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{\an8}The park means a lot to me

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{\an8}in that, it's something
that will never be finished.

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Something that I can keep developing.

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A thing I can keep building as long
as I can get some money to build it with.

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And I felt that all along
and all through my career,

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instead of talking
to somebody about something,

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if I could, I'd go ahead and make
something and then show it to them.

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<i>The people of this country
are about to see and hear</i>

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<i>a new adventure in entertainment.</i>

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<i>It will come upon the American scene
shortly under the title of Disneyland.</i>

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<i>Walt Disney is
the greatest creative genius</i>

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<i>in the entertainment business.</i>

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<i>He's brought new concepts to the theaters</i>

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and entertained millions
and millions of people.

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- That was quite a build up there and, uh--
- You deserve it.

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Well, that's what worries me, you know?

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{\an8}Walt had decided in his own mind

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{\an8}that if he was going
to make this thing work,

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{\an8}he'd have to have financing,

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and was willing to do some TV shows
in order to help get the financing.

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<i>He's now going to try his luck
on home television.</i>

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And I'm sure the same impact
will be made on the home audience

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as Walt has made in the theater audience.

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Well, I just want to assure you
that we're not taking it lightly,

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that it's not going to be just a little
stepchild of the Disney organization.

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It's going to be
one of our major enterprises.

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Now on a site of, uh, 240 acres,
near the city of Anaheim,

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we've begun
to build Disneyland, the place.

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{\an8}When Walt described
this great park,

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{\an8}I knew that this was not a good idea

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{\an8}because who is going to drive
30 or 40 miles?

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<i>The opening date for the park
has been set for mid-summer of 1955.</i>

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<i>We could never meet this deadline</i>

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<i>without the complete cooperation
of everyone who works here.</i>

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{\an8}Most people in Hollywood
thought Disneyland

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{\an8}would be a Hollywood spectacular,
a spectacular failure.

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So, Roy Disney said, "What do you mean,
most people in Hollywood?"

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He says, "That's what I thought."

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We want you to see and share with us

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the experience of building
this dream into a reality.

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{\an8}Once the area was picked out,
everything started really congealing

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{\an8}because Walt, in his own mind,

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{\an8}set a deadline
that was impossible to make.

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An opening of July of 1955.

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And I still don't see
how it was ever done.

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{\an8}One day
he called me up and said,

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{\an8}"Remember I was talking about
having some kind of a Disney affair

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{\an8}here in Southern California?"

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And so, um, I got in a car with him,

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and we rode, and we rode,
and we rode, and we rode.

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I thought, "Where the hell

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is he taking us to?"

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And we got down to his orange groves.

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He said, "This is all top secret stuff."
And I said, "Yeah, that's right."

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And I didn't bother to tell him
I thought he was out of his mind.

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<i>This is our progress report
from Disneyland.</i>

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On our first television program,
we showed you a blueprint for a dream.

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Well, this is the blueprint.
And the dream is Disneyland,

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the park that we're constructing
near Anaheim, California.

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We promised to keep you informed
as our dream became a reality.

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So, for a firsthand progress report,
let's visit Disneyland now.

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<i>One of our naturalist photographers
is Stuart Jewell,</i>

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<i>an expert in time lapse photography.</i>

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<i>We don't have
these cameras up here just for fun.</i>

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<i>They keep a daily record of the growth
and development of Disneyland.</i>

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<i>Now, an ordinary camera
takes 24 pictures a second.</i>

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<i>But these take one picture
every 15 seconds.</i>

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<i>And of course, that makes things
look a lot faster on your screen.</i>

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<i>Disneyland is divided
into four cardinal realms,</i>

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<i>the four different worlds from which
our television shows will originate.</i>

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<i>Adventureland...</i>

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<i>Tomorrowland...</i>

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<i>Fantasyland...</i>

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<i>and Frontierland.</i>

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{\an8}Walt, even at that time,

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{\an8}had in the back of his mind
how he wanted to move people.

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He was anxious to just get
all the ideas possible together.

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It was, uh, helping him
to gel his concept.

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Which I think at the time was loose
and fluid and all over the place.

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{\an8}Roy always hated to be in debt.

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{\an8}And Walt seemed to revel in the idea
because we were continually in debt.

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And it did take that
extraordinary blind faith,

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you know, to follow Walt,

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because he had a rough time with banks,
and they couldn't see it either.

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And he was always off
in left field somewhere.

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There was nothing
he could say about something,

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except that he had a hunch
it was going to work.

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{\an8}Believe it or not,

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{\an8}it wasn't too easy to sell people
on the success of Disneyland

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{\an8}because there were
a lot of doubting Thomases.

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And finally the ball began to roll

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and it began to get bigger
and bigger and bigger.

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And you think, "Well,
now what if this fails?

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What if the people don't like it?
What if it's too far away?

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What if they go once and never come back?"

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But that's Walt's problem.
If he fails, then it's his failure.

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We could go by car, of course.

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It's a pleasant 50-minute trip
across town.

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But let's be different.

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<i>Let's take to the air.
Let's go by helicopter.</i>

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{\an8}In order for Walt
to take his guest by the hand

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{\an8}and take him on a hike through
the Missouri wilderness or anything,

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what he doesn't need is
a high-rise building,

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or a transmission tower

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or freeway interchange in the background.

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So, number one, they build a berm
because it takes a berm to shut out sound.

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Now, you're in Walt's world.

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That's an important function
from the landscape standpoint.

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{\an8}Walt, he didn't want
just small trees. He wanted big trees.

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{\an8}He says trees have no scale.

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{\an8}So, he wanted a real show in there.

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And he used to ride herd on
Bill Evans to get bigger and better trees.

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{\an8}Walt didn't want to
have to wait five years

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{\an8}to get the landscape
to harmonize with the architecture.

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{\an8}Well, we could do that up to a point
but we ran out of dollars.

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We're striving for instant maturity
within the constrictions of a budget.

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And our budget was very, very meager.

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I did... I did a quick sketch
of where we were going to put berms

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and where we were going to put boulders,
and where we were going to put trees.

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But no dimensions or anything.

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I planted it all by the seat of my pants.

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Oh, man, that music's gone, gone ♪</i>

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<i>♪ When I go out and I want a treat ♪</i>

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<i>♪ I find me a band with a solid beat ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Take my chick and we dance about ♪</i>

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<i>♪ When they start rockin'
Boy, we start to shout, we shout ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Man, that music's gone, gone ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go, go, go, go, go, go, go ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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{\an8}<i>♪ Man, that music's gone, gone ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Said crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Man, that music's gone, gone ♪</i>

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<i>♪ They play it soft
They play it strong ♪</i>

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<i>♪ They play it wild
And they play it long ♪</i>

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<i>♪ They just keep playin'
Till the break of day ♪</i>

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<i>♪ To keep them rockin'
All you gotta say is ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Crazy man crazy ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Man, that music's gone, gone ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪</i>

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<i>♪ Go, go, go, go, go, go, go ♪</i>

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<i>With so much activity
and so much heavy equipment,</i>

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<i>there's bound to be an upset now and then.</i>

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<i>But the operators
take these things in stride.</i>

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<i>And fortunately,
we've had no serious accidents.</i>

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<i>Here's the beginning of Main Street,</i>

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<i>a composite of all the small towns
in America at the turn of the century.</i>

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<i>Here, you can take a ride in a horsecar</i>

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<i>past the old town hall,
the opera house, the firehouse.</i>

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<i>And if you stay on to the end of the line,
you will reach the Hub of Disneyland,</i>

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<i>where this camera tower now stands.</i>

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{\an8}The budget in starting
was four and a half million dollars.

