell ringing]
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The wood burner.
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Big plume of smoke
coming out through the top.
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It never gets old.
It will never get old for me.
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You hop on that train set, and boom,
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and you just automatically
go right back in time.
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It was that old idea of adventure.
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That's one of my favorite parts
of the job, actually.
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Welcome to Disneyland Railroad roundhouse.
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We have four different sets of tracks.
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We're standing in front
of locomotive number four.
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This locomotive was built in 1925
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works company.
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And it was brought here
to Disneyland in 1958
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and put on the line in 1959.
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Part of our rite of passage
when we first joined the railroad
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is working night shifts.
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At the end of the night, we'll have to
polish any of the brass that you see here.
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When I was two years old,
probably one of my earliest memories,
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my grandfather bought me
a train set for Christmas.
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And, of course,
me being the little sneaky kid that I was,
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I found it in the closet.
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And I remember staring at that train set
for almost a month straight.
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And, finally, Christmas came,
and you know, I opened it up,
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"Oh, surprise, surprise.
There's a train set."
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I still have it to this day.
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In high school, I used to sneak out...
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get on the Green Line, go to the Blue Line
and go to Union Station
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and just study and do my homework
in the terminal.
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Used to just sit there
and kinda take it in.
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Think about the heyday in the '40s.
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And the steam engines that were
coming in and out of that station.
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All aboard!
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[Gonzales] Through college,
I was working on cars
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and taking apart motors
and anything I could get my hands on.
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Naturally, I came here
when I was going to college,
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looking to even get a glimpse
of the steam engines.
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Now I get to run them
which is a dream come true.
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People often say
it all started with a mouse,
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but I firmly believe
it all started with a train.
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Walt was coming out to Los Angeles,
and that's where he drew up Mickey Mouse.
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It was on a train that he did that.
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Often, he would come out
from his apartment
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that's right here on Main Street,
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hop on a locomotive and take it away.
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Some people didn't even know
they were being pulled by Walt Disney.
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He was just, you know,
a big kid playing with his toys.
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[train whistle blowing]
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Good morning.
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It's unbelievable what I get to do,
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be it I'm sitting inside the cab
of a locomotive.
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It's also the people, not only
my coworkers that I get to work with,
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which are like-minded
and they're a lot of fun to work with,
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but also the guests.
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-Make sure you visit Mickey Mouse's house.
-Okay.
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It's satisfying everything I ever thought
I would wanna do in life.
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It's pretty neat.
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I wanted to be
a television news anchorman.
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Twenty-five thousand tickets
were sold in advance for the concert
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which will feature the Grateful Dead,
the Allman Brothers and The Band...
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I aspired to be Walter Cronkite.
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I discovered early on that the likelihood
of my being Walter Cronkite...
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[chuckling] was pretty, pretty low.
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And so I redirected
and ended up in production.
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[Brown] These days in New York City...
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one of Iger's colleagues
who fulfilled her dream
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of getting in front of the camera...
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-Morning.
-Good morning, Richie.
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-Good morning, Ms. Roberts.
-You're on your best behavior, aren't you?
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...wakes up long before dawn
to be ready for work.
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[Roberts] I love this job.
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-What's up, Elvis?
-Good morning.
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I love saying, "Good morning, America."
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Think about that. I get to set the tone.
We get to set the tone for America.
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All right.
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The hours, as you saw, going to bed early.
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I'm a sports hound and have to go to bed
early and miss some of the late games.
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Ah. It's a small sacrifice.
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It's gonna be a magical day.
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Sal. Getting ready.
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-This is teamwork here.
-What up, troops?
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-Good morning, Robin.
-Oh, my God.
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I mean, I wish the camera
could go all around to see
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what it takes to put on a show
like Good Morning America.
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-What's up, people?
-Good morning.
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Teamwork, discipline, determination.
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I took that with me from playing sports.
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This is my glam fam.
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This is Elena, Petula, D'Andre.
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It helped that I worked at ESPN,
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that I had this love for sports.
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Sports, knew it cold.
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I never worked a day in my life at ESPN.
Shh, don't tell anybody that.
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We're leading with the terrifying story,
it's the Denver story...
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Coming here to ABC,
I loved that it pushed me.
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I know. I got an e-mail during the show,
and it was really good.
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My knees were knocking under that desk
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when I was sitting next to Diane Sawyer
for the first time.
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But then the athlete in me came through
in realizing that I had done my homework.
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[whispering]
George Stephanopoulos. George.
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I had earned the right to be there.
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And I'm so grateful for the support staff
that I had to help me.
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-One Day at Disney.
-Hi, guys.
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[chuckles]
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Optimism is a muscle
that gets stronger with use.
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I got in the habit at an early age
to be optimistic.
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[director] Five, four, three...
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I almost feel like
we are a Disney attraction.
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Like, people really look forward
to seeing us.
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The news is very serious. The information
that we're conveying is very serious,
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but there's also a component
of our program
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where you can spend time
with the audience.
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-[crowd] Good morning!
-How are you?
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They've come from all over, not only
the country but all over the world.
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-Just got off the airplane.
-Just got off the airplane?
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And, boy, are my arms--
And, boy, are my arms tired?
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I draw energy from them.
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-Nice to have you all here.
-Thank you.
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I'm curious. Curiosity.
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I never-- I never lose sight of that.
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I'm always-- I'm thirsty for knowledge.
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[Brown] So, every story is a chance
to learn something new
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and the best ones
offer the chance for even more...
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like the call she got
from Washington in 2012.
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There's word on the street
that President-- then President Obama--
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was going to change his position
on marriage equality.
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I was picked to do the interview.
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So, I sit down across from the President
of the United States of America,
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and I say to him, "Have you changed--
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Mr. President, have you changed
your position on marriage equality?"
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It is important for me
to go ahead and affirm that
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I think same-sex couples
should be able to get married.
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It was a very special moment
to know that you are part of history,
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so I'm feeling pretty good about myself.
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We have a producer over to the side
who has little blue cards
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with little, you know, time cues
and little notes and everything.
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Did you discuss this with--
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I think she's gonna say,
"You rock! You're the best!"
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It said, "Lipstick on teeth."
So, when I said the statem--
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when he made the statement,
I had lipstick on my teeth,
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which made me think of my mother's saying,
"When you strut, you stumble."
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'Cause I thought I was all that.
I got the big get.
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Got the big interview.
"Slow your roll, Robin."
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[Brown] The truth was that there was more
on Robin's mind that day anyway.
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After overcoming breast cancer
years earlier,
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she'd just been told that she had
a rare and serious blood disorder.
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I had... [clicks tongue] Wow.
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I was at the doctor.
No one knew that I was there.
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This was before I did the interview.
It was a day before.
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So, after a long, long exam,
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basically, a doctor said,
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"You're gonna die in a year or two."
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So when I'm sitting across from him
and he's making this statement,
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and it's making national news,
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my mind is racing, "Am I going
to even be around long enough to benefit,
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as a gay woman, what this man just said?"
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These two lines here,
so it makes it easier to draw blood
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and also to administer medication
like the chemo that I'm about to have.
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[Brown] She decided to film her battle
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and bring millions of ABC viewers
on the journey alongside her.
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The fact that I was out of work
for five, six months,
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when you get a call from the very top
of the company where you're working,
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and Bob Iger was one of the first calls
that I received
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and had his full support, did not have to
worry about my job or anything like that.
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And I thought about people who go through
something like this, who have to worry.
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-Going home now!
-[people cheering]
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It's tough enough
you're just fighting for your life.
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[Brown] Hope in the face of adversity.
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A theme right out of a Disney movie,
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and the moral of the story
that Robin Roberts lived.
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Everybody's got something.
Everybody's got something.
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My mother used to say that
to us all the time
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when we were like, "Woe is me. Woe is me."
