Inside The Walt Disney Studios & Archives In Burbank / Stopping By Warner Bros & Horrible LA Traffic

0:02 today's adventure begins as a recording

0:02 of this it is Monday August 12th 2024

0:06 it's 7:04 a.m. I am departing my room

0:10 here at the DVC Tower the Disneyland

0:12 Hotel I'm here for another day or two

0:15 but I am heading up to out of Orange

0:17 County up the five freeway up to the

0:20 Hollywood Burbank area where I'm doing a

0:22 couple of different things first off I'm

0:24 going to be going to the Disney Burbank

0:28 Studios at 9 9 a.m. so I have about an

0:32 hour and 56 minutes to get up there

0:35 traffic shouldn't should be probably

0:37 pretty bad with rush hour but I think I

0:38 can make it in an hour and 45 minutes

0:41 and then after that just kind of see

0:42 where the day goes up in LA and then

0:44 I'll come back here tonight over back

0:46 down to Orange County welcome

0:48 everyone it's a wonderful day welcome

0:51 everyone out of the woo here I am now

0:55 just teetering into my 50s day two

0:59 second day after my birthday you know I

1:01 guess technically day one would have

1:02 been my birthday nonetheless it's only

1:05 been a couple days it's the big 5 reared

1:08 its head I am wearing an appropriate

1:11 t-shirt to be going to the studios now

1:14 I've been to the

1:15 studios twice over the last decade it's

1:18 probably my third

1:20 time always a good

1:27 time always a good time I don't know

1:27 where I was going with that I need some

1:29 caffeine

1:31 at some point I was like lost my train

1:33 of thought there it's early it's been a

1:35 it's been a whirlwind last couple weeks

1:38 but definitely last couple days d23 is

1:41 completely over when I exited out of the

1:43 lobby come back over to the parking

1:44 structure all the balloons for d23 are

1:47 gone all the paraphernalia it's all been

1:51 erased from

1:53 existence look at that sun glistening up

1:55 as it Peaks up over the horizon onward

1:59 up into the sky

2:01 oh it's a good day feels great out here

2:03 no humidity it's going to be a warm one

2:05 but definitely not on par my home in

2:09 Florida hot which I know right now is

2:12 scorching probably get a coffee a little

2:14 bit later I don't want I don't want to

2:15 fill up on a huge hot coffee while I'm

2:18 in the rental car stuck in rush hour

2:20 traffic it doesn't always end well so

2:23 probably get I'll probably just wait

2:24 until I get closer up there get going

2:26 now leaf blowers

2:30 leaf

2:31 blowers

2:39 everywhere it's projecting about an hour

2:39 and 10 minutes from this point I've

2:41 already been already been on the road

2:42 about 15 or

2:44 so let caught another hour and

2:57 20 it's all part of the experience Ella

2:57 very slow going on both

3:24 sides slow going but at least at least

3:24 it's

3:26 moving at least it's moving

3:29 going so slow in fact I can get a nice

3:31 little view well besides this

3:34 pylon pylon removed of downtown LA I'm

3:38 just creeping along here very slowly

3:42 creeping along I was the tree obscuring

3:45 it slow

3:53 going one thing I will say about La

3:53 though you know what you're in

3:55 for s in Florida you get your hopes up

3:57 like I'm going to get on I4 and it's

3:59 going to be smooth

4:00 sailing and then it's not and you're

4:02 disappointed here you

4:05 know you all you know it's like this so

4:08 it's really not as disheartening to

4:12 drive from Orange County to LA because

4:14 you know this is going to be the

4:16 experience it's all part of the

4:18 experience R

4:28 quick some points of the 101 well the

4:28 five goes into the 101 to get up to

4:31 Hollywood passing

4:33 La sometimes I feel like you can just

4:35 get out and walk

4:38 faster not really but yeah you know

4:41 sometimes I feel that way I've never

4:43 seen this before here on the side going

4:45 any little tunnel that goes over the

4:55 overpass other side moving

4:55 swiftly well just for a bit freefit

4:58 there's a little there's a little l is

4:59 going Southbound also going northbound

5:10 is it's 8:15 now I got about guessing

5:10 another half hour so I'm going to be

5:12 getting to the parking area at the