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{\an8}In August, it was seven million.

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{\an8}In December, it was 11 million.

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In the springtime, it was anybody's guess.

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{\an8}And we ran out of money

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{\an8}and almost had to stop construction
at 17 million.

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That's what happens

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when you try to make a thing
as special as Disneyland in a short time.

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{\an8}I haven't invested money in ranches.

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{\an8}I haven't got anything here.
I have a home. That's all.

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But this thing, I put my own money in.

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And I borrowed on the insurance
that I've been paying on for 30 years.

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{\an8}Walt and I would be walking
around the enormous foundation

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{\an8}for the railroad station
and the underpass coming into Disneyland.

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And he turned to Dick Irvine and said,

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"By the time Joe gets through
burying all our money underground,

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we won't have anything left for a show."

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He was really sincerely worried
about the... the situation.

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<i>In Wilmington, California,</i>

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<i>construction was going forward
on two steam locomotives, vintage of 1900.</i>

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<i>Probably the last of their type
ever to be built in the United States.</i>

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{\an8}Walt just loved miniatures
of almost everything, I think.

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{\an8}And the trains were

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probably a kind of
a personification of childhood to him.

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You know, it's what you grew up around.

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Walt was eight years younger than Dad.

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And so, he kind of
was the little kid around the trains.

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And they were around the railroads a lot.

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And they had an uncle who was an engineer.

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Both of them used to
talk quite a lot about the thrill

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of going down and standing there
by that great big locomotive

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and, you know, seeing their uncle.

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{\an8}I learned about trains
by building one for Walt.

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{\an8}The one that we built
that ran around his house.

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We had the drawings
for what is known as the Lilly Belle.

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Having all the drawings
for the little train,

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we got started and manufactured
the, uh, locomotives, the cars.

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So all we had to do was expand the gauge

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from 1/8th scale
to the 36-inch gauge track.

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<i>Back at the studio,
the working models of our rides</i>

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<i>had been perfected and we were
well into construction on the real thing.</i>

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{\an8}The, uh, Peter Pan ride,
for instance,

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{\an8}they had one whole
warehouse building over there

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filled up with the overhead rails
and the cars.

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And we did the dips and the swirls.

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This was something
that's completely new too.

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I don't think there's ever been
an overhead suspended ride

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in any amusement park, to my knowledge.

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<i>In nearby Newport,</i>

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<i>we were building and assembling
miniature Autopia racing cars.</i>

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<i>These will speed along
the Tomorrowland freeway.</i>

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<i>Our most difficult problem</i>

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<i>was to build them to fit
the varying sizes of growing youngsters.</i>

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<i>And to give it
that authentic real-life feeling,</i>

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{\an8}<i>our freeway will be patrolled
by miniature police cars.</i>

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{\an8}Every job that you work on
with Walt is different,

222
00:20:52,750 --> 00:20:55,833
{\an8}and you figure out what you're gonna do
and how you're gonna do it,

223
00:20:55,917 --> 00:20:57,375
just as you get started on it.

224
00:21:03,083 --> 00:21:08,208
We had no project managers,
therefore we didn't need any coordinators.

225
00:21:08,292 --> 00:21:12,250
The Xerox machine hadn't been invented
yet, so we didn't, uh, publish anything.

226
00:21:12,333 --> 00:21:14,167
All we did was just do the work.

227
00:21:15,958 --> 00:21:18,958
Walt never gave a thought
that he was overloading people.

228
00:21:20,125 --> 00:21:22,750
It was like, well,
okay, we're just doing it.

229
00:21:22,833 --> 00:21:25,000
So you do all this stuff sort of at once.

230
00:21:27,292 --> 00:21:30,125
You didn't dilly dally on decisions.

231
00:21:34,458 --> 00:21:36,417
And it's up to Walt
to run around and catch you,

232
00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:39,917
that it's not going the way he wants it.
That's his problem.

233
00:21:48,792 --> 00:21:52,042
{\an8}And there was
a lot of people that said, "He's done."

234
00:21:53,750 --> 00:21:57,083
{\an8}If it had gone down,
the studio would have gone down with it

235
00:21:57,167 --> 00:22:00,500
because everything
was tied up in the park.

236
00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:12,083
{\an8}They had a lot of problems

237
00:22:12,167 --> 00:22:15,125
{\an8}getting the place opened
by that opening day.

238
00:22:15,792 --> 00:22:20,083
{\an8}They dug out the Rivers of America,
and they filled it up with water one night

239
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and came back the next morning,
and it was totally dry.

240
00:22:22,833 --> 00:22:26,375
It was a sandy soil,
and the water just plain disappeared.

241
00:22:31,542 --> 00:22:37,375
{\an8}We started to experiment
with the waterway for the, uh, big river,

242
00:22:37,458 --> 00:22:38,833
{\an8}Rivers of America.

243
00:22:40,833 --> 00:22:44,875
First of all, we used, uh...
bentonite or whatever it was.

244
00:22:44,958 --> 00:22:48,625
It was a gooey thing that
was supposed to make a waterproof bottom,

245
00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:51,542
and that didn't work too well.

246
00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:59,667
{\an8}Everything wasn't sweetness and light

247
00:22:59,750 --> 00:23:02,500
{\an8}and beautiful during the construction.

248
00:23:03,958 --> 00:23:06,667
Walt always came down on Sunday morning,

249
00:23:08,458 --> 00:23:11,292
and he looked all around,
all over everything,

250
00:23:13,250 --> 00:23:16,583
and he... he took a couple of big sighs...

251
00:23:18,625 --> 00:23:22,208
and, uh, he turned to me
and he says, "Do you know something?"

252
00:23:22,958 --> 00:23:25,417
And he says,
"I just got some figures today."

253
00:23:26,375 --> 00:23:30,042
And he said,
"We've spent a little over half the money

254
00:23:30,125 --> 00:23:32,125
that we have to spend on this park."

255
00:23:33,375 --> 00:23:39,167
And he says, "There isn't one thing
there, or there, or there,

256
00:23:39,250 --> 00:23:41,667
but holes in the ground and piles of dirt.

257
00:23:41,750 --> 00:23:44,208
There isn't one thing that any human being

258
00:23:44,292 --> 00:23:47,375
would spend fifteen cents
to come and see."

259
00:23:47,458 --> 00:23:49,417
And he said, "I'm scared."

260
00:23:52,208 --> 00:23:53,208
And he was.

261
00:24:01,458 --> 00:24:04,500
And it was-- You couldn't believe
that you spent half this--

262
00:24:04,583 --> 00:24:07,042
It seemed like
an enormous amount of money,

263
00:24:07,708 --> 00:24:11,292
and there was nothing there
that anybody would give a darn about.

