| Title: | The Disneyphile's Disney File |
| Notice: | This Conference can show you The World |
| Moderator: | DONVAN::SCOPA .zko.dec.com::manana::eppes |
| Created: | Thu Feb 23 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 536 |
| Total number of notes: | 19961 |
Last night, August 12th, a local station here in LA showed a 1-hour program titled "THE DISNEYLAND STORY". It gave the history of DISNEYLAND from the start. Some of the old clips of the parks opening brought back old memories. It featured Harry Anderson narrating the program explaining the creation and growth of Walt's dream. It all started as a TV show and then with backing from the network, it was put "A major network", the park was built. The TV show was used to introduce the park and show the attractions. A point that I did not know was when Walt was running out of money when he was building the park, he resorted to re-cycling. He used the giant squid from 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER TO SEA in the submarine ride. He also got landscaping from the State of California when they were clearing the land for the freeway system. The best yet was when the money ran out for landscaping, little signs were placed by the local vegetation in the park with the Latin name of the plant. Harry read the name of one plant which turned out to be ragweed. Walt did almost anything to improve the park. The MARK TWAIN was the first ship on the "Rivers of the World" and Walt wanted another one. He mortgaged his home to raise the money to build the COLUMBIA. The creation of The Haunted Mansion (Roy Disney's baby) was under some fire for people thought it might be too frightening for small children. The plan went ahead and became a hit. There was a segment "After Midnight" which showed what went on after all the guests left. Disney has many plans to change Disneyland in the years to come. The plans mentioned last night extend into 1999. Some of the up and coming ideas that I remembered were: Dick Tracy attraction Another George Lucas attraction Baby Herman's wild buggy ride. I hope this show gets repeated, then I can tape it. Bill
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| 217.1 | Try The Disney Channel | CLOSET::VAXUUM::LOWELL | Grim Grinning Ghosts... | Tue Aug 14 1990 16:25 | 8 |
Bill,
Is this the show where Harry Anderson gets on the train and travels
back in time? Assuming that's the show, I think it's one of the
35th anniversary specials and is being shown on The Disney Channel
this month.
Ruth
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| 217.2 | Gotta look | BREAKR::STARKGRAF | Arroyo Surfing, a spectator sport | Wed Aug 15 1990 19:53 | 8 |
Ruth,
I think that is the same one. At the end of the show, Harry gets out of
the dining car (last car on one of the Disneyland Trains that remains
locked). Now I have to look. It was part of the 35th special. Silly
me, I have the Disney channel and take it for granted.
Bill
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| 217.3 | Overdeveloped! | DELREY::MEUSE_DA | Mon Aug 20 1990 13:42 | 8 | |
Yes, it was an interesting show. Since I grew up that area, it made me
sad to see how pretty Orange County used to be and what a mess it is
today. I remember we used to chase jackrabbits through the groves, and
hike to Disneyland through them.
DM
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| 217.4 | Replay | VAXUUM::LOWELL | Grim Grinning Ghosts... | Sun Jul 07 1991 23:33 | 4 |
For those of you who didn't get to see/tape this show, it will be
shown again on the Disney Channel. According to the July/August
issue of The Disney Channel Magazine, it will be shown on August 27
at 8PM ET/PT (7PM Central).
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| 217.5 | Walt's biography | DPDMAI::MATTSON | It's always something! | Wed Sep 04 1991 13:41 | 17 |
I just returned from Disneyworld, and one of our bus drivers was
telling us some trivia about Walt Disney, and recommended that we go to
our local library, and check out a book about the man. So I did. He
really was an interesting and complex man. The book I read is
"Disney's World" by Leonard Mosley. According to this author, Walt was
an incredible genius, artist, entrepeneur, charmer, but was also
puritanical, chauvinistic, (but a man of his time) egotistical, a
perfectionist, a workaholic, and a real SOB to work for. He was
notorious for underpaying his employees, and thought that the prestige
of working for him should be enough. (I don't know if thats still the
case today.) And when any of his employees created a character, or had
any other brilliant creations or contributions, Walt took full credit
for them, and would only have his name on everything.
It was an interesting book, I would recommend it to anyone...
Becky
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