VoiceTalentBrendan, thank you for posting about that BBC Disney documentary 'Disney the Fariy Tale Years'. I watched it when it first aired (I recorded it and watched it again) way back when I was 9 years old. It's fascinating watching it again as an adult now that all the artists and historians are familiar names to me.
It also really took me back to that time. The current Disney films were so popular – Beauty and the Beast was a huge hit and it seemed that everyone had seen it and loved it. Aladdin was just around the corner – I remember that documentary offered my first glimpse at that film. As a 9 year old Disney and animation fan, the most fascinating part were the Laugh-O-Gram clips. I so, so wanted to watch those rare black and white cartoons!
I remember at school the next day, I wasn't the only kid who had found the documentary interesting. A couple of years later, another British documentary, an episode of 'Secret Lives' about Walt Disney, also made an impact. It seemed that everyone at school had watched it and it cemented the idea of Walt Disney as a thoroughly reprehensible, extremely bigoted individual in the minds of many people in the UK.