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She was like,
"Honey, everybody's got something."
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Something that can be seen as a roadblock,
I used as a hurdle.
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Yes, you are. That's what I love
about the morning, you never know.
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[applause]
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I didn't go through all this
just to hang around.
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A minute 30.
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That's why I say I'm a thriver,
not a survivor.
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[male announcer] I would like
to thank Robin Roberts for being here.
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[audience cheering, applause]
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I was at ABC Sports for 13 years.
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When I moved from sports to entertainment,
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you know, they were both similar in that
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the most important thing
about entertainment,
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whether it was ABC or anywhere,
was essentially telling a great story.
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[Brown] After a long rise up the ranks
of ABC and then Disney...
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Bob Iger was promoted to CEO
of the company in 2005.
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If you look at Disney's storytelling,
the quality of optimism exists
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in almost every major story
that's been told by this company.
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One of the artists tasked
with bringing these stories to life
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is Pixar's Jerome Ranft.
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While Pixar is known
for computer animation...
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every day at its headquarters,
Jerome does things the old-fashioned way,
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with his hands.
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It's subconscious and innate.
I just love to make stuff.
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Being a sculptor just fulfilled that need.
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I almost feel like it found me,
like, I had this desire.
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And I took my first sculpting class
when I got into college.
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The first project
was a life-sized self-portrait.
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And as soon as I finished that,
I was like, "This is what I'm gonna do."
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[Brown] Jerome's passion
has brought to life characters
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such as Mike and Sully from Monsters, Inc.
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And even a fish called Nemo.
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I usually get brought on
when they wanna start fleshing out
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what these characters
will look like three-dimensionally.
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And mostly what I do
is pre-visualize 3-D design
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before they spend the time and money
to develop it in a computer.
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This one.
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You're part of that group of people
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trying to solve aesthetic problems
and make aesthetic decisions
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that help make these things
become finished projects.
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I think Waternoose
from Monsters, Incorporated--
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I was very happy with that.
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It was very, very complicated.
Very, very challenging piece.
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I'm never asked
to do the same thing twice.
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I've done three Cars films
and not one of them was like the other.
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This was during the production of Cars 3
early, early, early on.
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At one point McQueen
was gonna try to be in disguise,
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so whatever disguise we did
had to fit over this sort of chassis.
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And this was the disguise.
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This story point changed
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and this whole exercise
of making this sculpture became moot,
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but, at the time,
this was what this was being used for.
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It's not so much pride.
I feel humble, the fact
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that this character's that's owned
by the world now, by you know--
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Millions of children
have grown up with this character.
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At one point, he was a drawing,
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and it went in through my eyes
and out through my hands.
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My brother was working at Disney
when I was in junior high school,
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so I used to-- I remember going
and visiting him at the Disney lot
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and being completely blown away
by these projects.
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He says, "You heard him, code red.
Repeat, we are at code red!"
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[Brown] Jerome's brother, Joe,
was a legendary Disney and Pixar animator,
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who worked for decades
on the company's biggest movies
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including some with his brother.
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Being able to work with him on any project
was, sort of, a dream come true.
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...see it, and he's like, "Ahhh!"
and he starts...
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I didn't realize how special it was
until he had passed.
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[Brown] Joe died
in a car accident in 2005.
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He was just 45 years old.
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When he first passed away
and I walked into this building,
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it was really hard, and I was questioning
whether I could do it.
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He wouldn't have wanted that.
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I have my own career and my own
set of standards that I do this work to,
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and I think that's what my parents
taught us both.
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He influenced me in ways
I'm still sort of figuring out.
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I just miss him. I wish he was here.
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[Brown] Jerome's continued to grow
his family's legacy at Disney...
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but there are fewer and fewer sculptors
working in animation today.
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The role I've played here is changing.
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In the early days,
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the digital modelers they had here
came from a computer background,
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and now they're training artists
to use the tool of the computer.
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And there's incredibly talented
digital modelers
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out there in the world
and especially here.
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I wanna be a better sculptor.
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That's never gonna-- That--
How can I even put it?
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The impulse to be better at what I do
is never ever gonna go away.
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What this company is, more than anything,
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aside from a collection
of many talented people
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and the legacy of Walt Disney,
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is a-- is a great partnership...
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between artists and technologists.
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Jake definitely has his own personality
and you can't help but love him.
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When you get to meet him, and see him,
and he's happy to see you,
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it's a great feeling.
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He's a maintenance droid.
He loves his job. He's very dedicated.
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Jake doesn't talk,
so he's more like R2-D2.
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He uses sounds and colors
and lights to communicate.
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He's got an eye.
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Yellow, he's happy. Blue, he's sad.
Red, he's angry.
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Gray is, "Please, leave me alone."
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[laughs]
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So, how are you feeling
about the design, Tanner?
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[Brown] Ashley Girdich works
in California...
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It's looking pretty good.
Ready for the field.
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Okay. Is there anything
we can do while we're...
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as a member of Walt Disney
Imagineering Research and Development...
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where she takes her knowledge of
technology to create extraordinary ways
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for guests to interact
with the best Disney stories.
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The day that he went live outdoors,
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I was jumping, screaming, laughing.
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Having a character roaming around freely,
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people were blown away.
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Everyone was trying to find
how he was being controlled.
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He was his own character,
without a puppeteer in the background.
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I think the unreasonable ideas are
the ones we get the most excited about.
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Things that we think
are impossible or outlandish,
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we do whatever we can to make that happen.
469
00:28:06,478 --> 00:28:10,732
All of the operations partners I've
talked to, that is a good time for them...
470
00:28:10,815 --> 00:28:14,569
I think one of the biggest challenges
is the reputation this company has.
471
00:28:15,362 --> 00:28:16,780
You've gotta be top of your game.
472
00:28:18,156 --> 00:28:21,451
We don't just go out and build a robot
and say, "Now, what can you do with it?"
473
00:28:21,534 --> 00:28:24,579
I take a character and say,
"Can I make this character come to life?"
474
00:28:24,662 --> 00:28:25,497
[people chattering]
475
00:28:25,580 --> 00:28:26,956
-[Girdich] Come in the front.
-[droid beeps]
476
00:28:27,665 --> 00:28:30,126
When we were play-testing
Jake in the park,
477
00:28:30,210 --> 00:28:33,838
we had a couple of children
who would put their hands on his shoulder
478
00:28:33,922 --> 00:28:35,674
and just walk right alongside him.
479
00:28:37,842 --> 00:28:41,221
They see him as their friend
and immediately take to him.
480
00:28:41,846 --> 00:28:44,182
Kids would come up
and just give him a hug.
481
00:28:44,265 --> 00:28:48,019
Sit, wrap their arms around him.
They would give him a kiss.
482
00:28:48,812 --> 00:28:50,563
-[child] Hold me!
-[Girdich] And you realize the power
483
00:28:50,647 --> 00:28:52,899
that these characters have
to inspire wonder.
484
00:28:52,982 --> 00:28:53,983
Hi.
485
00:28:55,318 --> 00:28:56,611
-[chuckles]
-[droid beeping]
486
00:28:59,239 --> 00:29:00,824
We're constantly updating him.
487
00:29:00,907 --> 00:29:04,411
And right now, what we're trying to do
is refactor some of his code
488
00:29:04,494 --> 00:29:07,372
so that he can work a little bit better
than he has in the past.
489
00:29:08,957 --> 00:29:11,251
More responsive, more reliable.
490
00:29:11,334 --> 00:29:13,420
I want him to last forever.
491
00:29:14,713 --> 00:29:18,133
You have to be resilient to try
and introduce new things into the park
492
00:29:18,216 --> 00:29:20,677
and find ways to solve challenges.
493
00:29:22,846 --> 00:29:27,934
We would love to have our characters speak
what we call natural language processing.