264
00:24:14,042 --> 00:24:17,292
He just sat there.
He didn't say anything for long.

265
00:24:17,375 --> 00:24:22,417
And it really impressed upon me on what
responsibility was and what worry was,

266
00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:24,333
because I was worried about little things,

267
00:24:24,417 --> 00:24:27,792
about whether this was going to get done
or whether this and that...

268
00:24:27,875 --> 00:24:30,125
But this is something
that hadn't occurred to me

269
00:24:30,208 --> 00:24:31,875
because I didn't know anything about it.

270
00:24:31,958 --> 00:24:38,458
But this is what worry is,
and it was brought home to me that day.

271
00:25:19,583 --> 00:25:21,792
<i>Inside stage three nearby,</i>

272
00:25:21,875 --> 00:25:25,125
<i>we started construction
on a 105-foot American riverboat,</i>

273
00:25:25,208 --> 00:25:27,708
<i>the stern-wheeler,</i> Mark Twain<i>.</i>

274
00:25:28,333 --> 00:25:30,458
<i>Since the deck slopes
from one end to the other,</i>

275
00:25:30,542 --> 00:25:33,917
<i>each piece of wood
had to be individually cut and fitted.</i>

276
00:25:35,417 --> 00:25:39,083
<i>Constructing such a large boat
inside a building 50 miles from water</i>

277
00:25:39,167 --> 00:25:41,042
<i>caused a lot of raised eyebrows.</i>

278
00:25:41,958 --> 00:25:45,583
<i>But unlike the fellow who built a boat
in his basement and couldn't get it out,</i>

279
00:25:45,667 --> 00:25:46,667
<i>we had a plan.</i>

280
00:25:51,208 --> 00:25:52,917
<i>Well, we fooled nearly everyone,</i>

281
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,292
<i>for it was designed to come apart
in sections for shipping.</i>

282
00:26:29,542 --> 00:26:31,333
{\an8}Walt, right from the beginning,

283
00:26:31,417 --> 00:26:34,042
{\an8}made up his mind
that he would have something different.

284
00:26:34,917 --> 00:26:38,542
{\an8}He would have the concept
of a family amusement park.

285
00:26:39,458 --> 00:26:42,500
And, uh, we were highly criticized

286
00:26:42,583 --> 00:26:46,458
at the beginning by some of the old-time
operators of amusement parks,

287
00:26:46,542 --> 00:26:48,542
because of spending too much money,

288
00:26:50,417 --> 00:26:52,417
going into too much, uh, detail.

289
00:27:04,250 --> 00:27:06,083
{\an8}Before the park opened,

290
00:27:06,167 --> 00:27:10,250
{\an8}we went to various
key amusement parks in the country

291
00:27:10,333 --> 00:27:14,000
and manufacturers to see if they
would be interested in manufacturing

292
00:27:14,083 --> 00:27:15,708
things that we had designed.

293
00:27:15,792 --> 00:27:18,625
Almost invariably,
the manufacturers would say,

294
00:27:18,708 --> 00:27:22,542
"Well, that would be pretty hard to do.
Why don't you buy one of our things?"

295
00:27:22,625 --> 00:27:25,625
So there's the typical
amusement park ride for sale.

296
00:27:27,917 --> 00:27:30,375
But, with Walt, we can't do this.

297
00:27:30,458 --> 00:27:34,958
And so these beautiful things
were all made and they were not practical,

298
00:27:35,042 --> 00:27:36,917
and he knew they were not practical.

299
00:28:46,417 --> 00:28:50,292
{\an8}The idea for a Disneyland
lay dormant all those years.

300
00:28:50,375 --> 00:28:53,833
{\an8}It came along when I was taking
my kids around to these kiddie parks.

301
00:28:53,917 --> 00:28:58,417
And I'd take them around, we used to
go out every Saturday and Sunday.

302
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:01,083
Their mother wouldn't go with us.
We'd be gone.

303
00:29:01,167 --> 00:29:03,750
I took them to zoos.
I took them everywhere.

304
00:29:04,667 --> 00:29:07,208
And, uh, they used to love
to go with me in those days,

305
00:29:07,292 --> 00:29:10,125
and it was some of
the happiest days of my life.

306
00:29:18,125 --> 00:29:21,750
{\an8}All my life I heard him
talk about doing this kind of a park.

307
00:29:21,833 --> 00:29:25,333
{\an8}And as the years went on,
from the time I was five

308
00:29:25,417 --> 00:29:29,625
and until he finally did it when I was 21,

309
00:29:29,708 --> 00:29:30,958
the dream just grew.

310
00:29:31,458 --> 00:29:33,042
From this very humble little thing,

311
00:29:33,125 --> 00:29:35,583
that maybe would be
contained on the studio lot,

312
00:29:36,458 --> 00:29:39,083
to something quite grand.

313
00:29:42,917 --> 00:29:45,708
I think everyone thought he was crazy

314
00:29:45,792 --> 00:29:49,500
like they did when he said he wanted
to do a feature-length cartoon.

315
00:29:56,167 --> 00:30:00,250
{\an8}You have to look at this in some respects

316
00:30:00,333 --> 00:30:04,167
{\an8}as a kind of a... it was a huge experiment.

317
00:30:05,208 --> 00:30:08,250
This was the genesis of that kind of park.

318
00:30:11,417 --> 00:30:13,750
What Walt started out to do,
for heaven's sake,

319
00:30:13,833 --> 00:30:18,708
was to do something as radically different
from Coney Island as he could dream up.

320
00:30:59,250 --> 00:31:01,417
{\an8}Walt knew everything
that went into that park.

321
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:04,583
{\an8}He knew where every pipe was.

322
00:31:05,125 --> 00:31:08,125
{\an8}The only thing that he didn't realize,
and it was hard for him to learn,

323
00:31:09,250 --> 00:31:11,292
the necessity of building concrete.

324
00:31:11,375 --> 00:31:15,083
He thought we could build it like
a motion picture set on a temporary basis.

325
00:31:22,667 --> 00:31:26,333
So he never got over and was awfully mad
at the Adventureland waterfall,

326
00:31:26,417 --> 00:31:28,667
because of all the concrete
that went into it.

327
00:31:37,542 --> 00:31:40,042
<i>Up river,
other workmen were just as busy</i>

328
00:31:40,125 --> 00:31:42,542
<i>solving the problem
of how to build a rock.</i>

329
00:31:43,292 --> 00:31:46,333
<i>Creating beautiful rock formations
is nothing for Mother Nature,</i>

330
00:31:46,417 --> 00:31:48,750
<i>but it wasn't so easy for us.</i>

331
00:32:15,583 --> 00:32:17,542
{\an8}I was supposed to look
at the cost sheets...

332
00:32:17,625 --> 00:32:19,042
{\an8} ...when they came in every day,

333
00:32:19,125 --> 00:32:23,542
{\an8}but I had never...
I failed arithmetic in high school.

334
00:32:23,625 --> 00:32:26,417
And I didn't know whether
we were in the black or in the red,

335
00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:27,875
but if nobody had come over

336
00:32:27,958 --> 00:32:30,542
and said you were running over,
I didn't say anything.

