Walt & El Grupo

Walt & El Grupo is a 2008 documentary film produced by Theodore Thomas Productions through The Walt Disney Family Foundation Films. It is centered around the goodwill trips to Latin America that Walt Disney and his artists took that resulted in the films Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros.
==Summary==
For ten weeks in 1941, Walt Disney, his wife Lilly, and sixteen colleagues from his studio visited nations in Latin America to gather story material for a series of films with South American themes. The feature documentary film uses this framing device to explore inter-American relations, provide a rare glimpse into the artists who were part of the magic of Disney’s “golden age” and give an unprecedented look at the 39 year-old Walt Disney during one of the most challenging times of his entire life.
==Interviewees==
*Juan Carlos González
*Mariuza Barroso Salomao
*Marcelo Nino
*Virgilio Roig
*John Canemaker
*Blaine Gibson
*Diane Disney Miller
*Harriett Wolcott (Charles Wolcott's widow)
*Jeanette Thomas (Frank Thomas' widow)
*Cindy (Sears) Garcia (Ted Sears' daughter)
*Lydia (Bodrero) Reed (Jim Bodrero's daughter)
*Leticia Pinheiro
*Shelia Banani & Marsha Gilpatrick (Charles Wolcott's daughters)
*J.B. Kaufman
*Ankito
*Harriet Burns
*Maria Elisa Botelho Byington
*Maria Cecilia Braga de Araujo Goes
*Flávio Barroso
*Brian and Janet Lansburgh (Larry Lansburgh's son and grandaughter)
*Juan Carlos Portas
*Mali Legarreta
*Josefina Molina Chazarreta
*Andres A. Chazarreta Ruiz
*Miguel "Tachuela" Gramajo
*Hugo Rocha
*Guillermo Guerrero
*Jorge "Faruk" Palacio
*Cecilia Palacio
*Elizabeth O'Farrell de Apellaniz
*Miguel B. O'Farrell
*Kevin Blair (Lee and Mary Blair's son)
*Jorge Delano
==="El Grupo" Members===
*Lee Blair, Layout
*Mary Blair, Story/Sketch
*James Bodrero, Story/Sketch
*Hazel Cottrell
*William Cottrell, Story
*Jack Cutting, Film
*Lillian Disney
*Walt Disney
*Norman Ferguson, Producer
*Larry Lansburgh, Assistant Director
*Janet Martin, Public Relations
*John P. Miller, Story/Sketch
*John Clarke Rose, Business Manager
*Herbert Ryman, Layout/Camera
*Ted Sears, Story
*Webb Smith, Story
*Frank Thomas, Animation
*Charles Wolcott, Music
==External links==
*Official website
==See also==
* Walt Before Mickey
* Saving Mr. Banks
Category:2008 films
Category:Disney films
Category:Documentaries
Category:Films
Category:Live-action films
Category:Saludos Amigos
Category:The Three Caballeros
Category:PG-rated films