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[train horn blowing]
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[bell chimes]
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{\an8}[Walt] 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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[airplane passing overhead]
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[Huntley] The people of this country
are about to see and hear
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a new adventure in entertainment.
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It will come upon the American scene
shortly under the title of Disneyland.
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[Kintner] Walt Disney is
the greatest creative genius
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in the entertainment business.
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He's brought new concepts to the theaters
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and entertained millions
and millions of people.
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- That was quite a build up there and, uh--
- [Kintner] You deserve it.
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Well, that's what worries me, you know?
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[whirring]
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{\an8}[Irvine] 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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[Kintner] He's now going to try his luck
on home television.
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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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[helicopter whirring]
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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}[Burns] 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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[Walt] The opening date for the park
has been set for mid-summer of 1955.
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We could never meet this deadline
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without the complete cooperation
of everyone who works here.
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{\an8}[Sklar] 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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[crickets chittering]
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[tractors rumbling]
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{\an8}[Davis] 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}[Linkletter] 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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- [interviewer laughs]
- [Linkletter] 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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[Walt] This is our progress report
from Disneyland.
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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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One of our naturalist photographers
is Stuart Jewell,
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an expert in time lapse photography.
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We don't have
these cameras up here just for fun.
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They keep a daily record of the growth
and development of Disneyland.
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Now, an ordinary camera
takes 24 pictures a second.
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But these take one picture
every 15 seconds.
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And of course, that makes things
look a lot faster on your screen.
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[film projector whirring]
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[Walt] Disneyland is divided
into four cardinal realms,
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the four different worlds from which
our television shows will originate.
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Adventureland...
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Tomorrowland...
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Fantasyland...
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and Frontierland.
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{\an8}[Irvine] 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}[Hench] 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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[motor whines]
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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}[Ryman] 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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[hums, rattles]
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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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[whirring]
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But that's Walt's problem.
If he fails, then it's his failure.
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[flies buzzing]
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[chattering]
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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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Let's take to the air.
Let's go by helicopter.
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{\an8}[Evans] 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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[helicopter whirring]
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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}[Irvine] 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}[Evans] 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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[♪ "Crazy Man Crazy" playing]
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Oh, man, that music's gone, gone ♪
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♪ When I go out and I want a treat ♪
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[apparatus whirring]
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♪ I find me a band with a solid beat ♪
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♪ Take my chick and we dance about ♪
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♪ When they start rockin'
Boy, we start to shout, we shout ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Man, that music's gone, gone ♪
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♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪
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♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪
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♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪
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♪ Go, go, go, go, go, go, go ♪
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[no audible dialogue]
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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{\an8}♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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{\an8}♪ Man, that music's gone, gone ♪
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♪ Said crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Man, that music's gone, gone ♪
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♪ They play it soft
They play it strong ♪
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♪ They play it wild
And they play it long ♪
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♪ They just keep playin'
Till the break of day ♪
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♪ To keep them rockin'
All you gotta say is ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Crazy man crazy ♪
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♪ Man, that music's gone, gone ♪
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♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪
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♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪
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♪ Go, go, go everybody ♪
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♪ Go, go, go, go, go, go, go ♪
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[♪ music ends]
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[Walt] With so much activity
and so much heavy equipment,
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there's bound to be an upset now and then.
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But the operators
take these things in stride.
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And fortunately,
we've had no serious accidents.
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[helicopter whirring]
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Here's the beginning of Main Street,
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a composite of all the small towns
in America at the turn of the century.
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Here, you can take a ride in a horsecar
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past the old town hall,
the opera house, the firehouse.
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And if you stay on to the end of the line,
you will reach the Hub of Disneyland,
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where this camera tower now stands.
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[film projector whirring]
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[tools clattering]
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{\an8}[Fowler] 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}[Albright] 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}[Walt]
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}[Fowler] 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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[metal clanking]
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[chattering]
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[thudding]
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[Hibler] In Wilmington, California,
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construction was going forward
on two steam locomotives, vintage of 1900.
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Probably the last of their type
ever to be built in the United States.
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[mechanism humming]
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{\an8}[Roy] 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}[Broggie] 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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[horn blows]
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[Hibler] Back at the studio,
the working models of our rides
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had been perfected and we were
well into construction on the real thing.