5:14 Disney Studios probably 15 minutes

5:17 before the chour

5:19 starts don't know if they'll have coffee

5:22 there I'm hoping they have coffee there

5:26 but if anything happens I mean if

5:27 there's a a wreck up here here or

5:30 someone has a flat tire and bottlenecks

5:33 more I might get there right on time or

5:35 maybe even a little bit fashionably

5:47 Lake there's Echo Lake right there

5:47 getting off the freeway taking a little

5:49 bit of a shortcut in order to make it on

5:52 time there's Echo

5:55 Lake right over there

6:19 all right I made it so that dirt field

6:19 you see over by the animation building

6:20 right off the freeway there Griffith

6:22 Park over there other side of that

6:24 mountain it's the Hollywood side the

6:27 other side of ABC building which is

6:29 right there behind the Sound Stage was

6:31 where Disneyland originally was going to

6:33 be built it's going to be called Mickey

6:34 Mouse Park but they moved

6:36 it wisely through some different

6:40 situations they moved it down to Orange

6:41 County I think it's in a better spot now

6:43 I wouldn't had enough room here and

6:45 showing my ID going in I asked security

6:47 if they were going to have coffee or

6:49 anything before the tour to wait on a

6:51 bench meet up with the tour guide and

6:53 hopefully have some some coffee around

6:56 they should he said they should have

6:57 coffee just ask the tour guide so

6:59 definitely we need to get caffeinated

7:00 get this day going I'm on the lot also

7:04 should be noted that this Hospital right

7:06 there is the hospital that Walt Disney

7:08 passed away in right next to a studio

7:10 all right back in my car now tour was a

7:12 success let's give a big shout out to

7:14 randomly Randy good buddy of mine who

7:18 him and his family were doing the tour

7:19 he goes hey you want to do the tour with

7:20 us I said yeah so thanks to him for put

7:24 me on with the rest of his group it's a

7:26 good time we're not allowed we were not

7:28 allowed to film on the tour but the

7:32 guide was very sweet she said you can

7:33 take as many photos as you want just

7:35 don't film any video or audio inside

7:38 once you're start the tour started so

7:40 after that hedge moment I uh decided

7:42 just to take photos this is the old

7:44 building that was moved from Hyperion

7:46 Studios which was the

7:49 original Studios of Disney I'm trying to

7:51 get this where there's like no angle

7:53 here this was the very first building

7:55 that was ever built on property and this

7:59 was like like a not a preview Center but

8:00 it was the first one where they did

8:02 casting and things like that when the

8:04 studio was being built this was the gift

8:07 shop here but back in the day this was

8:09 used for some pre-production for Dumbo I

8:12 believe she said Dumbo was the first

8:14 fulllength animated movie that was

8:16 filmed on this lot and not Hyperion

8:19 which is the one that predated this one

8:22 and this is where the animators would

8:23 bring in different animals real live

8:26 animals and animate them and they would

8:28 use them you for context to see how the

8:30 animals moved and things for Dumbo you

8:33 got some bike racks there Hidden Mickey

8:35 this here is the Sherman brother stage

8:37 for Richard and Robert Sherman named

8:39 after Richard and Robert Sherman this

8:40 could be seen it's also a filming

8:42 location from Saving Mr Banks if you've

8:44 seen that when she's pulling up to the

8:46 front there this is a very famous spot

8:49 here Pluto's

8:50 corner and this was used this is a movie

8:53 prop from The Reluctant Dragon the uh

8:56 Mickey a and all that and you also got

8:58 the fire hydrant and you got Mickey's

9:00 Not Mickey but Pluto's paw prints down

9:02 here there's three paw prints not four

9:05 because Pluto is a dog and has his leg

9:08 hiked up for the fire hydrant this is a

9:11 very very famous thing here of Dopey

9:12 drive and Mickey a just kind of looking

9:15 the other direction there's a photo of

9:17 me standing in that kind of iconic spot

9:21 right

9:22 there I'll post this over on my

9:24 Instagram if you want to follow me on

9:26 Instagram Adam the woo atw on Instagram