494
00:29:28,018 --> 00:29:30,937
In the technology terms,
it's still very difficult,
495
00:29:31,021 --> 00:29:33,857
and especially
in a theme park environment.
496
00:29:35,191 --> 00:29:36,735
Very interesting challenge.
497
00:29:38,236 --> 00:29:39,404
So, we'll see, we'll see.
498
00:29:39,487 --> 00:29:40,822
[chuckles] We're working on it.
499
00:29:43,158 --> 00:29:46,578
My dream would be
to reintroduce some of our characters
500
00:29:46,661 --> 00:29:49,164
the way they are on the screen,
straight into our parks.
501
00:29:49,956 --> 00:29:52,250
Dreams are incredibly important, I think,
502
00:29:52,334 --> 00:29:55,462
because they can unify us
to go after something
503
00:29:55,545 --> 00:29:58,423
that, alone,
we might have not been able to do.
504
00:29:58,506 --> 00:30:01,551
Living out your dreams
in the way that our guests do in the park
505
00:30:01,634 --> 00:30:03,636
really is a different way of saying,
506
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,474
"I can create something I never thought
could exist in the physical world."
507
00:30:07,557 --> 00:30:09,100
[woman] Ellen,
you're not seeing the droid.
508
00:30:09,184 --> 00:30:11,478
[Girdich] When you think about
what the outcome is of your work,
509
00:30:11,561 --> 00:30:14,606
it's millions of faces smiling.
510
00:30:14,689 --> 00:30:16,107
I love this guy.
511
00:30:16,191 --> 00:30:17,901
It's a great reason
to get up every morning.
512
00:30:26,493 --> 00:30:29,412
Usually when I'm just drawing,
513
00:30:29,496 --> 00:30:31,956
it really comes from a feeling inside.
514
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,167
It kinda just flows out of my hand.
515
00:30:34,250 --> 00:30:36,795
It's an emotion that I'm trying
to put down on paper.
516
00:30:39,464 --> 00:30:43,093
Some of the favorite things
that I like to draw is my nephews.
517
00:30:43,176 --> 00:30:46,513
I have all these great memories with them
and experiences with them.
518
00:30:46,888 --> 00:30:49,557
I hear them laugh,
and I hear how they play with each other.
519
00:30:49,641 --> 00:30:52,185
And that's kind of where my hand goes.
520
00:30:53,353 --> 00:30:57,065
My parents came from Taiwan.
My dad came here first in his early 20s,
521
00:30:57,148 --> 00:30:59,651
on a business trip,
and he fell in love with the country.
522
00:30:59,734 --> 00:31:02,987
And so, he went back to Taiwan,
and then brought me and my mom.
523
00:31:03,988 --> 00:31:06,449
I definitely grew up as a Disney child.
524
00:31:06,533 --> 00:31:09,953
I remember having one Disney book,
and it was in Chinese,
525
00:31:10,036 --> 00:31:13,164
but it was all Disney characters,
and my mom would read that to me.
526
00:31:13,248 --> 00:31:16,001
And so even though
we didn't really recognize the reading,
527
00:31:16,084 --> 00:31:18,336
like the pictures told the story.
528
00:31:18,420 --> 00:31:20,839
And so we always had
a fondness for images.
529
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:28,930
I started working in animation,
and I was actually at a fork in the road
530
00:31:29,014 --> 00:31:31,933
because I was thinking maybe
I would go into teaching
531
00:31:32,017 --> 00:31:33,435
because I love working with kids,
532
00:31:33,518 --> 00:31:36,354
and I thought it would be great
to bring art into education.
533
00:31:36,438 --> 00:31:39,065
But as I was preparing for school,
534
00:31:39,149 --> 00:31:42,527
I also just applied all over,
Disney included.
535
00:31:42,610 --> 00:31:47,365
And I remember I got accepted
to all the schools I applied for,
536
00:31:47,449 --> 00:31:51,327
but then I got a call from Disney,
and it was just no question.
537
00:31:51,411 --> 00:31:54,456
Like, I was-- I wanted to work at Disney.
538
00:31:54,873 --> 00:31:57,542
As a senior illustration manager here,
539
00:31:57,625 --> 00:32:02,297
I work with a team of artists
and provide them art direction,
540
00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:04,549
make sure everything's in line.
541
00:32:04,632 --> 00:32:06,843
We take the art direction of the film,
542
00:32:06,926 --> 00:32:12,182
and we create a style of our own
for the books.
543
00:32:12,265 --> 00:32:15,894
The first picture book
that I worked on here was Sofia the First.
544
00:32:15,977 --> 00:32:18,521
I really like this book
because I got to add,
545
00:32:18,605 --> 00:32:22,734
like, little flourish designs throughout
the book to wrap around the text.
546
00:32:22,817 --> 00:32:26,529
And it was really fun to be able
to add the little hearts on the I's.
547
00:32:26,613 --> 00:32:28,740
And it felt more personal.
548
00:32:28,823 --> 00:32:31,659
It's something that I think,
as a child, I would have done too.
549
00:32:34,412 --> 00:32:38,458
I work with the most creative people
that I know.
550
00:32:38,541 --> 00:32:41,169
So, we have the Frozen middle grade cover.
551
00:32:41,252 --> 00:32:45,173
And then, Winnie and I have been talking
about special effects.
552
00:32:46,341 --> 00:32:47,801
When a film is in production,
553
00:32:47,884 --> 00:32:50,887
we start illustrating the books
that go along with the films.
554
00:32:51,471 --> 00:32:55,725
We're thinking, like, a burgundy color
that will match Anna's lining.
555
00:32:55,809 --> 00:33:00,605
So, it's got a very Frozen 2 color,
so all the palettes are cohesive.
556
00:33:00,689 --> 00:33:02,857
There's books that retell the film,
557
00:33:02,941 --> 00:33:05,527
and then there's also books
that are extension stories.
558
00:33:05,610 --> 00:33:09,072
And as a manager,
I guide the team of artists
559
00:33:09,155 --> 00:33:12,575
so that they can illustrate a book
that looks cohesive,
560
00:33:12,659 --> 00:33:14,494
even though
there are multiple hands on it.
561
00:33:14,577 --> 00:33:17,956
So, this is for the Toy Story 4
extension book. And...
562
00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:21,167
One of the things that I really like
working on is extension stories
563
00:33:21,251 --> 00:33:24,629
because you get to extend
the life of these characters
564
00:33:24,713 --> 00:33:27,132
that you fall in love with
when you watch the movie.
565
00:33:28,008 --> 00:33:30,635
Especially, like, when I was younger,
and I would watch this film,
566
00:33:30,719 --> 00:33:33,680
and I would always wonder,
"Oh, what happens after they get married?"
567
00:33:33,763 --> 00:33:36,016
Or "What happens
after this adventure's over?"
568
00:33:36,641 --> 00:33:41,187
We get this foundation to work with,
but we get to take in so many directions.
569
00:33:41,271 --> 00:33:42,522
Yeah, the book is really fun.
570
00:33:42,605 --> 00:33:47,027
And it takes place in a carnival setting,
so it's actually really appropriate.
571
00:33:47,110 --> 00:33:48,653
I think these extension stories
572
00:33:48,737 --> 00:33:52,198
develop this new type of relationship
I have with the characters.
573
00:33:52,282 --> 00:33:56,161
You experience them even in a closer way
574
00:33:56,244 --> 00:33:59,122
because we get to tell,
like, what happens next.
575
00:33:59,205 --> 00:34:02,834
I'm helping Jeff with the Frozen 2 covers.
576
00:34:02,917 --> 00:34:08,381
One of my favorite parts of the job is
we get to collaborate with the filmmakers.
577
00:34:09,549 --> 00:34:12,135
They're the ones that create
this world and these people.
578
00:34:12,218 --> 00:34:17,599
And to have this firsthand explanation
of all this knowledge
579
00:34:17,682 --> 00:34:21,436
is what helps us
make our books so wonderful.