337
00:32:30,625 --> 00:32:34,250
And Walt would come in, and he'd say,
"How much money have you spent so far?"

338
00:32:34,333 --> 00:32:36,792
And I'd say, "Let me see."
And he'd say, "I'll tell ya."

339
00:32:36,875 --> 00:32:38,708
And he'd tell me exactly.

340
00:32:52,667 --> 00:32:55,000
{\an8}When Disneyland
was under construction,

341
00:32:55,083 --> 00:32:56,750
{\an8}there were so many people at the studio

342
00:32:56,833 --> 00:33:00,292
{\an8}all working on this crazy idea
for an amusement park.

343
00:33:01,292 --> 00:33:04,875
In one way, it seemed crazy, in another
way, it seemed completely natural.

344
00:33:11,875 --> 00:33:15,917
We really didn't have, what you would say,
administrative offices.

345
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,917
We just had people everywhere.

346
00:33:23,417 --> 00:33:27,792
<i>♪ Tweedlee tweedlee tweedlee dee ♪</i>

347
00:33:29,125 --> 00:33:33,333
<i>♪ I'm as happy as can be... ♪</i>

348
00:33:33,417 --> 00:33:36,625
{\an8}You kind of hated to go home
at the end of the day because, oh, gosh,

349
00:33:36,708 --> 00:33:39,417
{\an8}you'd have to go home and go to bed
and then get up the next morning

350
00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:41,500
and drive all the way back
and keep going again.

351
00:33:41,583 --> 00:33:44,958
So it was kind of an inconvenience
to stop and have to go home.

352
00:33:45,958 --> 00:33:49,292
<i>♪ Tweedlee tweedlee tweedlee dot ♪</i>

353
00:33:51,458 --> 00:33:54,875
{\an8}<i>♪ How you gonna keep that honey you got? ♪</i>

354
00:33:56,958 --> 00:34:02,542
<i>♪ Hunkies, hunkies fishes bite
I'm gonna see my honey tonight ♪</i>

355
00:34:02,625 --> 00:34:06,500
<i>♪ Tweedlee tweedlee tweedlee dot ♪</i>

356
00:34:08,083 --> 00:34:12,125
<i>♪ Tweedlee dum, tweedlee dum ♪</i>

357
00:34:13,833 --> 00:34:17,792
<i>♪ Give it up, give it up
Give your love to me... ♪</i>

358
00:34:23,458 --> 00:34:25,542
<i>Well, here we are inside Disneyland.</i>

359
00:34:26,625 --> 00:34:28,292
<i>Yes, we're in the park, all right,</i>

360
00:34:28,375 --> 00:34:30,875
<i>but we haven't left our problems
behind at the studio.</i>

361
00:34:30,958 --> 00:34:33,958
<i>We're just concentrating
a lot of them in one place here.</i>

362
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,667
{\an8}When we started out,
Walt didn't know how to read a plan

363
00:34:59,167 --> 00:35:01,875
{\an8}and he would never say so.

364
00:35:03,042 --> 00:35:05,208
But we used to try and fool him about it,

365
00:35:05,292 --> 00:35:08,625
so it wasn't soon
until he not only could read a plan,

366
00:35:08,708 --> 00:35:12,625
he could read it better than all of us,
and he had a better feeling of proportion

367
00:35:13,292 --> 00:35:14,667
than any of us did,

368
00:35:14,750 --> 00:35:16,625
because he knew exactly what he wanted

369
00:35:16,708 --> 00:35:20,458
in a way of scaled down
version of Main Street.

370
00:35:30,667 --> 00:35:34,250
{\an8}We built Disneyland with probably
not 10% of the plans to start with.

371
00:35:35,125 --> 00:35:37,292
{\an8}The plans were developed as we went along.

372
00:35:55,708 --> 00:35:57,792
{\an8}I think Walt was convinced

373
00:35:57,875 --> 00:36:03,542
{\an8}that if his guests
were exposed to good taste,

374
00:36:03,625 --> 00:36:05,750
good quality, good design,

375
00:36:06,750 --> 00:36:10,583
they would sort of
subconsciously perceive this

376
00:36:10,667 --> 00:36:14,333
not as a consequence
of being educated in landscape design

377
00:36:14,417 --> 00:36:16,250
or in architecture or anything else,

378
00:36:16,333 --> 00:36:20,542
but they would, subconsciously,
know the difference between good and bad.

379
00:36:32,250 --> 00:36:33,833
{\an8}They were bringing in

380
00:36:33,917 --> 00:36:38,625
{\an8}various landscape architects
to do different projects,

381
00:36:38,708 --> 00:36:44,875
and then Walt Disney became worried
that, because so many people were in it,

382
00:36:44,958 --> 00:36:50,667
it wouldn't hang together,
and so that's the way I started.

383
00:36:54,292 --> 00:36:57,833
So, I made a plan
of the Main Street and the Hub.

384
00:36:58,458 --> 00:37:01,542
And they called a meeting
of all the art directors,

385
00:37:01,625 --> 00:37:04,750
and Walt was there, and they approved it.

386
00:37:09,375 --> 00:37:13,167
Roy Disney said,
"Don't ever bother him with a problem.

387
00:37:13,250 --> 00:37:17,500
If you have a problem, come to us."
"Let him dream."

388
00:37:21,917 --> 00:37:24,875
So, every Saturday he would come down

389
00:37:24,958 --> 00:37:29,292
and we'd go around
with all the art directors

390
00:37:29,375 --> 00:37:34,875
and he would have new ideas
of something to be done.

391
00:37:36,792 --> 00:37:39,000
And he did, he wanted to
start it Monday morning.

392
00:37:39,083 --> 00:37:41,292
He didn't want plans Monday morning.

393
00:37:42,375 --> 00:37:45,458
So, many weekends, I'd work till midnight

394
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:52,833
getting out sketches or something
and that's the way it went.

395
00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:58,625
{\an8}The thing that I remember about it is,

396
00:37:58,708 --> 00:38:01,667
{\an8}while Walt had a temper
and he could demand things to be done

397
00:38:01,750 --> 00:38:05,292
{\an8}because he expected
everybody to do what he did.

398
00:39:08,875 --> 00:39:13,083
{\an8}In, uh, Disneyland,
we had very acute problems there.

399
00:39:17,208 --> 00:39:21,583
I was advised by two or three
of my major assistants.

400
00:39:21,667 --> 00:39:24,833
Under no circumstances
should we try to continue to open in July.

401
00:39:24,917 --> 00:39:27,083
We should postpone until September.

402
00:39:27,958 --> 00:39:29,292
But we said no.

403
00:39:37,625 --> 00:39:39,542
It was so important,
in the minds of the public,

404
00:39:39,625 --> 00:39:41,750
we were going to open in July,

405
00:39:43,417 --> 00:39:44,500
and as a matter of fact,

406
00:39:44,583 --> 00:39:48,292
if we had waited until September with all
of our problems financially and so forth,

407
00:39:48,375 --> 00:39:50,792
we might never have gotten off the ground.

