The Walt Disney Studio Showcase Backstage at Disney (1983) from DIsney Channel (long before the sitcoms)

on April of 1983 the Disney Channel had an episode of  'The Walt Disney Studio Showcase" called "Backstage at Disney"

(restored by Garrett Gilchrist)

If you know your Disney history and saw the obscure films,  "Backstage at Disney" is like the 1941 film "The Reluctant Dragon"  (actor Robert Benchley tours around the Disney animation department.)

but here in 1983, animation historian John Culhane "snoops" around not only the animation building, but also the rest of the studio itself.   

Films and TV shows that were in production in this documentary:  

Zorro and Son (1983), 

Early pre- production on Roger Rabbit (before Steven Spielberg, Bob Zemeckis and Richard Williams came on board)

 Baby: Secret of The Lost Legend (!985) (released under the Touchstone Pictures label)

The Black Cauldron (1985)

Tim Burton's Hansel and Gretel (1983)  (produced for a Halloween episode of  'The Walt Disney Studio Showcase" series

Never Cry Wolf (1983)

and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

note in part three of this documentary according to John Culhane that The Black Cauldron was planed to be released in 1985. and it did.