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{\an8}[Davis] 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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[Hibler] In nearby Newport,
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we were building and assembling
miniature Autopia racing cars.
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These will speed along
the Tomorrowland freeway.
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Our most difficult problem
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was to build them to fit
the varying sizes of growing youngsters.
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And to give it
that authentic real-life feeling,
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{\an8}our freeway will be patrolled
by miniature police cars.
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{\an8}[Gurr] Every job that you work on
with Walt is different,
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{\an8}and you figure out what you're gonna do
and how you're gonna do it,
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just as you get started on it.
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We had no project managers,
therefore we didn't need any coordinators.
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The Xerox machine hadn't been invented
yet, so we didn't, uh, publish anything.
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All we did was just do the work.
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Walt never gave a thought
that he was overloading people.
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[no audible dialogue]
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[Gurr] It was like, well,
okay, we're just doing it.
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So you do all this stuff sort of at once.
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You didn't dilly dally on decisions.
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And it's up to Walt
to run around and catch you,
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that it's not going the way he wants it.
That's his problem.
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[tools pounding]
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{\an8}[Albright] And there was
a lot of people that said, "He's done."
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{\an8}If it had gone down,
the studio would have gone down with it
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because everything
was tied up in the park.
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[thudding, pounding]
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{\an8}[Ridgway] They had a lot of problems
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{\an8}getting the place opened
by that opening day.
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{\an8}They dug out the Rivers of America,
and they filled it up with water one night
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and came back the next morning,
and it was totally dry.
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It was a sandy soil,
and the water just plain disappeared.
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{\an8}[Irvine] We started to experiment
with the waterway for the, uh, big river,
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{\an8}Rivers of America.
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First of all, we used, uh...
bentonite or whatever it was.
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It was a gooey thing that
was supposed to make a waterproof bottom,
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and that didn't work too well.
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{\an8}[Goff]
Everything wasn't sweetness and light
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{\an8}and beautiful during the construction.
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Walt always came down on Sunday morning,
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and he looked all around,
all over everything,
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and he... he took a couple of big sighs...
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and, uh, he turned to me
and he says, "Do you know something?"
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And he says,
"I just got some figures today."
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And he said,
"We've spent a little over half the money
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that we have to spend on this park."
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And he says, "There isn't one thing
there, or there, or there,
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but holes in the ground and piles of dirt.
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There isn't one thing that any human being
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would spend fifteen cents
to come and see."
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And he said, "I'm scared."
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And he was.
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[helicopter whirring]
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And it was-- You couldn't believe
that you spent half this--
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It seemed like
an enormous amount of money,
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and there was nothing there
that anybody would give a darn about.
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He just sat there.
He didn't say anything for long.
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And it really impressed upon me on what
responsibility was and what worry was,
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because I was worried about little things,
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about whether this was going to get done
or whether this and that...
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But this is something
that hadn't occurred to me
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because I didn't know anything about it.
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But this is what worry is,
and it was brought home to me that day.
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[film projector whirring]
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[Walt] Inside stage three nearby,
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we started construction
on a 105-foot American riverboat,
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the stern-wheeler, Mark Twain.
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Since the deck slopes
from one end to the other,
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each piece of wood
had to be individually cut and fitted.
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Constructing such a large boat
inside a building 50 miles from water
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caused a lot of raised eyebrows.
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But unlike the fellow who built a boat
in his basement and couldn't get it out,
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we had a plan.
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Well, we fooled nearly everyone,
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for it was designed to come apart
in sections for shipping.
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{\an8}[Fowler] Walt, right from the beginning,
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{\an8}made up his mind
that he would have something different.
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{\an8}He would have the concept
of a family amusement park.
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And, uh, we were highly criticized
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at the beginning by some of the old-time
operators of amusement parks,
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because of spending too much money,
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going into too much, uh, detail.
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[whirring]
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{\an8}[Cottrell] Before the park opened,
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{\an8}we went to various
key amusement parks in the country
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and manufacturers to see if they
would be interested in manufacturing
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things that we had designed.