408
00:40:25,125 --> 00:40:27,375
{\an8}It was a learning process
all the way through,

409
00:40:28,375 --> 00:40:30,625
{\an8}and the thing I liked
the most about those days

410
00:40:30,708 --> 00:40:34,250
{\an8}was it was a great thing
to have somebody say, "Well, let's do it."

411
00:41:47,167 --> 00:41:48,667
<i>By now, all over the studio,</i>

412
00:41:48,750 --> 00:41:52,292
<i>hammers and saws were quickly
being replaced by paint and brushes</i>

413
00:41:52,375 --> 00:41:53,917
<i>for the deadline was drawing near.</i>

414
00:41:54,833 --> 00:41:58,708
<i>The hurry-up, paint-up,
finish-up campaign began in earnest.</i>

415
00:42:14,667 --> 00:42:16,542
{\an8}Well, it seems
as if there's always pressure.

416
00:42:16,625 --> 00:42:19,708
{\an8}I suppose it's part of the nature,
I guess, of show business.

417
00:42:20,833 --> 00:42:22,542
{\an8}And, of course, part of it is opportunity

418
00:42:22,625 --> 00:42:25,542
and part of it
is sensing the moment has come.

419
00:42:26,458 --> 00:42:29,958
And, Walt being the intuitive man he was,

420
00:42:30,042 --> 00:42:32,917
of course,
sensed it was the time for this.

421
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,792
And he did put pressure
on us and we did do it.

422
00:43:04,250 --> 00:43:06,417
{\an8}This was our big bugaboo.

423
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:09,500
{\an8}What were you gonna do
with this Tomorrowland?

424
00:43:09,583 --> 00:43:10,625
{\an8}We had to have it.

425
00:43:11,208 --> 00:43:16,917
You couldn't say we didn't want it.
And we struggled so hard.

426
00:43:44,417 --> 00:43:48,375
{\an8}One day, Walt and I
drove down together to Disneyland

427
00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:50,792
{\an8}and he said, "Well..." he said,
"Herbie..." he said,

428
00:43:50,875 --> 00:43:54,125
{\an8}"You know the worst thing
that could happen to us, don't you?"

429
00:43:55,208 --> 00:43:58,375
And I said, "Well, what do you mean
the worst thing that could happen?"

430
00:43:58,458 --> 00:44:04,417
He said, "Well, the worst thing that
could happen would be that I'd go broke."

431
00:44:05,958 --> 00:44:08,792
And I said,
"Yeah, I guess that would be pretty bad."

432
00:44:08,875 --> 00:44:10,958
And he said, "Well..." he said,

433
00:44:11,042 --> 00:44:17,042
"I've been broke five times in my life
and one more won't hurt."

434
00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:51,458
{\an8}If your team is sympathetic
and you all have the same goals,

435
00:44:51,542 --> 00:44:53,208
{\an8}why, you arrive at something

436
00:44:53,292 --> 00:44:56,042
{\an8}that's greater
than the sum of the parts, of course.

437
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:03,708
And, uh, I think it's well known
that this kind of thing works that way.

438
00:45:03,792 --> 00:45:06,542
You build a kind of an enthusiasm
and you share something.

439
00:45:06,625 --> 00:45:10,250
Sometimes it becomes a little ridiculous
and you just end up with fun.

440
00:45:10,333 --> 00:45:15,708
But most of the time, you turn over
things by a mutual stimulation

441
00:45:15,792 --> 00:45:20,375
that, uh...
that you'd never arrived at by yourself.

442
00:45:24,708 --> 00:45:29,792
Walt was a... was a real master
at provoking that type of atmosphere.

443
00:45:59,792 --> 00:46:00,792
<i>Here on the shores,</i>

444
00:46:00,875 --> 00:46:03,583
<i>we come upon the realm
of the creatures of the Serengeti plains.</i>

445
00:46:04,458 --> 00:46:06,917
<i>Towering above them all, the giraffe.</i>

446
00:46:08,083 --> 00:46:11,000
<i>To reproduce these animals
requires the combined efforts</i>

447
00:46:11,083 --> 00:46:14,458
<i>of the finest designers,
sculptors and master mechanics</i>.

448
00:47:01,042 --> 00:47:04,792
{\an8}I was determined
that I was gonna have the first ride

449
00:47:04,875 --> 00:47:08,667
{\an8}when the first boat
got in the ride with water in it.

450
00:47:08,750 --> 00:47:12,958
I was gonna ride first
and find out if the person got wet...

451
00:47:15,250 --> 00:47:19,958
because I had conceived the idea
of going behind the waterfall.

452
00:47:43,750 --> 00:47:47,375
So I went slow around
and looked at everything,

453
00:47:47,458 --> 00:47:49,792
and looked back
to see the clearance and everything.

454
00:47:49,875 --> 00:47:53,125
And, uh, as I started under the waterfall,
I got right in it.

455
00:47:53,208 --> 00:47:55,667
And then I looked back
to see where the stern was...

456
00:47:55,750 --> 00:47:57,667
...and there was Walt sitting there.

457
00:47:58,208 --> 00:47:59,583
My heart stopped beating.

458
00:47:59,667 --> 00:48:03,542
I was clear through the waterfall
before I came to.

459
00:48:04,375 --> 00:48:10,042
He stepped on board very carefully,
just as I left, and I didn't know it.

460
00:48:17,708 --> 00:48:22,167
<i>Presenting this week,
the pre-opening report from Disneyland.</i>

461
00:48:26,375 --> 00:48:28,500
In our first television show last year,

462
00:48:28,583 --> 00:48:33,333
we described to you our hopes
and plans for a place called Disneyland.

463
00:48:33,417 --> 00:48:36,042
A few months ago, in a progress report,

464
00:48:36,125 --> 00:48:38,833
we showed you
the actual start of construction.

465
00:48:40,583 --> 00:48:44,292
In our mail recently, a lot of you
have shown interest in our progress.

466
00:48:44,375 --> 00:48:46,917
And so this week,
just a matter of days away

467
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,000
from the formal opening of Disneyland,

468
00:48:49,083 --> 00:48:51,500
we want to bring you up to date
on what's been happening,

469
00:48:51,583 --> 00:48:56,875
and let you share with us the joys
and anxieties of our race against time.

470
00:48:58,208 --> 00:49:02,042
<i>In this, our final report
on building a Disneyland,</i>

471
00:49:02,125 --> 00:49:06,125
<i>I want to pay tribute to the many
studio artists, craftsmen and engineers</i>

472
00:49:06,208 --> 00:49:10,500
<i>whose untiring efforts
helped bring this dream to a reality.</i>

473
00:49:11,625 --> 00:49:15,792
<i>Without their skills and imagination,
Disneyland would not have been possible.</i>

474
00:49:24,417 --> 00:49:27,458
{\an8}Those last few days were frantic.

475
00:49:28,708 --> 00:49:33,667
{\an8}I saw gardeners spraying bushes
and flowers and things with paint

476
00:49:33,750 --> 00:49:35,000
because they had died.

477
00:49:35,083 --> 00:49:41,083
So, instead of with water,
they were painting grass, bushes, trees.

478
00:49:58,875 --> 00:50:01,083
{\an8}Prior to the opening,
there was a plumbing strike.