9:28 that's Adam the woo at W on Instagram

9:30 I'll post a I'll post this on there you

9:32 can get a better look at it the

9:33 animation building I remember seeing a

9:35 documentary it might have been the

9:37 imagineering story but I saw somewhere

9:39 when Richard Sherman before he passed

9:41 talked about on the upper level going to

9:43 towards Walt's office he was in the

9:45 hallway talking about last time he saw

9:47 Walt and Walt said keep up the good work

9:50 boys and then Walt passed shortly after

9:53 that was the last time Richard Sherman

9:55 ever saw Walt in the second or third

9:58 floor of this building in the hallway

9:59 that we walked down and of course now

10:01 Richard Sherman has passed on would have

10:04 been in that top window up there where

10:05 Richard Sherman told the told the story

10:08 right around this spot might have been

10:10 on the next level but it was at the end

10:11 of a hallway similar to that the guide

10:14 was also saying that storyboarding

10:16 started with Disney so any storyboarding

10:19 ever done on movies and TV now all

10:20 originated with Disney now I do not know

10:23 if it was 101 Dalmations that that

10:25 happened on but she did tell the story

10:28 here at the 101 dalmati story boards

10:32 pretty neat and then also this is

10:33 original concept art and how Genie was

10:36 going to look before Robin Williams came

10:38 on board and Robin Williams was so over

10:40 the top and funny that they changed the

10:42 whole vibe of what the genie was going

10:45 to look like he was going to be very

10:46 very scary but then that change so just

10:49 some random photos this leads down to

10:52 the to the morg there which is like

10:54 where they keep a lot of the the old

10:57 film cells and stuff like that we

10:58 couldn't go to but she also said this

11:00 was used in Escape From Witch Mountain

11:02 or maybe return to Witch Mountain this

11:03 little tunnel area right here these are

11:06 all the these are all the posters that

11:07 were of movies that were done when Walt

11:09 was still alive here's some shadow boxes

11:13 of some different items of Mickey giving

11:14 a tour of the studio these are the

11:17 called The Sweat rooms which is where

11:18 they would go in there I guess there was

11:20 no air conditioning back then or if

11:22 there was it wasn't the best and they

11:24 call them the sweat rooms or sweat boxes

11:27 there's Walt overlooking one of the the

11:29 workers

11:31 there we're kind of getting in towards

11:34 more where Walt's office is towards

11:37 there so this is I think this predated

11:39 The Reluctant Dragon and the Dopey dry

11:42 but behind so there's a building where

11:44 Walt's standing now but the sign would

11:48 be right behind him in that general area

11:50 but I didn't see the sign in that photo

11:51 so that must have predated this side or

11:54 he was just kind of blocking it with his

11:57 torso there there's some groundbreaking

11:59 probably on something else that was

12:00 going

12:01 on now we're getting into the parks this

12:04 is interesting so you know the famous

12:05 speech that Walt say all that come to

12:07 this happy place welcome this was the

12:11 practice for that before I think it may

12:13 have been the day before opening day of

12:16 Disneyland and I had to get a good photo

12:18 of this so there's me in front of when

12:21 he was talking about the Florida project

12:22 which of course now I live right where

12:26 he's pointing that that pointer so this

12:29 building was built by Michael

12:30 Graves who also designed the celebration

12:34 post office a little connection he also

12:35 designed Swan and Dolphin but yeah he

12:38 designed the celebration post office

12:39 where I live this is also the only

12:42 partner statue in the world that you can

12:44 walk up to and touch all the other ones

12:47 are kind of heightened up a little bit

12:49 and have shrubs and fencing around them

12:52 at The

12:59 Parks look at the speed limit too the

12:59 speed limit through is 8 mph and I was

13:02 told years ago when I first visited it's

13:04 been been years ago but the reason they

13:06 make it 8 Miles hours that way it sticks

