Movies Roy Disney's sailing documentary 'Morning Light'

Tom Morrow · 10-14-2008, 11:55 PM

Roy Disney's sailing documentary 'Morning Light'

The last Disney in the Kingdom
At 78, Walt's nephew produces a doc on another great love: sailing the Pacific

Toronto Star
Roy Disney, whose father Roy Oliver Disney was co-founder of the Disney studio, believes his sailing documentary about a group of adventurous young sailors at the helm of a racing sloop, would strike the right chord with Uncle Walt. "I think he would like it, but I also know that any time I ever did anything for him he breezed right in and said, `Let's do this and this and this to it.' I never knew what those things would be, so I'm sure he'd do that again," Disney says with a chuckle.

Morning Light follows 15 young people, all sailors under age 23 with varying levels of experience, who are chosen to train for the 4,000-kilometre California to Hawaii Transpac ocean race. Roy Disney knows the challenges the Transpac offers well – he's done the race 16 times.

The movie opens before the final 11 are chosen to sail the race, and follows them through six months of training in Hawaii – all sharing a house – and in California. He agrees the tone of the film hearkens back to the documentaries that helped build the studio's reputation in the 1950s and '60s. The younger Disney got his start making films in the True Life Adventure series in 1954.
by Linda Barnard

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Executioner · 10-15-2008, 06:19 AM

At least someone is trying to keep up the Disney legacy and spirit. I would love to see this movie when it comes out.

cap10hook72 · 10-15-2008, 10:39 AM

^I would too. I'm really interested! Is there a scheduled release date?

Ezra · 10-17-2008, 10:23 PM

The movie opened today.

Another nice piece about it in Disney Insider newsletter.
Setting Sail with Roy Disney
If you don't subscribe to the Disney Insider e-mails, I highly recommend them.

Executioner · 10-17-2008, 10:34 PM

That was a great article in the Disney Insider. I love getting those every month.
I am really glad he made a movie much in the way his late uncle would have done. I can't wait to see it.

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