479
00:50:01,667 --> 00:50:06,167
{\an8}So, the decision was, should we have
drinking fountains or restrooms,

480
00:50:06,250 --> 00:50:09,208
because there literally
wasn't enough time to get both done.

481
00:50:09,292 --> 00:50:13,292
And Walt said, "Well, you know,
we've gotta have restrooms.

482
00:50:14,250 --> 00:50:17,958
And people can drink Coke and Pepsi,
but they can't pee in the street."

483
00:50:32,208 --> 00:50:35,125
{\an8}We had a gas leak under the castle,

484
00:50:35,208 --> 00:50:39,500
{\an8}and you could see little blue flames
coming all around the perimeter

485
00:50:39,583 --> 00:50:41,333
and the foundation of the castle.

486
00:50:44,833 --> 00:50:47,417
I was unaware of this,
of course, at the time, but...

487
00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:51,375
So I was smoking my pipe as usual,
and walking up from the Hub.

488
00:50:52,833 --> 00:50:56,625
All of a sudden, the fire chief at
the time came running out and grabbed me.

489
00:50:56,708 --> 00:50:59,083
We waltzed
all the way back down to the Hub.

490
00:50:59,167 --> 00:51:01,375
He said,
"Don't you know there's a fire out there?"

491
00:51:01,458 --> 00:51:03,167
He figured I'd blow up the castle.

492
00:52:19,083 --> 00:52:22,125
{\an8}Well, the pressures
were tremendous on everybody.

493
00:52:22,208 --> 00:52:26,917
{\an8}We all lived down there, and we worked
from early morning to late at night.

494
00:52:47,042 --> 00:52:49,375
{\an8}We were on a 48-hour week.

495
00:52:49,458 --> 00:52:53,000
{\an8}Walt used to come over on Saturday,
and we'd all go to lunch together

496
00:52:53,083 --> 00:52:56,458
and come back and work some more,
and he was right on top of us.

497
00:53:00,125 --> 00:53:02,708
{\an8}As far as the opening period,
it was very hectic.

498
00:53:02,792 --> 00:53:07,250
{\an8}I know at the time we lived down there,
we lived over the... the City Hall.

499
00:53:10,083 --> 00:53:13,667
We did all our last drawings, uh,
on the second floor of the City Hall there

500
00:53:13,750 --> 00:53:15,542
and were right on the spot.

501
00:53:17,375 --> 00:53:22,042
{\an8}It was just like
a great big panic all the time.

502
00:53:22,750 --> 00:53:24,292
{\an8}It was a miracle that it ever went on.

503
00:53:24,375 --> 00:53:28,167
And just as it was a miracle
that Disneyland ever got opened on date.

504
00:54:40,583 --> 00:54:44,458
{\an8}<i>People, uh, looked at me
in many ways and said,</i>

505
00:54:44,542 --> 00:54:48,250
{\an8}<i>"Well, I mean, look,
the guy has no regard for money."</i>

506
00:54:48,333 --> 00:54:50,875
<i>That's not true. I have regard for money.</i>

507
00:54:55,167 --> 00:54:56,958
<i>There's some people
that sit and worship money</i>

508
00:54:57,042 --> 00:55:00,375
<i>as something you've got to have
piled up in a big pile somewhere.</i>

509
00:55:01,208 --> 00:55:05,333
<i>I've only thought of money in one way.
And that is to do something.</i>

510
00:55:08,833 --> 00:55:13,417
<i>I don't think there's a thing that
I own that I'll ever get the benefit of,</i>

511
00:55:13,500 --> 00:55:15,375
<i>except through doing things with it.</i>

512
00:55:48,958 --> 00:55:51,125
{\an8} "We were learners,"
Walt said,

513
00:55:51,208 --> 00:55:53,708
{\an8}"and I didn't have enough money
to do any more than that.

514
00:55:53,792 --> 00:55:59,042
{\an8}I had to borrow, as you know, from ABC
and my insurance, and mortgage the house."

515
00:56:01,833 --> 00:56:04,292
There were delays by suppliers,

516
00:56:04,375 --> 00:56:08,417
and there were breakdowns
and threatened strikes.

517
00:56:13,625 --> 00:56:18,958
But Walt was daring. He put
everything on the line, and his beliefs.

518
00:56:20,167 --> 00:56:21,958
How many guys would do that?

519
00:56:41,250 --> 00:56:42,292
{\an8}Tenth of July,

520
00:56:42,375 --> 00:56:45,375
{\an8}we had a party at Disneyland.

521
00:56:45,458 --> 00:56:49,667
{\an8}And the first time we were allowed to run
the train around the park was that day.

522
00:56:49,750 --> 00:56:52,083
And also, the riverboat ran that day.

523
00:59:36,417 --> 00:59:37,875
{\an8}Walt was living down there,

524
00:59:37,958 --> 00:59:40,083
{\an8}and he was out there early, early morning,

525
00:59:40,167 --> 00:59:42,125
{\an8}seeing how everything was going.

526
00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:47,625
Just before opening, we...

527
00:59:47,708 --> 00:59:49,333
Tomorrowland wasn't finished,

528
00:59:49,417 --> 00:59:52,333
and we had to get in
and do a quick and dirty dressing job.

529
01:00:07,167 --> 01:00:13,042
{\an8}Before Disneyland opened,
everything was in utter turmoil.

530
01:00:15,167 --> 01:00:18,917
And in Tomorrowland,
we had these big buildings on both sides,

531
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,542
but nothing in them.

532
01:00:42,583 --> 01:00:44,458
<i>We hope you all
will be listening and watching</i>

533
01:00:44,542 --> 01:00:46,500
<i>next Sunday, July 17th,</i>

534
01:00:46,583 --> 01:00:49,292
<i>when we present
the formal opening of Disneyland,</i>

535
01:00:49,375 --> 01:00:52,333
<i>in an hour-and-a-half show
over most of these stations.</i>

536
01:01:08,542 --> 01:01:11,250
<i>These are just some
of the sites that ABC undertook</i>

537
01:01:11,333 --> 01:01:15,750
<i>to show a waiting nation
on the world's largest live telecast.</i>

538
01:01:23,292 --> 01:01:26,125
<i>It all started
when Mr. Kintner said to Mr. Disney,</i>

539
01:01:26,208 --> 01:01:30,125
<i>"How about ABC televising
the opening of Disneyland?"</i>

540
01:01:30,208 --> 01:01:32,667
<i>Mr. Disney thought it was a fine idea.</i>

541
01:01:33,917 --> 01:01:36,083
<i>After all the preliminary planning,</i>

542
01:01:36,167 --> 01:01:38,667
<i>the camera crew
started rehearsing their moves.</i>

543
01:01:40,833 --> 01:01:43,833
<i>Calls were sent out all over the nation,
rounding up equipment.</i>

544
01:01:43,917 --> 01:01:48,583
<i>Getting 85,000 feet of cable,
including 16,000 feet of coaxial,</i>

545
01:01:48,667 --> 01:01:50,833
<i>was no easy task in itself.</i>

546
01:01:54,042 --> 01:01:56,458
<i>Thirteen hydraulic forklifts
were brought in</i>

547
01:01:56,542 --> 01:01:59,250
<i>and were set about building
special camera platforms</i>

548
01:01:59,333 --> 01:02:01,042
<i>and mounting them onto these lifts.</i>

549
01:02:01,542 --> 01:02:04,083
{\an8}<i>The forklift operators
had to be rehearsed.</i>

550
01:02:04,167 --> 01:02:07,417
{\an8}<i>There was always the danger
they wouldn't stop the lifts in time</i>

551
01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:09,750
<i>and pull the cables out of the cameras.</i>

552
01:02:40,958 --> 01:02:46,083
{\an8}My work at the time
was getting Casey Jr. running.