13:08 in your brain you will always remember

13:10 don't go 10 because if it was 10 you

13:13 would forget oh speed limit's 10 you

13:14 would go faster but eight you're never

13:16 going to forget an odd weird bizarre

13:18 number even though it's an even number

13:20 you're never going to forget an

13:22 eight also eventually went in the

13:24 archives there's the pan of vision

13:26 camera and I also ended up finally

13:28 getting a piping Hut caffeinated

13:29 beverage from Starbucks at the Frank gws

13:33 Starbucks part of the dream team of

13:36 Eisner Eisner and Wells which I love

13:38 Eisner CEO but I actually got a coffee

13:41 at the Frank G Wells Starbucks which is

13:44 really freaking

13:46 cool yeah big fan of the Eisner Wells

13:49 era that's a great great photo

13:51 there there's another one look at this

13:55 look at that that's me looking at the

14:00 Michael Graves

14:02 Masterpiece right there with the only

14:04 partner statue that you can touch also

14:07 used to have water here was like a

14:08 reflecting pool but they changed they

14:10 changed it to just pavement because I

14:12 guess the upkeep on it was like a little

14:14 too much here's a great one of me like

14:16 acting like I'm going to push the button

14:17 on Lucas film I need to talk to to

14:19 George in there Great Sound stages down

14:21 there the guide was saying on the other

14:23 side of this water tower used to be

14:25 where Passa aquati was that was a Passa

14:27 aquati film in location from pach

14:30 stragon one of my favorites and also

14:32 some of those STS sound stages all the

14:33 stuff that was really built for

14:35 Disneyland was built inside there

14:37 including over there the Mark Twain

14:39 riverbat was built in those sound stages

14:42 then some of the other smaller

14:43 Disneyland stuff was inside there oh

14:46 here's the bench from

14:48 Titanic right there it was a screen used

14:50 bench from Titanic I don't know why they

14:52 have them here but they

14:53 do Saving Mr Banks I think that might be

14:56 the tree couple of these little alov

14:58 looks familiar

14:59 but one of these little alcoves is where

15:01 Paul Giamatti was sitting went over and

15:04 saw Pamela over in that little

15:07 area this was an original building here

15:10 of the editing this is the original

15:11 editing room for the original Disney

15:13 films this building was brought also

15:15 brought over from Hyperion so this is an

15:17 original

15:18 Hyperion as well this is stage one which

15:21 is where Mary Poppins was filmed right

15:24 inside there I believe don't quote me on

15:26 this but I believe Cherry Tree Lane was

15:28 built inside stage one and then stage

15:31 two okay I'm I'm getting confused this

15:34 might be where Mary Papa's with there

15:35 stage one and stage two but those are

15:37 the two St two stages also the gift shop

15:41 you actually to the gift shop kind of

15:43 but the employee Center which usually is

15:46 open where you can get exclusive

15:48 merchandise we were not be able to get

15:50 inside of there because everyone still

15:53 kind of recouping from d23 so it was not

15:56 open today but it would be tomorrow but

15:58 as the day filming this the employee

16:00 Center where you can get the exclusive

16:01 merchandise that guest can can purchase

16:04 was not open but we did get to go in the

16:06 archives here's Walt's desk in fact

16:08 there's Walt right up there there's

16:09 Walt's

16:11 desk there's a bus to

16:14 Walt there's a chair with Walt's name on

16:17 it you ever been on a haunted mansion

16:19 not here at Disneyland not in Anaheim

16:21 but out in Florida at Walt Disney World

16:23 my uh my area of residence this was the

16:27 quote well not the unquote the supposed

16:29 Donald Duck chair that sat at the end of

16:32 the stretch hallway the Eternal hallway

16:35 where hatbox ghost now resides this was

16:37 the chair that sat there for many many

16:39 years had a little dust on it a little

16:42 little age worn they had that in the

16:44 archives that's pretty freaking cool

16:47 pretty freaking cool there's there's me

16:49 holding one of Walt's many Oscars I'm