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Almost invariably,
the manufacturers would say,
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"Well, that would be pretty hard to do.
Why don't you buy one of our things?"
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So there's the typical
amusement park ride for sale.
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But, with Walt, we can't do this.
329
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And so these beautiful things
were all made and they were not practical,
330
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and he knew they were not practical.
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[chattering]
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[rattling]
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{\an8}[Walt] The idea for a Disneyland
lay dormant all those years.
334
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{\an8}It came along when I was taking
my kids around to these kiddie parks.
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And I'd take them around, we used to
go out every Saturday and Sunday.
336
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Their mother wouldn't go with us.
We'd be gone.
337
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I took them to zoos.
I took them everywhere.
338
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And, uh, they used to love
to go with me in those days,
339
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and it was some of
the happiest days of my life.
340
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{\an8}[Miller] All my life I heard him
talk about doing this kind of a park.
341
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{\an8}And as the years went on,
from the time I was five
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and until he finally did it when I was 21,
343
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the dream just grew.
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From this very humble little thing,
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that maybe would be
contained on the studio lot,
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to something quite grand.
347
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I think everyone thought he was crazy
348
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like they did when he said he wanted
to do a feature-length cartoon.
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[chattering]
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{\an8}[Evans]
You have to look at this in some respects
351
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{\an8}as a kind of a... it was a huge experiment.
352
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This was the genesis of that kind of park.
353
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What Walt started out to do,
for heaven's sake,
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was to do something as radically different
from Coney Island as he could dream up.
355
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{\an8}[Irvine] Walt knew everything
that went into that park.
356
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{\an8}He knew where every pipe was.
357
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{\an8}The only thing that he didn't realize,
and it was hard for him to learn,
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the necessity of building concrete.
359
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He thought we could build it like
a motion picture set on a temporary basis.
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So he never got over and was awfully mad
at the Adventureland waterfall,
361
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because of all the concrete
that went into it.
362
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[Hibler] Up river,
other workmen were just as busy
363
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solving the problem
of how to build a rock.
364
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Creating beautiful rock formations
is nothing for Mother Nature,
365
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but it wasn't so easy for us.
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[chattering]
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{\an8}[Goff] I was supposed to look
at the cost sheets...
368
00:32:17,625 --> 00:32:19,042
{\an8}[chuckling] ...when they came in every day,
369
00:32:19,125 --> 00:32:23,542
{\an8}but I had never...
I failed arithmetic in high school.
370
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And I didn't know whether
we were in the black or in the red,
371
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but if nobody had come over
372
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and said you were running over,
I didn't say anything.
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And Walt would come in, and he'd say,
"How much money have you spent so far?"
374
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And I'd say, "Let me see."
And he'd say, "I'll tell ya."
375
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And he'd tell me exactly.
376
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{\an8}[Gurr] When Disneyland
was under construction,
377
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{\an8}there were so many people at the studio
378
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{\an8}all working on this crazy idea
for an amusement park.
379
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In one way, it seemed crazy, in another
way, it seemed completely natural.
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[horn honking]
381
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We really didn't have, what you would say,
administrative offices.
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We just had people everywhere.
383
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[♪ "Tweedle Dee" playing]
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♪ Tweedlee tweedlee tweedlee dee ♪
385
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♪ I'm as happy as can be... ♪
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{\an8}[Gurr] You kind of hated to go home
at the end of the day because, oh, gosh,
387
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{\an8}you'd have to go home and go to bed
and then get up the next morning
388
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and drive all the way back
and keep going again.
389
00:33:41,583 --> 00:33:44,958
So it was kind of an inconvenience
to stop and have to go home.
390
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♪ Tweedlee tweedlee tweedlee dot ♪
391
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{\an8}♪ How you gonna keep that honey you got? ♪
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♪ Hunkies, hunkies fishes bite
I'm gonna see my honey tonight ♪
393
00:34:02,625 --> 00:34:06,500
♪ Tweedlee tweedlee tweedlee dot ♪
394
00:34:08,083 --> 00:34:12,125
♪ Tweedlee dum, tweedlee dum ♪
395
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♪ Give it up, give it up
Give your love to me... ♪
396
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[♪ song ends]
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[Hibler]
Well, here we are inside Disneyland.