553
01:02:48,042 --> 01:02:50,500
And I was testing it before opening,

554
01:02:50,583 --> 01:02:55,542
{\an8}and the train started up
to the first lift and started going over.

555
01:02:56,250 --> 01:03:00,000
We shut the ride down, of course,
to find out why this happened.

556
01:03:00,083 --> 01:03:03,375
We discovered, well, there was
no safety rail around the track,

557
01:03:03,458 --> 01:03:06,083
so we couldn't open the ride.

558
01:03:06,167 --> 01:03:10,125
But I was to run the locomotive once
around the track for the TV show.

559
01:04:09,125 --> 01:04:11,042
<i>All the time we were trying to rehearse,</i>

560
01:04:11,125 --> 01:04:13,125
<i>the workmen
were still building Disneyland.</i>

561
01:04:16,500 --> 01:04:20,917
<i>Another one of our small problems.
That's asphalt, not sand.</i>

562
01:04:21,833 --> 01:04:23,750
<i>We did manage to get some work done,</i>

563
01:04:23,833 --> 01:04:26,792
<i>in spite of all the frantic
last-minute construction,</i>

564
01:04:26,875 --> 01:04:28,708
<i>and men and material and trucks</i>

565
01:04:28,792 --> 01:04:31,917
<i>kept passing through
in a frantic effort to finish on time.</i>

566
01:04:34,833 --> 01:04:37,500
<i>This kept rehearsal
virtually at a standstill.</i>

567
01:05:16,042 --> 01:05:19,125
<i>Just before showtime,
the last preparations were being made.</i>

568
01:05:19,208 --> 01:05:24,708
<i>And then, ready,
Fantasyland, Frontierland,</i>

569
01:05:24,792 --> 01:05:28,875
<i>Adventureland, Main Street, Tomorrowland.</i>

570
01:05:29,708 --> 01:05:34,333
<i>Stand by. Five seconds.
And here's the show.</i>

571
01:05:35,833 --> 01:05:41,250
<i>♪ When you wish upon a star ♪</i>

572
01:05:41,333 --> 01:05:47,208
<i>♪ Makes no difference who you are ♪</i>

573
01:05:47,917 --> 01:05:49,875
<i>How do you do, everyone?
This is Hank Weaver.</i>

574
01:05:49,958 --> 01:05:52,792
For the past year,
this signature has announced

575
01:05:52,875 --> 01:05:55,208
the opening of <i>Disneyland,</i> the show.

576
01:05:55,292 --> 01:05:58,542
Now it announces
the opening of Disneyland, the place.

577
01:05:59,583 --> 01:06:01,250
<i>The people and eyes around the world</i>

578
01:06:01,333 --> 01:06:05,833
<i>are focused on these 160 acres
here in Anaheim, California.</i>

579
01:06:05,917 --> 01:06:10,125
<i>This afternoon, Disneyland,
the world's most fabulous kingdom,</i>

580
01:06:10,208 --> 01:06:14,667
<i>will be unveiled before an invitational
world premiere, and you, our guests.</i>

581
01:06:42,792 --> 01:06:46,542
<i>And to start the proceedings,
we take you to the entrance of Disneyland</i>

582
01:06:46,625 --> 01:06:48,667
<i>and your host, Art Linkletter.</i>

583
01:06:50,250 --> 01:06:52,542
<i>I'm standing here
on the railroad tracks,</i>

584
01:06:52,625 --> 01:06:56,167
and I'm in front of the big Disneyland
and Santa Fe railroad station,

585
01:06:56,250 --> 01:06:59,875
and down these tracks in just a couple
of seconds will come Walt Disney himself,

586
01:06:59,958 --> 01:07:04,250
<i>barreling in on a railroad train
built to 5/8th miniature size.</i>

587
01:07:22,625 --> 01:07:23,917
How did the run go?

588
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:25,250
Oh, fine. Fine.

589
01:07:25,333 --> 01:07:26,917
The governor had her around
till Frontierland

590
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,167
and then Fred Gurley there,
he took her round.

591
01:07:29,250 --> 01:07:31,333
I picked her up and brought her in.
Highballing in, boys.

592
01:07:31,417 --> 01:07:33,542
- Hello, Governor.
- Hello. Glad to see you, Art.

593
01:07:33,625 --> 01:07:35,792
Governor Knight of California,
ladies and gentlemen,

594
01:07:35,875 --> 01:07:39,583
and Walt Disney, of course, and
Mr. Gurley, the President of the Santa Fe.

595
01:07:39,667 --> 01:07:42,375
And of the Santa Fe
and Disneyland, if you please.

596
01:07:42,458 --> 01:07:43,583
That's right.

597
01:07:53,333 --> 01:07:55,000
<i>Thousands are coming in.</i>

598
01:07:55,083 --> 01:07:59,792
<i>They're going through the magic tunnel
on foot because no car can enter here.</i>

599
01:08:01,292 --> 01:08:03,125
<i>And, like Alice in Wonderland,</i>

600
01:08:03,208 --> 01:08:07,208
<i>as you go on through that tunnel
past the Disneyland Santa Fe,</i>

601
01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:11,000
<i>you find yourself in a bygone time,
another world.</i>

602
01:08:11,083 --> 01:08:13,958
<i>The clock has turned back
a half a century,</i>

603
01:08:14,042 --> 01:08:16,708
<i>and you're in the main square
of a small American town.</i>

604
01:08:16,792 --> 01:08:19,208
<i>The year: 1900.</i>

605
01:08:27,458 --> 01:08:32,042
{\an8}I was just one of the sweaty people
trying to find our way through the...

606
01:08:32,125 --> 01:08:34,375
{\an8}Oh, it was a rat maze down there.

607
01:08:36,625 --> 01:08:40,083
Everybody had been out
celebrating a little the night before,

608
01:08:41,167 --> 01:08:43,375
so there were more than a few hangovers.

609
01:08:44,292 --> 01:08:46,292
It was not the best of all days.

610
01:08:50,625 --> 01:08:53,708
{\an8}Most people remember
the opening day as a total disaster,

611
01:08:53,792 --> 01:08:57,417
{\an8}because they had almost twice
as many people as they had planned for,

612
01:08:57,500 --> 01:09:02,250
they ran out of food... Almost every
imaginable thing that could, went wrong.

613
01:09:05,458 --> 01:09:09,292
{\an8}Women had to wear high heels
all the time and hose in hot weather,

614
01:09:09,375 --> 01:09:11,583
{\an8}like the beginning... opening of Disneyland.