16:52 holding an Oscar by Walt Disney and of

16:54 course Roy and Walt right there I took a

16:57 couple mile commute over to another

16:59 Studios I parked up here on the very top

17:01 of the parking structure at Warner

17:06 Brothers I've done the Warner Brother

17:07 tour many many times I will not be

17:10 showing too much

17:12 today that's just something that I've

17:14 never really seen before pops out but

17:16 I'm just going to have a enjoyable

17:18 couple hours without really taking the

17:21 camera so much inside there also all the

17:25 other levels are really full except this

17:26 one but I like parking on the roof so

17:28 you get a bird's eye perspective but

17:30 this there's no cars up here because who

17:31 would want to park up here in the

17:34 Southern California heat except

17:37 me but I do want to show so if you ever

17:40 pay for the tour here you can park up

17:42 here and get a nice little birds ey I've

17:43 showed this a bunch of times but s look

17:46 there's a tour down there but since I

17:48 have been here the last time again every

17:51 time I'm in California I try to do the

17:52 WB tour because it's just amazing but

17:55 since the last time I was here I

17:56 recently saw the film Maxine

17:59 fact I saw it three times in the theater

18:01 really like it it's the third in that

18:03 series with X being first and then Pearl

18:05 and then Maxine they use Universal lot

18:10 over there that's Universal off in the

18:11 distance and they also use

18:13 Warner which is right down here one of

18:16 the scenes from Maxine took place right

18:18 there there's a little security booth

18:20 when he's like I'm Maxine he's like oh I

18:23 know the guide right there and then when

18:25 the director comes over she's like I

18:27 don't know what you have going on in

18:28 your life right now but whatever you do

18:30 squash it she's like oh I intend to was

18:34 right there they were standing right

18:35 there and behind them I'm pretty sure

18:36 the director you know he loves movies so

18:38 much he likes old 80s Throwbacks so

18:41 behind them you can see Madam Ruby's

18:44 down there from peewee's big adventure

18:45 and then also the stairstep going down

18:47 to get the M wife from Gremlins I'm sure

18:49 he did that on purpose I just wanted to

18:51 show that yeah the Maxine spots I'll

18:54 show another Maxine spot too that took

18:56 place right down there if anyone's seen

18:58 it yeah also on the tour the guide gave

19:01 us all these really really cool official

19:03 VIP studio tour right there I'll add

19:06 this to my pinboard and I asked the gift

19:08 shop hey do you guys sell penss he goes

19:09 oh we used to we're out of stock on them

19:11 and the guy like oh the guy was like oh

19:13 I forgot to give you these thanks for

19:14 bringing that up and handed all of us on

19:17 the tour there's a total of eight of us

19:18 I believe on the tour I got a little

19:20 little Mickey wal Disney Production

19:22 Studio Tour so just doing a little

19:26 yesterday I was Hotel hopping from one

19:29 hotel to the next in Anaheim now I'm

19:31 Studio hopping today in la ah I love

19:36 SoCal oh actually there are two cars up

19:38 here mine over there my rental and

19:39 there's another one this one has the

19:40 better idea they parked in the shade I

19:42 should have done that again every other

19:44 level full of lots of cars seemed like

19:47 it's going to be pretty busy on a lot

19:48 today I was like a park at P6 though so

19:51 I get that birds I learned that from the

19:52 GI German and Venice saw one of his

19:55 videos a couple years ago and I was like

19:57 that's genius

19:58 shout out to the GI also with a little

20:01 Warner brother's hack being able to

20:04 overlook the backlog so on the outside

20:06 of the lot right over here I don't know

20:08 how many people have seen Maxine

20:10 but this is

20:14 where Kevin Bacon was parked with his

20:16 car he was filming her she was up here

20:18 at the stop sign they digitized out the

20:21 WB logo there on the

20:28 side she takes the key I want to get too

20:28 many spoilers she grabs her keys and the

20:30 incident happens with keys I'm not going

