My Peoples
A Few Good Ghosts
Disney's Florida studio built Appalachian folk-art dolls, music and early animation around a cross-family romance, then cancelled the film and closed the studio producing it.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- full production started
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A cancelled Disney animated musical feature developed by director Barry Cook.
Ghosts inhabiting handmade folk figures would help two young lovers overcome a long feud in 1940s Appalachia.
Existence timeline
Barry Cook begins an Appalachian supernatural romance.
The Florida studio expands story, music and design work.
My Peoples becomes A Few Good Ghosts during revisions.
Maquettes, voice work and completed scenes accumulate.
Disney stops the feature before completion.
The production unit behind the project is dissolved.
Why it ended
Disney cancelled the project during a company shift away from traditional animation and later closed its Florida feature studio.
Last confirmed trace
Character maquettes, completed animation, music demos, story reels and crew artwork survive in exhibitions and archives.
What it left behind
The project represents both a distinctive regional American story and the final unrealised ambition of Disney's Florida animation unit.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to full_production_started under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.