615
01:09:11,667 --> 01:09:13,583
{\an8}It was, uh, a ferocious day.

616
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,625
But you had to give Walt credit

617
01:09:16,708 --> 01:09:20,125
for a most impressive idea,
all the way.

618
01:09:20,208 --> 01:09:22,292
You couldn't knock a man
who thought like that.

619
01:09:27,042 --> 01:09:29,167
All activity on Main Street has ceased.

620
01:09:32,625 --> 01:09:36,583
Walt Disney will step forward
to read the dedication of Disneyland.

621
01:09:36,667 --> 01:09:39,667
Yay!

622
01:09:40,500 --> 01:09:41,833
Yay!

623
01:09:43,542 --> 01:09:46,750
To all who come
to this happy place, welcome.

624
01:09:47,750 --> 01:09:49,542
Disneyland is your land.

625
01:09:50,375 --> 01:09:52,875
Here, age relives
fond memories of the past.

626
01:09:53,750 --> 01:09:57,167
And here, youth may savor
the challenge and promise of the future.

627
01:09:57,917 --> 01:10:01,375
Disneyland is dedicated
to the ideals, the dreams,

628
01:10:01,458 --> 01:10:03,583
and the hard facts
that have created America

629
01:10:04,167 --> 01:10:09,417
with the hope that it will be a source
of joy and inspiration to all the world.

630
01:10:09,500 --> 01:10:10,500
Thank you.

631
01:10:31,083 --> 01:10:34,167
Standing here has been one of the most
exciting moments of my life.

632
01:10:34,250 --> 01:10:38,458
I think, ladies and gentlemen, that anyone
who's been here today will say,

633
01:10:38,542 --> 01:10:42,458
as the people did many years ago when they
were at the opening of the Eiffel Tower,

634
01:10:42,542 --> 01:10:43,542
"I was there."

635
01:10:43,625 --> 01:10:46,792
I'm very proud to say
I was at the opening of Disneyland.

636
01:10:46,875 --> 01:10:49,750
It's a fabulous thing to happen,
ladies and gentlemen.

637
01:10:59,917 --> 01:11:04,792
{\an8}We didn't lack faith in the idea
that it was going to be something good.

638
01:11:04,875 --> 01:11:08,583
{\an8}It was other people that were sure
that it was not going to be a success.

639
01:11:08,667 --> 01:11:12,792
I don't think it was true with the people
in the creative departments.

640
01:11:23,083 --> 01:11:29,458
{\an8}Walt, he says, "All I want is that
when people walk through or ride through

641
01:11:29,542 --> 01:11:33,333
or have access to anything
that you design,

642
01:11:33,417 --> 01:11:37,583
I want them, when they leave,
to have a smile on their face."

643
01:11:37,667 --> 01:11:43,500
And he says, "You just remember that,
and that's all I ask of you as a designer.

644
01:11:46,458 --> 01:11:50,208
Make it pretty, but make it
so that the people come out smiling."

645
01:11:57,542 --> 01:12:00,833
{\an8}The press was not very
complimentary to the... of our opening,

646
01:12:00,917 --> 01:12:03,250
{\an8}but that's part of the cost
of this business,

647
01:12:03,333 --> 01:12:05,125
{\an8}of being in show business in Hollywood.

648
01:12:05,208 --> 01:12:07,875
And that is, they're looking
for any kind of little cracks

649
01:12:07,958 --> 01:12:10,833
or any kind of things they can magnify.

650
01:12:17,875 --> 01:12:21,083
Right now, it's my pleasure
to introduce the lovely lady

651
01:12:21,167 --> 01:12:25,792
and famous star who Mr. Disney
has asked to christen the <i>Mark Twain.</i>

652
01:12:25,875 --> 01:12:27,750
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Irene Dunne.

653
01:12:29,208 --> 01:12:31,000
- Hello, Irene.
- Hello. How are you?

654
01:12:31,083 --> 01:12:32,542
My, it's listing.

655
01:12:32,625 --> 01:12:35,917
It's listing a little
because it'll be shoving off in a moment.

656
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:40,083
And there the boat is christened,
and it starts on its daily trips

657
01:12:40,167 --> 01:12:44,250
up and down the rivers of the world.
Of America, that is.

658
01:12:44,333 --> 01:12:46,458
- Thank you, Miss Dunne.
- Have a good journey.

659
01:12:46,542 --> 01:12:49,792
And now, ladies and
gentlemen, I've got other places to go.

660
01:12:49,875 --> 01:12:53,167
And the commodore, Admiral Joe Fowler,
up there in the wheelhouse.

661
01:12:53,250 --> 01:12:55,417
Looks like they're getting ready
to shove off, so I better...

662
01:12:55,500 --> 01:12:58,917
Goodbye, Irene.
Goodbye, everybody. Have a good ride.

663
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:00,958
There goes the whistle.

664
01:13:02,208 --> 01:13:03,708
Take her away, Admiral.

665
01:13:04,375 --> 01:13:05,375
Bye.

666
01:13:31,667 --> 01:13:34,208
<i>Before our preview of Tomorrowland,</i>

667
01:13:34,292 --> 01:13:36,958
<i>I'd like to read
these few words of dedication.</i>

668
01:13:37,458 --> 01:13:42,417
<i>"A vista into a world of wondrous ideas,
signifying man's achievement.</i>

669
01:13:42,500 --> 01:13:46,667
A step into the future, with predictions
of constructive things to come.

670
01:13:47,417 --> 01:13:52,042
Tomorrow offers new frontiers
in science, adventure and ideals.

671
01:13:52,125 --> 01:13:54,875
<i>The atomic age,
the challenge of outer space</i>

672
01:13:54,958 --> 01:13:59,083
<i>and the hope
for a peaceful and unified world."</i>

673
01:14:05,875 --> 01:14:07,917
Those doves are,
ladies and gentlemen, I hope,

674
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,583
the harbingers of peace,
for the world of tomorrow.

675
01:14:16,333 --> 01:14:19,000
{\an8}I think it comes back
to the way people feel.

676
01:14:19,083 --> 01:14:21,292
{\an8}They feel better about themselves.

677
01:14:22,458 --> 01:14:24,375
{\an8}I think if we give people confidence,

678
01:14:24,458 --> 01:14:26,917
if we make them feel
that they can handle anything,

679
01:14:28,458 --> 01:14:31,458
it seems to me it not only
reduces their fear,

680
01:14:31,542 --> 01:14:33,000
but it makes them better people.

681
01:14:34,208 --> 01:14:35,292
And there is hope.

682
01:14:56,708 --> 01:14:58,958
Walt, you've made a bum
out of Barnum today.

683
01:14:59,042 --> 01:15:00,375
But we've got to go.

684
01:15:00,458 --> 01:15:04,125
I know, but I just want to say
a word of thanks to all the artists,

685
01:15:04,208 --> 01:15:07,375
<i>the workers and everybody
that helped make this dream come true.</i>

686
01:15:07,958 --> 01:15:09,750
<i>Let's go into Fantasyland
and have some fun.</i>

687
01:15:09,833 --> 01:15:11,500
- <i>Let's go.
- Goodbye, folks.</i>