Overview
- PBS SoCal has licensed the 2025 documentary Bob Gurr: Living By Design for a Southern California broadcast window that runs through the end of July and is offering the film as a free stream to viewers outside the region.
- The film, directed by Frank H. Woodward, premiered in Glendale last year and chronicles Bob Gurr’s multi-decade career at Walt Disney Imagineering and his later firms.
- Coverage emphasizes Gurr’s role designing ride vehicles and systems for early Disneyland attractions, including Autopia, the Monorail, the Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Submarine Voyage, and The Haunted Mansion.
- The documentary also details Gurr’s post-Disney work, such as designing the King Kong animatronic for Universal Studios Hollywood and consulting on the original Jurassic Park T. rex, and notes industry honors he received later in life.
- Wider streaming access is likely to renew public interest in theme-park design and make primary-source material about mid-20th-century attraction engineering available to fans, students, and historians.