580
00:34:21,519 --> 00:34:25,899
And we had decided on a cool silver ink,
so it'll be shimmery.
581
00:34:25,982 --> 00:34:27,734
And so it will stand out from the page.
582
00:34:27,817 --> 00:34:31,196
You have everything working
in a more analogous color scheme,
583
00:34:31,279 --> 00:34:33,323
which is a more limited scheme,
584
00:34:33,406 --> 00:34:36,034
but it's much more harmonious
to the environment.
585
00:34:36,117 --> 00:34:39,120
You immediately recognize them
as Anna and Elsa.
586
00:34:39,204 --> 00:34:42,665
I think it channels the Frozen aesthetic
quite a bit.
587
00:34:45,377 --> 00:34:49,589
So another one of my favorite books
was Three Little Words.
588
00:34:49,673 --> 00:34:54,719
I really love the message of this book,
and it's to just keep swimming.
589
00:34:54,803 --> 00:34:57,639
I think it's a great, positive message
for little kids,
590
00:34:57,722 --> 00:35:00,517
and it's also something
that I tell myself every day.
591
00:35:01,893 --> 00:35:04,979
What I love about art is
it forces me to find my voice.
592
00:35:05,563 --> 00:35:08,441
It allows me a way to express myself.
593
00:35:08,525 --> 00:35:10,527
And I've learned to love myself
594
00:35:10,610 --> 00:35:14,447
because I learned that everyone
expresses themselves differently.
595
00:35:17,367 --> 00:35:19,577
[Brown] For the artists, and the audience,
596
00:35:20,453 --> 00:35:23,623
Disney creations are ways to connect
with the magic of stories.
597
00:35:25,750 --> 00:35:27,794
And for the man who oversees it all,
598
00:35:28,461 --> 00:35:31,297
there's nothing more satisfying
than seeing the biggest,
599
00:35:31,381 --> 00:35:35,719
most ambitious creations come to life
in almost unfathomable ways.
600
00:35:37,429 --> 00:35:41,433
[Iger] When you can not only experience
the story but live with the story...
601
00:35:42,767 --> 00:35:45,603
that's a very, very powerful experience
to have.
602
00:35:53,945 --> 00:35:57,449
And it immediately thrilled visitors
when it opened the summer of 2019
603
00:35:57,532 --> 00:36:00,577
at both Disneyland and Disney World.
604
00:36:01,828 --> 00:36:03,329
[Baker]
Grand openings are always hard for me
605
00:36:03,413 --> 00:36:07,417
because you're giving a huge piece of your
heart to the world for the first time.
606
00:36:08,293 --> 00:36:12,464
It's hard to turn it over that first time
and to see how the world's gonna react
607
00:36:12,547 --> 00:36:14,174
because you don't know till they come in.
608
00:36:16,259 --> 00:36:20,221
The fans of Star Wars have been
building Star Wars for 45 years now.
609
00:36:21,639 --> 00:36:24,184
There's people that live and breathe
Star Wars every day,
610
00:36:24,267 --> 00:36:26,186
and this land that we've built
611
00:36:26,269 --> 00:36:30,148
now gives them a place
to live their Star Wars story.
612
00:36:32,525 --> 00:36:36,571
I feel we owe them, to give them the best
possible experience they can have.
613
00:36:36,654 --> 00:36:39,574
'Cause this is something that, you know,
614
00:36:39,657 --> 00:36:41,951
they've waited their entire lives
to see this.
615
00:36:44,245 --> 00:36:46,539
[Brown] And so,
as Disney planned Galaxy's Edge,
616
00:36:46,623 --> 00:36:48,833
Eric Baker traveled around the world...
617
00:36:50,085 --> 00:36:51,378
hunting and collecting props
618
00:36:51,461 --> 00:36:54,631
that would convince the most
knowledgeable Star Wars fanatics...
619
00:36:56,216 --> 00:36:59,344
that every detail in the park
was just right.
620
00:37:03,264 --> 00:37:06,309
[Baker] They're getting the thrill
of a totally immersive world
621
00:37:06,393 --> 00:37:08,436
that they're experiencing
for the first time.
622
00:37:08,978 --> 00:37:12,357
This is the first time that we're really
putting it in front of guests' faces.
623
00:37:13,775 --> 00:37:16,277
I mean, to be able to go 360
around something
624
00:37:16,361 --> 00:37:19,698
and really look at it and study it,
"There's that and there's that."
625
00:37:19,781 --> 00:37:23,702
And seeing all these pieces they've seen
in the films for years and years.
626
00:37:24,494 --> 00:37:27,914
I mean, there's nothing like seeing
the reaction on the guest's face
627
00:37:27,997 --> 00:37:30,875
the very first time that they walk
into anything that we've done.
628
00:37:30,959 --> 00:37:36,631
It makes every minute of blood, sweat
and tears we put into this worth it.
629
00:37:38,550 --> 00:37:40,135
Um... Sorry.
630
00:37:40,218 --> 00:37:42,929
[chuckles] I get choked up.
I'm sorry. I'm emotional.
631
00:37:47,058 --> 00:37:48,810
I mean, just in this little shop alone,
632
00:37:48,893 --> 00:37:53,148
um, there's over 63 cages
hanging from the ceiling.
633
00:37:53,231 --> 00:37:55,358
And all these cages
are made out of different things.
634
00:37:55,442 --> 00:37:59,529
I mean, some of them, actually, are made
out of studio lights from film sets.
635
00:38:00,196 --> 00:38:02,157
It's an incredible, beautiful mess.
636
00:38:03,533 --> 00:38:06,244
I grew up in a very small town
in North Georgia.
637
00:38:06,703 --> 00:38:09,998
We didn't even have a theater. You had
to go to the next town to go to a movie,
638
00:38:10,081 --> 00:38:12,042
so if you went to a movie,
it was a special event.
639
00:38:12,125 --> 00:38:15,170
I didn't see Star Wars till it had been
in the theater for about a year.
640
00:38:15,253 --> 00:38:18,214
I finally got my parents to take me,
and it had changed my life.
641
00:38:18,298 --> 00:38:19,799
I didn't know what I wanted to do,
642
00:38:19,883 --> 00:38:22,093
but I knew I wanted to be
in the entertainment industry.
643
00:38:25,722 --> 00:38:27,599
Funny enough, I was at a party one night,
644
00:38:27,682 --> 00:38:31,770
and there was a prop master
from a TV show who showed up at the party
645
00:38:31,853 --> 00:38:34,230
and saw some of the stuff
that I had built around my house.
646
00:38:34,314 --> 00:38:38,109
And asked me if I was interested
in being a prop fabricator.
647
00:38:39,319 --> 00:38:41,279
Going from film into the real world
was building stuff
648
00:38:41,363 --> 00:38:44,616
that's gonna last
for the guests to enjoy every day.
649
00:38:44,699 --> 00:38:47,535
When you build it for a film set, it's
something that has to last one or two days
650
00:38:47,619 --> 00:38:48,912
and then it gets thrown out.
651
00:38:49,537 --> 00:38:52,749
When we were in England, we would go
to aircraft scrapyards and stuff
652
00:38:52,832 --> 00:38:54,959
because we were actually shopping
for aircraft parts
653
00:38:55,043 --> 00:38:57,003
to match stuff that was used in the films.
654
00:38:57,087 --> 00:38:59,756
And suddenly, there's a 747
sitting in a cow pasture
655
00:38:59,839 --> 00:39:01,383
that they're tearing the parts off of.
656
00:39:01,466 --> 00:39:05,178
And you would go in and say,
"I'll take all 57 miles of cable
657
00:39:05,261 --> 00:39:08,556
and that seat and that seat
and that control panel." [chuckles]
658
00:39:10,892 --> 00:39:12,394
When a stormtrooper takes off his helmet,
659
00:39:12,477 --> 00:39:15,730
does he hang it on a coat rack,
or does he have a stand he puts it on?
