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.
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.