20:32 to give any more spoilers on that but

20:34 something happened right here yeah I

20:36 think you should probably see the movie

20:37 first before I start giving any spoilers

20:38 but the the key scene there were some

20:40 keys

20:41 involved right here on this exact spot

20:51 here all right it looks like burbach is

20:51 doing something called an elephant

20:54 parade do not touch or sit on the

20:56 elephant

20:59 yeah the

21:01 WB right when you go in the lobby it

21:03 looks like they have a model is this

21:05 screen used from the first film this

21:06 says Town model right here there was a

21:09 rumor in the town they filmed this in in

21:10 Vermont that this was in the library for

21:12 many years I don't know if this is a

21:14 recreation or the real thing but I don't

21:15 and I don't know if the sequel's coming

21:17 out Beetle Juice Beetlejuice but this

21:19 looks like it would have been from the

21:20 first movie including the suit here that

21:22 Michael Keaton wore and the cake and the

21:25 house and then this very interesting

21:27 sculpture I don't I know if this is in

21:29 the remake or if it's in the it says

21:30 it's in the first film what it's from

21:32 that's pretty that's pretty dang awesome

21:34 right that's pretty dang cool the

21:36 original the original shrimp hand puppet

21:38 right here from the film all right I

21:41 just asked one of the team members they

21:42 were saying this is the original model I

21:44 guess Tim Burton rescued it from the

21:46 basement at whever whatever it

21:48 originally was I don't know if it was

21:49 originally in the basement at the

21:50 library in East Corinth or not and this

21:51 is just a small portion of it but these

21:53 are all screen used props including this

21:56 right here it was about five times the

21:58 size

21:59 in the movie but yeah this this this was

22:01 from there and this is the animatronic

22:04 that Catherine O'Hara gets wrapped

22:06 around so this is screen used so I guess

22:08 there's like robotic arms in there that

22:10 wrapped around Katherine O'Hara all

22:12 right we got Beetle Juice Monopoly over

22:14 here you got this is a yeah I don't know

22:16 if I'm mess around with that but you got

22:18 all kind of and they're promoting the

22:20 the new film oh this is interesting it's

22:22 like a little photo selfie spot right

22:24 over here and I swear Tim is not

22:27 following me and I'm not following

22:29 but he's also doing a tour today we're

22:31 doing different tour we can't stay away

22:33 from it we're like magnets well which

22:36 one's the are you the magnet or the

22:37 metal we magnets attached to each other

22:39 too we can both be magnets okay we're

22:40 double

22:41 magnet all right nice little few hours

22:45 Warner Brothers got to see quite a bit

22:47 had a good

22:49 time now I'm going to start making the

22:52 commute an opposite Rush Hour back to

22:55 Orange

22:56 County uh got to love LA

23:00 traffic hit Rush

23:03 Hour driving up Rush Hour driving back

23:49 there

23:49 goes the Metro

23:54 Rail through downtown Los Angeles the

23:57 metro rail

23:59 the Metro

24:02 Rail find ways to be entertained in

24:04 traffic and that's going to do it for

24:06 today thanks for

24:08 watching I'm going to relax in the

24:15 room that's about it that's about it for

24:15 the rest of the rest of the

24:18 night I'll see you in the next video boy

24:21 you got to love La I think LA traffic is

24:23 honestly getting worse than it was when

24:25 I lived here a few years ago used to

24:28 take about when traffic was bad from

24:29 Orange County to Hollywood usually take

24:33 about an hour and 15 minutes if it was

24:34 bad now it's like an hour and 30 hour

24:37 and 40 minutes I think the worst it used

24:40 to be back then was like an hour and 20

24:41 minutes from Disneyland to the universal

24:44 Area North Hollywood Burbank area and

24:48 now it's like an hour and a half hour

24:50 and 45 minutes sometimes goodness I'll

24:53 see you in the next video the Vlog is

24:55 over

Inside The Walt Disney Studios & Archives In Burbank / Stopping By Warner Bros & Horrible LA Traffic

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