660
00:39:15,814 --> 00:39:18,483
Part of the fun for us was coming up
with these things
661
00:39:18,566 --> 00:39:20,151
that hadn't been seen on camera,
662
00:39:20,985 --> 00:39:24,072
and getting to add to this lore
that we've loved our whole lives.
663
00:39:25,573 --> 00:39:28,076
My grandson thinks I'm famous now.
[laughs]
664
00:39:28,451 --> 00:39:32,789
He's like, "You're famous."
I'm like, "No, I'm not. Not really.
665
00:39:32,872 --> 00:39:34,708
I just make this stuff, you know."
666
00:39:37,502 --> 00:39:40,463
I told my wife the bucket list
is checked off now,
667
00:39:40,547 --> 00:39:41,881
to work on Star Wars. [chuckles]
668
00:39:41,965 --> 00:39:43,800
I'm getting chills talking about it.
669
00:39:52,517 --> 00:39:54,978
[Iger] If Walt could see
the company today,
670
00:39:55,687 --> 00:39:59,566
I believe that
he would be extremely proud of,
671
00:39:59,649 --> 00:40:03,319
not only the fact
that his legacy is still alive
672
00:40:03,403 --> 00:40:06,906
and that the values that he infused
in his stories still exist,
673
00:40:07,782 --> 00:40:10,910
but that we've, in many respects,
followed his footsteps,
674
00:40:10,994 --> 00:40:14,914
which is to keep taking risks and chances
and exploring new ground.
675
00:40:17,542 --> 00:40:19,210
[Brown] The company covered new ground
676
00:40:19,294 --> 00:40:22,839
when Disney's Animal Kingdom
opened in Orlando in 1998.
677
00:40:24,758 --> 00:40:27,260
Today, the park is thriving
as much as ever...
678
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:32,015
thanks to a special brand of TLC
behind the scenes.
679
00:40:33,892 --> 00:40:36,561
[Mylniczenko]
Peri is a prehensile-tailed porcupine.
680
00:40:36,644 --> 00:40:40,690
She's been trained to allow us
to do ultrasounds on her.
681
00:40:41,483 --> 00:40:46,654
Giving us an opportunity to track
her pregnancy from conception until birth.
682
00:40:47,822 --> 00:40:50,742
That way we could tell that she
was healthy, that the baby was healthy.
683
00:40:53,828 --> 00:40:56,831
So, when there's a fetus,
it makes it a lot easier to see.
684
00:40:56,915 --> 00:41:00,627
And right now, we're just been able
to see her urinary bladder.
685
00:41:00,710 --> 00:41:03,088
And then you can see a hint
of her uterus popping in.
686
00:41:03,171 --> 00:41:04,839
Now we're just doing checkups on her,
687
00:41:04,923 --> 00:41:08,551
but we're also going to be preparing
for a second pregnancy.
688
00:41:17,227 --> 00:41:19,437
Ever since I've been a small child,
689
00:41:19,521 --> 00:41:22,857
I've just tried to help animals
and help heal them.
690
00:41:22,941 --> 00:41:26,611
And so that's just been
an innate part of my growing up.
691
00:41:31,408 --> 00:41:32,742
So far...
692
00:41:34,744 --> 00:41:35,787
There we go.
693
00:41:38,164 --> 00:41:40,959
I came here for a visit
during a vet conference,
694
00:41:41,042 --> 00:41:43,712
and I was just impressed.
695
00:41:43,795 --> 00:41:45,338
I loved the facilities.
696
00:41:45,422 --> 00:41:49,551
I loved the opportunity
to care for the animals as well.
697
00:41:49,634 --> 00:41:54,681
As I got to know all of the veterinarians,
I just thought it was an amazing team.
698
00:41:55,557 --> 00:41:59,644
And because of all of that,
I was really enticed to come here.
699
00:42:01,229 --> 00:42:03,231
I think that's what I love most.
700
00:42:03,314 --> 00:42:07,694
We have a diversity of animals,
both terrestrial and aquatic.
701
00:42:07,777 --> 00:42:09,362
It allows people to really get close.
702
00:42:09,446 --> 00:42:12,282
It allows people
to understand the animals,
703
00:42:12,365 --> 00:42:16,494
and it gives them an opportunity
to care and bond with those animals.
704
00:42:17,537 --> 00:42:20,665
We have folks that come up here regularly
705
00:42:20,749 --> 00:42:24,127
that... know all of the different animals.
706
00:42:24,210 --> 00:42:29,049
Like the gorillas. There are some people
that know all of the gorillas by name.
707
00:42:29,507 --> 00:42:31,509
And the guests will just visit them,
708
00:42:31,593 --> 00:42:34,429
which is a unique opportunity.
709
00:42:36,389 --> 00:42:39,809
We do routine examinations
on many of our animals.
710
00:42:39,893 --> 00:42:42,520
And today we did an examination
on a southern stingray.
711
00:42:43,229 --> 00:42:46,024
-...at 950, so we got a good mark on her.
-Perfect.
712
00:42:46,107 --> 00:42:49,986
This is a female that's been with us.
Her name is Dexy.
713
00:42:52,405 --> 00:42:54,199
pH is 8.6.
714
00:42:54,783 --> 00:42:57,494
So, right now we're measuring
the oxygen level
715
00:42:57,577 --> 00:43:01,373
of the... area that she's in.
716
00:43:01,456 --> 00:43:03,583
Today she's getting her routine exam.
717
00:43:03,667 --> 00:43:06,211
And so, because of that,
we need to do a little bit more.
718
00:43:06,294 --> 00:43:08,338
Let's go ahead and look at her gills.
719
00:43:11,424 --> 00:43:15,095
So, her cardiac contractions are great.
Her rhythm and rate are great.
720
00:43:15,178 --> 00:43:16,930
So, I have no concerns right now.
721
00:43:17,013 --> 00:43:18,973
We took an ultrasound as well,
722
00:43:19,057 --> 00:43:22,268
which gives me an excellent view
of all of her organs
723
00:43:22,352 --> 00:43:25,480
so I can determine health of her,
you know, from the inside.
724
00:43:25,563 --> 00:43:27,440
Yeah, it feels like it's actually healed.
725
00:43:27,899 --> 00:43:31,986
A typical day can mean anything
from doing a pregnancy exam on a scorpion,
726
00:43:32,445 --> 00:43:36,408
to a bird gets an injury
in one of our aviaries.
727
00:43:37,867 --> 00:43:39,703
You do have to get quite creative.
728
00:43:40,412 --> 00:43:42,455
Every day we have to figure out
729
00:43:42,539 --> 00:43:46,793
how to put a bandage on an animal
that wouldn't normally have a bandage.
730
00:43:46,876 --> 00:43:49,713
So, how would you put a bandage on a fish?
731
00:43:49,796 --> 00:43:53,550
Or a very tiny bird that has a broken leg?
How do you fix that broken leg?
732
00:43:53,633 --> 00:43:57,971
And so you come up with toothpicks
and tape, sometimes, to make splints.
733
00:44:01,224 --> 00:44:04,978
And then the conservation piece.
Disney really cares about conservation.
734
00:44:05,645 --> 00:44:09,733
All of us have an opportunity to work
with conservation that Disney supports.
735
00:44:10,358 --> 00:44:13,862
I'm particularly interested
in working with gorillas
736
00:44:13,945 --> 00:44:18,491
in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
with a program called GRACE.
737
00:44:18,575 --> 00:44:22,495
And that's the Gorilla Rehabilitation
and Conservation Education Center
738
00:44:22,579 --> 00:44:25,498
that cares for orphaned gorillas.
