While "My Basque Country" is like many World's Fair films, a technological advance that uses the Iwerks 360 camera and projector system capable of displaying a film on a circular, seamless screen (other 360-degree films use as many as nine cameras, nine screens), it is basically storytelling, a road film about a vacationing Basque family. Planning for the film began in Summer 1991 with two months devoted to research and story development and to wading through levels of concerned governmental experts. The first rough cut was made in December 1991 after 20,000 feet of film was shot in three demanding six-day work-weeks.