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Documentary. Featuring Walt Disney. Directed by Theodore Thomas. Images Have you seen one of Christopher Guest's mock documentaries, particularly "A Mighty Wind" or "Best in Show," in which comically obsessed characters talk directly to the camera with great and ridiculous earnestness? "Walt & El Grupo," a documentary about Walt Disney's 1941 ...

Scarlett reports on the September private premiere of Walt and El Grupo including a detailed look at the film.

Whatever you think of Walt Disney, chances are that goodwill ambassador wouldn't be one of the first descriptions that come to mind.

In 1941, with the U.S. inching ever closer to war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dispatched Walt Disney and his creative team to South America, in hopes of thwarting the spread of Nazism with good old-fashioned American entertainment.

The Three Caballeros will always hold a place in my heart. As a child of the 1960s and early 70s, at a time when my class mates were experimenting with mind-altering drugs, I was getting my high off screenings of early 30s Fleischer cartoons and Disney's South American psychedelics.

Walt Disney was in a tight spot. Movie Information Walt & El Grupo Rating: Director: Theodore Thomas Run time: 106 minutes MPAA rating: PG Synopsis: Walt Disney and a group of animators visit South America at the behest of the U.S. government and return with Saludos Amigos.

The Buffalo International Film Festival Debuts on Friday, and for two weeks aims to make Buffalo feel like a big city again City Lights Putting together a film festival is not the easiest thing in the world to do, especially if you want one in the truest sense of the words.

Walt & El Grupo kicks off with some wonderful material: audio of Walt Disney himself.

You can't blame the Disney company for wanting to chronicle its own history with documentary portraits of its sparkling past.

What do you do when war is raging in Europe, you're $4.5 million in the hole and your workers have just gone on strike? Go to South America! "Walt & El Grupo" chronicles a little-known, harrowing and ultimately uplifting episode in Walt Disney's life, when after the stunning success of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," the Disney studio was in ...

A relentlessly upbeat vanity project destined for the Disney family archive, "Walt & El Grupo" documents a 1941 goodwill trip to Latin America undertaken by Walt Disney and his wife, Lillian, plus 16 of the studio's most creative artists.

We live in a time when Walt Disney's name is linked to everything from theme parks to mouse ears.

The future of his studio was threatened by shaky finances and a prolonged strike.

Shane Acker's postapocalyptic tale '9' takes place in a land that's almost entirely deserted.

Walt Disney was in dire straits in 1941. The success of the Mickey Mouse cartoons and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs in the '30s gave Disney the resources to build a studio and to make the more ambitious features Pinocchio and Fantasia .

When I tell you that Walt Disney was charged by the United States government in the early 1930s with going down to South America in order to spread American goodwill and ward off the growing National Socialism movement there, you're immediate thought is that you wish someone would make a documentary about it, right? Don't be freaked out.

Near the end of the 1930s, the Nazis were making inroads in Latin America. To quell that momentum, President Roosevelt named Nelson Rockefeller head of a special agency -- a veritable international chamber of commerce and cultural exchange agency -- that sent various Hollywood celebrities to visit these countries to, in effect, win the hearts and ...

Fantasia II : Walt Disney dances on the rooftop of Buenos Aires' Alvear Palace Hotel in 1941.

Walt and El Grupo is the new feature length documentary about the two month tour of South America that Walt and his staff took - by arrangement of the U.S. Government - in 1941.