739
00:44:26,166 --> 00:44:30,211
We can then have those gorillas
rehabilitated,
740
00:44:30,295 --> 00:44:33,173
and then placed
into a family group of gorillas,
741
00:44:33,256 --> 00:44:34,591
with the ultimate goal
742
00:44:34,674 --> 00:44:37,052
of reintroducing them
to a safe environment.
743
00:44:38,887 --> 00:44:40,472
-[Mylniczenko] What do you think?
-[keeper] Probably.
744
00:44:40,555 --> 00:44:43,183
-[Mylniczenko] Okay.
-[keeper] I could leave it right there.
745
00:44:43,266 --> 00:44:45,810
-Does that work?
-[Mylniczenko] That can work.
746
00:44:45,894 --> 00:44:50,148
All of our animals have bitey parts
and scratchy parts. [chuckles]
747
00:44:50,231 --> 00:44:55,153
Yeah, there are times when you just need
to make sure you understand the animal.
748
00:44:55,236 --> 00:44:58,281
But we also have keeper staff
that really know the animals well
749
00:44:58,365 --> 00:45:00,867
and can help us with safety issues.
750
00:45:00,950 --> 00:45:02,327
Oh, yeah.
751
00:45:04,454 --> 00:45:05,455
Good job.
752
00:45:05,538 --> 00:45:06,831
They choose. Right?
753
00:45:06,915 --> 00:45:09,793
They can make the decisions
to come and participate if their--
754
00:45:09,876 --> 00:45:12,921
with their medical care
or they can choose to go.
755
00:45:13,963 --> 00:45:14,964
Hey, girl.
756
00:45:15,965 --> 00:45:17,884
-[Mylniczenko] What a good job.
-[keeper] Good girl. That's very nice.
757
00:45:17,967 --> 00:45:22,931
Sometimes what we do is really amazing.
We get to see animals through birth.
758
00:45:23,014 --> 00:45:25,725
-[Mylniczenko] What a good girl.
-[keeper] Good girl. Good girl.
759
00:45:28,687 --> 00:45:30,522
She's doing such a good job.
760
00:45:30,605 --> 00:45:35,402
We get to see them overcome issues,
and those are amazing things.
761
00:45:36,695 --> 00:45:39,572
Being a veterinarian is probably one of,
762
00:45:39,656 --> 00:45:41,574
in my opinion, [chuckles]
763
00:45:41,658 --> 00:45:43,910
the most rewarding jobs you can have.
764
00:45:43,993 --> 00:45:47,372
Sweetie. It's just for you. I know.
It's just for you. Yummies.
765
00:45:47,455 --> 00:45:49,457
[Iger] We're all, in many ways, in the--
766
00:45:49,541 --> 00:45:52,210
not only in the same business
but doing the same thing,
767
00:45:52,293 --> 00:45:54,587
which is trying to reach people
all over the world
768
00:45:54,671 --> 00:45:57,257
in very compelling ways,
trying to touch people's hearts.
769
00:46:00,635 --> 00:46:02,262
[Brown] In Madrid, Spain,
770
00:46:02,345 --> 00:46:05,098
they'll try to reach people's hearts today
with two performances
771
00:46:05,181 --> 00:46:08,351
of the widely-beloved stage version
of The Lion King...
772
00:46:09,310 --> 00:46:11,271
[trills tongue]
773
00:46:11,354 --> 00:46:14,232
propelled by the gifts
of some amazing performers.
774
00:46:14,315 --> 00:46:19,112
Every start of the show gives me
a different vibe, a different energy.
775
00:46:19,195 --> 00:46:21,865
-Testing, testing, testing, testing.
-All good.
776
00:46:21,948 --> 00:46:24,826
That first call means a lot
777
00:46:24,909 --> 00:46:28,329
'cause you find
the public members screaming.
778
00:46:28,413 --> 00:46:31,624
[audience cheering, applause]
779
00:46:32,208 --> 00:46:36,254
But the minute you start that call,
it's like total silencio. And then, boom.
780
00:46:36,338 --> 00:46:37,839
[applauding continues]
781
00:46:37,922 --> 00:46:39,466
I have their eyes on me.
782
00:46:42,552 --> 00:46:48,558
[singing in Zulu]
783
00:46:48,641 --> 00:46:52,645
[background singers singing in Zulu]
784
00:46:54,773 --> 00:46:56,733
I still get chills when I'm...
[chuckling] singing.
785
00:46:58,276 --> 00:46:59,986
Especially the first song.
786
00:47:00,070 --> 00:47:03,239
I just don't get over with
that first song, "The Circle of Life."
787
00:47:03,323 --> 00:47:05,742
[continues singing in Zulu]
788
00:47:06,284 --> 00:47:10,455
I look at individuals amongst the public.
789
00:47:10,538 --> 00:47:14,584
And the connection I feel with their eyes,
even better when they are crying.
790
00:47:14,668 --> 00:47:15,794
I'm like, "Oof."
791
00:47:15,877 --> 00:47:16,878
[chuckles]
792
00:47:16,961 --> 00:47:17,962
"I feel you."
793
00:47:19,047 --> 00:47:22,050
I'm really proud.
It's a very special role.
794
00:47:22,133 --> 00:47:25,595
I feel honored that I was trusted.
795
00:47:27,681 --> 00:47:31,059
[Brown] Zama's journey to Madrid
began years ago in South Africa...
796
00:47:33,019 --> 00:47:36,231
where she grew up dreaming
bigger and bigger with every song.
797
00:47:37,357 --> 00:47:40,193
[Magudulela] I think I was about five.
I actually composed a song.
798
00:47:40,276 --> 00:47:41,945
That's how much I knew
that I loved singing.
799
00:47:42,028 --> 00:47:45,657
And then, of course, at nine years, that's
when I'm like, "I think I love singing."
800
00:47:45,740 --> 00:47:49,411
'Cause I ended up copying my friend
who sang better than me at that point.
801
00:47:49,494 --> 00:47:53,790
She can sing, I can try and sing too.
I'm going to be competitive.
802
00:47:53,873 --> 00:47:56,751
I just sang and sang until I upstaged her.
803
00:47:56,835 --> 00:47:58,253
[laughs]
804
00:47:59,921 --> 00:48:03,591
[Brown] Zama eventually traveled to London
to support her friend at a casting call.
805
00:48:05,593 --> 00:48:08,638
She caught the eye of the director,
who asked if she could sing.
806
00:48:09,597 --> 00:48:12,517
[Magudulela] My first audition
was not good.
807
00:48:13,685 --> 00:48:17,731
At that point I just finished
my first musical in South Africa.
808
00:48:18,898 --> 00:48:22,318
There was a long queue, and I asked
people, "Okay, what is this queue for?"
809
00:48:22,402 --> 00:48:24,946
"It's, like, auditions, Lion King."
I'm like, "What is that?"
810
00:48:27,574 --> 00:48:31,536
I went to the movie store,
bought myself that DVD.
811
00:48:34,039 --> 00:48:38,084
I thought, "If I do The Lion King,
am I gonna be a cartoon?" [chuckles]
812
00:48:38,460 --> 00:48:41,254
[Brown] Four days later,
she was offered the part of Rafiki...
813
00:48:42,714 --> 00:48:45,258
despite having
no acting experience at all.
814
00:48:45,717 --> 00:48:49,971
I do have moments
where I'm actually meditating.
815
00:48:50,180 --> 00:48:51,014
[chuckles]
816
00:48:51,097 --> 00:48:52,307
I close my eyes.
817
00:48:52,390 --> 00:48:53,600
[chuckles]
818
00:48:53,683 --> 00:48:55,560
-Clearing the mind.
-You know?
819
00:48:56,102 --> 00:48:58,772
I'm glad and grateful
that I've been part of this journey.
820
00:48:59,606 --> 00:49:00,940
Soy listo!