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Yes, we're in the park, all right,
399
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but we haven't left our problems
behind at the studio.
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We're just concentrating
a lot of them in one place here.
401
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{\an8}[Irvine] When we started out,
Walt didn't know how to read a plan
402
00:34:59,167 --> 00:35:01,875
{\an8}and he would never say so.
403
00:35:03,042 --> 00:35:05,208
But we used to try and fool him about it,
404
00:35:05,292 --> 00:35:08,625
so it wasn't soon
until he not only could read a plan,
405
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
406
00:35:13,292 --> 00:35:14,667
than any of us did,
407
00:35:14,750 --> 00:35:16,625
because he knew exactly what he wanted
408
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in a way of scaled down
version of Main Street.
409
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{\an8}[Fowler] We built Disneyland with probably
not 10% of the plans to start with.
410
00:35:35,125 --> 00:35:37,292
{\an8}The plans were developed as we went along.
411
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[tools pounding]
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{\an8}[Evans] I think Walt was convinced
413
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{\an8}that if his guests
were exposed to good taste,
414
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good quality, good design,
415
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they would sort of
subconsciously perceive this
416
00:36:10,667 --> 00:36:14,333
not as a consequence
of being educated in landscape design
417
00:36:14,417 --> 00:36:16,250
or in architecture or anything else,
418
00:36:16,333 --> 00:36:20,542
but they would, subconsciously,
know the difference between good and bad.
419
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{\an8}[Shellhorn] They were bringing in
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00:36:33,917 --> 00:36:38,625
{\an8}various landscape architects
to do different projects,
421
00:36:38,708 --> 00:36:44,875
and then Walt Disney became worried
that, because so many people were in it,
422
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it wouldn't hang together,
and so that's the way I started.
423
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So, I made a plan
of the Main Street and the Hub.
424
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And they called a meeting
of all the art directors,
425
00:37:01,625 --> 00:37:04,750
and Walt was there, and they approved it.
426
00:37:09,375 --> 00:37:13,167
Roy Disney said,
"Don't ever bother him with a problem.
427
00:37:13,250 --> 00:37:17,500
If you have a problem, come to us."
[laughs] "Let him dream."
428
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So, every Saturday he would come down
429
00:37:24,958 --> 00:37:29,292
and we'd go around
with all the art directors
430
00:37:29,375 --> 00:37:34,875
and he would have new ideas
of something to be done.
431
00:37:36,792 --> 00:37:39,000
And he did, he wanted to
start it Monday morning.
432
00:37:39,083 --> 00:37:41,292
He didn't want plans Monday morning.
433
00:37:42,375 --> 00:37:45,458
So, many weekends, I'd work till midnight
434
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:52,833
getting out sketches or something
and that's the way it went.
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{\an8}[Linkletter]
The thing that I remember about it is,
436
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{\an8}while Walt had a temper
and he could demand things to be done
437
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{\an8}because he expected
everybody to do what he did.
438
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[film projector whirring]
439
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{\an8}[Fowler] In, uh, Disneyland,
we had very acute problems there.
440
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I was advised by two or three
of my major assistants.
441
00:39:21,667 --> 00:39:24,833
Under no circumstances
should we try to continue to open in July.
442
00:39:24,917 --> 00:39:27,083
We should postpone until September.
443
00:39:27,958 --> 00:39:29,292
But we said no.
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[chattering]
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[engine rumbling]
446
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[Fowler] It was so important,
in the minds of the public,
447
00:39:39,625 --> 00:39:41,750
we were going to open in July,
448
00:39:43,417 --> 00:39:44,500
and as a matter of fact,
449
00:39:44,583 --> 00:39:48,292
if we had waited until September with all
of our problems financially and so forth,
450
00:39:48,375 --> 00:39:50,792
we might never have gotten off the ground.
451
00:39:57,750 --> 00:39:59,583
[chattering]
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{\an8}[Broggie] It was a learning process
all the way through,
453
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{\an8}and the thing I liked
the most about those days
454
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{\an8}was it was a great thing
to have somebody say, "Well, let's do it."