821
00:49:01,024 --> 00:49:05,445
Being around this show teaches me
every day to be a better person.
822
00:49:05,528 --> 00:49:11,910
[singing in Zulu]
823
00:49:11,993 --> 00:49:14,329
I mean, all the songs for me are special.
824
00:49:14,412 --> 00:49:16,289
They tell a certain story.
825
00:49:16,373 --> 00:49:21,920
And... for me, "The Circle of Life,"
I just connect with it.
826
00:49:22,003 --> 00:49:24,506
♪ It's the circle of life ♪
827
00:49:24,589 --> 00:49:26,841
It's like, "Wow,
we're so connected on this earth."
828
00:49:28,510 --> 00:49:30,261
We need each other.
829
00:49:32,889 --> 00:49:35,100
Ooh... [sighs]
It's just too much. It's deep.
830
00:49:35,183 --> 00:49:36,142
[chuckles]
831
00:49:36,226 --> 00:49:39,020
[singing in Spanish]
832
00:49:39,104 --> 00:49:43,274
I just connect with it
as when I came on this earth.
833
00:49:43,358 --> 00:49:46,444
How my family was happy.
834
00:49:46,528 --> 00:49:48,822
And what dramas or what problems
we've been through.
835
00:49:48,905 --> 00:49:51,825
[continues singing in Spanish]
836
00:49:53,326 --> 00:49:54,869
My parents are no longer there.
837
00:49:56,871 --> 00:50:01,543
I always feel they are still with me
when I'm delivering this song.
838
00:50:02,419 --> 00:50:04,212
Because, really,
when I talk to that Mufasa,
839
00:50:04,295 --> 00:50:07,298
I'm not talking to Mufasa,
I'm talking to my parents.
840
00:50:08,967 --> 00:50:11,136
That's why I'm grateful
to be part of this journey
841
00:50:11,219 --> 00:50:13,888
because, really,
I've changed so many people's lives.
842
00:50:13,972 --> 00:50:17,475
You know, knowing that there could be
people who are coming here sad.
843
00:50:20,020 --> 00:50:21,896
When we perform, then they leave happy.
844
00:50:22,313 --> 00:50:26,192
It's an amazing reaction.
I feel like we're giving them a gift.
845
00:50:26,693 --> 00:50:30,321
It just makes me [chuckles] feel blessed.
846
00:50:44,836 --> 00:50:47,714
[Iger] The Walt Disney Company
is almost a hundred years old.
847
00:50:49,132 --> 00:50:52,052
And it's pretty extraordinary
when you think about a company
848
00:50:52,135 --> 00:50:54,429
that's been around as long as ours
849
00:50:54,512 --> 00:50:58,224
that is still extremely relevant
in the world, that, in many respects,
850
00:50:58,308 --> 00:51:01,311
doesn't look anything like the world
that existed back in 1923
851
00:51:01,394 --> 00:51:04,481
when Walt and his brother Roy
started the company.
852
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,987
[Brown] Another company that's withstood
the test of time is Marvel,
853
00:51:11,738 --> 00:51:15,450
which Bob Iger added
to Disney's portfolio in 2009.
854
00:51:19,579 --> 00:51:23,333
Just like Bob Iger,
Ryan Meinerding works in Los Angeles.
855
00:51:24,709 --> 00:51:26,378
He got his start on Iron Man...
856
00:51:27,545 --> 00:51:31,299
and has since risen to the head
of Visual Development at Marvel Studios.
857
00:51:33,385 --> 00:51:35,095
Ryan creates the first visuals
858
00:51:35,178 --> 00:51:37,889
that ultimately inspire
the characters' costumes.
859
00:51:39,265 --> 00:51:44,020
One of the reasons I love movies is going
on that journey the hero's going on
860
00:51:44,104 --> 00:51:46,523
and trying to create the visual
for that character
861
00:51:46,606 --> 00:51:49,025
that's going to lock in
the audience's empathy
862
00:51:49,109 --> 00:51:51,361
and take them forward
through the journey of the film
863
00:51:51,444 --> 00:51:54,364
is something that I, you know,
I'm always going to pick the heroes.
864
00:51:56,866 --> 00:52:00,662
Marvel superheroes are powerful, not only
because they literally have powers
865
00:52:00,745 --> 00:52:02,706
but also because they have lots of flaws.
866
00:52:03,206 --> 00:52:06,835
Spider-Man and Peter Parker are relatable
because he has real-world problems.
867
00:52:06,918 --> 00:52:09,254
He, you know,
has problems with girlfriends.
868
00:52:09,337 --> 00:52:12,215
He has problems with his Aunt May.
He has problems in school.
869
00:52:13,591 --> 00:52:16,761
I pitched the idea of having
Spider-Man's eyes be emotive.
870
00:52:17,262 --> 00:52:19,472
They would move
and essentially be able to understand
871
00:52:19,556 --> 00:52:22,225
what Peter is thinking
under the suit through his eyes.
872
00:52:22,308 --> 00:52:24,853
And that was one of the things
that I'm most proud about,
873
00:52:24,936 --> 00:52:26,730
having solved here at Marvel.
874
00:52:27,856 --> 00:52:29,858
That's one of the best parts
of working on this job too
875
00:52:29,941 --> 00:52:32,193
is just working from those great icons.
876
00:52:32,527 --> 00:52:36,990
I was trying to think of different ways
for Thanos to attack Doctor Strange.
877
00:52:37,073 --> 00:52:40,452
I was thinking,
maybe he could destroy planets or...
878
00:52:40,535 --> 00:52:43,955
A lot of us that work here in the Visual
Development department are fans.
879
00:52:44,372 --> 00:52:47,250
And just make it come through
like portals or comets or whatever.
880
00:52:47,334 --> 00:52:48,835
Just raining down on Doctor Strange.
881
00:52:48,918 --> 00:52:51,629
[Meinerding] A lot of what the characters
are about are sort of ingrained in us.
882
00:52:51,713 --> 00:52:55,133
Being passionate about finding
new ways of representing them
883
00:52:55,216 --> 00:52:57,969
-in a storytelling context...
-I think they're really great.
884
00:52:58,053 --> 00:52:59,721
...just keeps driving me forward.
885
00:53:00,263 --> 00:53:02,223
If I could talk to
the 13-year-old version of myself
886
00:53:02,307 --> 00:53:06,394
and tell him what I'm working on today,
I don't think that he would believe me.
887
00:53:07,103 --> 00:53:10,607
Having worked on a character
like Captain America or Iron Man...
888
00:53:11,608 --> 00:53:12,692
people love them.
889
00:53:12,776 --> 00:53:15,904
And if you do justice by that character,
890
00:53:15,987 --> 00:53:18,782
people will continue to love them,
and I'm excited by that.
891
00:53:19,407 --> 00:53:21,326
I loved these characters
from when I was very young.
892
00:53:21,409 --> 00:53:25,246
I started buying comics,
probably when I was ten or 11.
893
00:53:26,581 --> 00:53:30,335
And then all through the '90s, I was
reading comics when I was a teenager.
894
00:53:30,418 --> 00:53:33,254
So, I started pretty, pretty young
with the characters
895
00:53:33,338 --> 00:53:37,008
and I've, sort of, been fortunate enough
to end up with a job
896
00:53:37,092 --> 00:53:41,721
that really allows me
to play into my fanboy tendencies.
897
00:53:42,681 --> 00:53:46,393
It used to be that a person like me
would be doing pencil drawings
898
00:53:46,476 --> 00:53:48,687
that would need to be approved
before something got made.
899
00:53:48,770 --> 00:53:50,772
[Stegon] The final pose
that we're interested in,
900
00:53:50,855 --> 00:53:54,651
some of the initial pose wasn't dy--
quite dynamic enough.
901
00:53:54,734 --> 00:53:57,487
He feels too stiff.
Maybe he doesn't feel menacing enough.
902
00:53:57,570 --> 00:54:01,157
Because he's a very powerful character,
so he needs to feel powerful.
903
00:54:01,700 --> 00:54:05,370
It's using computers
and being able to get high resolution,
904
00:54:05,453 --> 00:54:06,705
more finished images.
905
00:54:06,788 --> 00:54:08,415
We're able to actually
accomplish something
906
00:54:08,498 --> 00:54:12,002
that's as close
to the finished thing as possible.
907
00:54:12,335 --> 00:54:15,505
All together, it probably took
about 30 or 40 versions.
908
00:54:15,588 --> 00:54:17,799
And the main purpose of that
was to, essentially,
909
00:54:17,882 --> 00:54:21,011
put it into a 3-D maquette,
that was gonna be 3-D printed,
910
00:54:21,094 --> 00:54:24,055
as a final sign-off
for the directors and the producers
911
00:54:24,139 --> 00:54:26,808
to see the character,
and you know, be able to walk around it.
912
00:54:27,392 --> 00:54:32,480
We're working on around three films a year
and adding more projects to that as we go.
913
00:54:33,273 --> 00:54:35,191
Finding ways of accomplishing that,
914
00:54:35,275 --> 00:54:38,445
both from an artistic standpoint
of actually solving problems,
915
00:54:38,528 --> 00:54:39,738
design problems, artistically,
916
00:54:39,821 --> 00:54:45,452
also working with my team to art direct
and help them solve problems as well.
917
00:54:45,535 --> 00:54:48,455
And working with visual effects
and the costume departments
918
00:54:48,538 --> 00:54:54,127
to really take our designs and help them
get resolved in a really amazing way
919
00:54:54,210 --> 00:54:57,547
is enough to keep me busy
through the whole week
920
00:54:57,630 --> 00:54:59,174
and into the weekends and-- [chuckles]
921
00:55:00,300 --> 00:55:04,179
As an artist, there's also just a sense of
wanting to do better than the last time.
922
00:55:05,263 --> 00:55:07,015
Every artist wants to keep growing.
923
00:55:08,308 --> 00:55:11,186
We're always having new chances
to reinterpret the characters.
924
00:55:11,269 --> 00:55:12,896
We're having new places for them to go
925
00:55:12,979 --> 00:55:15,565
with the stories the filmmakers
are coming up with.
926
00:55:15,648 --> 00:55:19,361
And we're really getting the chance
to push ourselves.
927
00:55:19,861 --> 00:55:23,782
This is the Captain America hero costume
from Captain America: The First Avenger.
928
00:55:23,865 --> 00:55:26,868
It's, sort of,
his culmination in that film
929
00:55:26,951 --> 00:55:30,663
for blending,
being a symbol and being a soldier.
930
00:55:31,414 --> 00:55:35,418
It was also the first time I was trying
to incorporate the stripes as straps,
931
00:55:35,502 --> 00:55:38,296
turning them in, pulling them off of it,
just being on the costume.
932
00:55:38,380 --> 00:55:41,508
And turning them into something that
was part of the utility of the costume.
933
00:55:43,051 --> 00:55:46,805
So, to transition from the World War II
aesthetic to the end of Cap's journey,
934
00:55:46,888 --> 00:55:50,308
so he's already had, I don't know,
probably six costumes
935
00:55:50,392 --> 00:55:54,062
in between this and The First Avenger
costume and this one.
936
00:55:54,145 --> 00:55:57,732
One of the challenges we had on this suit
was really making these scales work.
937
00:55:58,316 --> 00:56:00,985
A lot of my job
is hopefully inspiring people,
938
00:56:01,069 --> 00:56:03,446
but it's also just letting people
solve problems.
939
00:56:04,364 --> 00:56:09,536
We did a whole bunch of iterations where
it would look perfectly fine in the front.
940
00:56:09,619 --> 00:56:12,706
But the moment that, you know,
you would go into a three-quarter view,
941
00:56:12,789 --> 00:56:16,084
those lines started to diminish
and not look as great.
942
00:56:16,167 --> 00:56:20,922
One of the things as an artist is failure
comes as a fear with every brushstroke.
943
00:56:21,381 --> 00:56:23,299
-Yeah, straight lines on a compound curve.
-Yep.
944
00:56:23,383 --> 00:56:24,259
[both laugh]
945
00:56:24,342 --> 00:56:26,594
You're starting from a blank page
and you're building it up.
946
00:56:26,678 --> 00:56:30,807
And a lot of times, you'll take a misstep.
You'll go the wrong direction...
947
00:56:30,890 --> 00:56:32,642
There's, like, an odd banding shape.
948
00:56:33,643 --> 00:56:34,894
[Meinerding]
...and have to course correct.
949
00:56:34,978 --> 00:56:39,190
So, I sort of deal with failure
at every moment, I feel, of every day.
950
00:56:39,274 --> 00:56:41,776
When you see it on screen you just say,
"Oh, cool, he's wearing the scales."
951
00:56:41,860 --> 00:56:44,779
But the amount of engineering and artistry
that goes into making these things
952
00:56:44,863 --> 00:56:46,448
really come to fruition is incredible.
953
00:56:46,531 --> 00:56:48,450
I had hoped it would look very good,
954
00:56:48,533 --> 00:56:50,785
and it turned out better
than I could have ever expected.
955
00:56:51,453 --> 00:56:54,497
Every part of this ride has felt like,
956
00:56:54,581 --> 00:56:57,375
it can't get bigger,
it can't get more amazing.
957
00:56:57,459 --> 00:57:01,963
And somehow the filmmakers and
Marvel Studios make it all come together
958
00:57:02,047 --> 00:57:04,341
into something that's even bigger
than what came before.
959
00:57:05,884 --> 00:57:09,471
It's nostalgia for me. It's really weird,
the characters hold a lot of nostalgia
960
00:57:09,554 --> 00:57:11,514
because I love them
from when I was younger.
961
00:57:11,598 --> 00:57:16,061
And now I've been working at Marvel
for a little beyond 13 years,
962
00:57:16,144 --> 00:57:18,813
and those memories are, you know,
963
00:57:18,897 --> 00:57:20,482
things I'll cherish
for the rest of my life.
964
00:57:26,654 --> 00:57:28,823
[Brown] Every day, across the world,
965
00:57:28,907 --> 00:57:32,994
in theme parks and studios,
on stages and sets,
966
00:57:33,078 --> 00:57:37,082
the people of the Walt Disney Company
are all part of the same idea
967
00:57:37,165 --> 00:57:40,585
that's guided the company
since Walt himself dreamed it up.
968
00:57:40,794 --> 00:57:41,628
[chuckles]
969
00:57:41,711 --> 00:57:43,672
-They're telling stories.
-Soy listo!
970
00:57:43,755 --> 00:57:45,548
They're inspiring people.
971
00:57:45,632 --> 00:57:47,676
And they're proving over and over again,
972
00:57:48,343 --> 00:57:51,763
the power of their imagination.
973
00:57:51,846 --> 00:57:57,644
I'm the same guy that I was when
I graduated from Ithaca College in 1973...
974
00:57:58,728 --> 00:58:01,523
that went to see Cinderella
with my grandparents.
975
00:58:02,565 --> 00:58:03,608
I love a great story.
976
00:58:04,818 --> 00:58:06,695
I also happen to love what I do.
977
00:58:07,987 --> 00:58:11,032
I just-- Look, I get motivated
by the fact The Walt Disney Company
978
00:58:11,116 --> 00:58:14,411
occupies such a special place
in the world.
979
00:58:14,494 --> 00:58:18,373
We primarily, in our storytelling,
manufacture happiness,
980
00:58:18,456 --> 00:58:19,916
is the way I like to describe it.
981
00:58:21,501 --> 00:58:22,836
That's pretty motivating.