455
00:41:47,167 --> 00:41:48,667
[Hibler] By now, all over the studio,
456
00:41:48,750 --> 00:41:52,292
hammers and saws were quickly
being replaced by paint and brushes
457
00:41:52,375 --> 00:41:53,917
for the deadline was drawing near.
458
00:41:54,833 --> 00:41:58,708
The hurry-up, paint-up,
finish-up campaign began in earnest.
459
00:42:14,667 --> 00:42:16,542
{\an8}[Hench] Well, it seems
as if there's always pressure.
460
00:42:16,625 --> 00:42:19,708
{\an8}I suppose it's part of the nature,
I guess, of show business.
461
00:42:20,833 --> 00:42:22,542
{\an8}And, of course, part of it is opportunity
462
00:42:22,625 --> 00:42:25,542
and part of it
is sensing the moment has come.
463
00:42:26,458 --> 00:42:29,958
And, Walt being the intuitive man he was,
464
00:42:30,042 --> 00:42:32,917
of course,
sensed it was the time for this.
465
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:35,792
And he did put pressure
on us and we did do it.
466
00:43:04,250 --> 00:43:06,417
{\an8}[Ryman] This was our big bugaboo.
467
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:09,500
{\an8}What were you gonna do
with this Tomorrowland?
468
00:43:09,583 --> 00:43:10,625
{\an8}We had to have it.
469
00:43:11,208 --> 00:43:16,917
You couldn't say we didn't want it.
And we struggled so hard.
470
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,917
[chattering]
471
00:43:44,417 --> 00:43:48,375
{\an8}[Ryman] One day, Walt and I
drove down together to Disneyland
472
00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:50,792
{\an8}and he said, "Well..." he said,
"Herbie..." he said,
473
00:43:50,875 --> 00:43:54,125
{\an8}"You know the worst thing
that could happen to us, don't you?"
474
00:43:55,208 --> 00:43:58,375
And I said, "Well, what do you mean
the worst thing that could happen?"
475
00:43:58,458 --> 00:44:04,417
He said, "Well, the worst thing that
could happen would be that I'd go broke."
476
00:44:05,958 --> 00:44:08,792
And I said,
"Yeah, I guess that would be pretty bad."
477
00:44:08,875 --> 00:44:10,958
And he said, "Well..." he said,
478
00:44:11,042 --> 00:44:17,042
"I've been broke five times in my life
and one more won't hurt."
479
00:44:39,875 --> 00:44:42,292
[machinery ticking, humming]
480
00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:51,458
{\an8}[Hench] If your team is sympathetic
and you all have the same goals,
481
00:44:51,542 --> 00:44:53,208
{\an8}why, you arrive at something
482
00:44:53,292 --> 00:44:56,042
{\an8}that's greater
than the sum of the parts, of course.
483
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:03,708
And, uh, I think it's well known
that this kind of thing works that way.
484
00:45:03,792 --> 00:45:06,542
You build a kind of an enthusiasm
and you share something.
485
00:45:06,625 --> 00:45:10,250
Sometimes it becomes a little ridiculous
and you just end up with fun.
486
00:45:10,333 --> 00:45:15,708
But most of the time, you turn over
things by a mutual stimulation
487
00:45:15,792 --> 00:45:20,375
that, uh...
that you'd never arrived at by yourself.
488
00:45:24,708 --> 00:45:29,792
Walt was a... was a real master
at provoking that type of atmosphere.
489
00:45:59,792 --> 00:46:00,792
[Walt] Here on the shores,
490
00:46:00,875 --> 00:46:03,583
we come upon the realm
of the creatures of the Serengeti plains.
491
00:46:04,458 --> 00:46:06,917
Towering above them all, the giraffe.
492
00:46:08,083 --> 00:46:11,000
To reproduce these animals
requires the combined efforts
493
00:46:11,083 --> 00:46:14,458
of the finest designers,
sculptors and master mechanics.
494
00:47:01,042 --> 00:47:04,792
{\an8}[Goff] I was determined
that I was gonna have the first ride
495
00:47:04,875 --> 00:47:08,667
{\an8}when the first boat
got in the ride with water in it.
496
00:47:08,750 --> 00:47:12,958
I was gonna ride first
and find out if the person got wet...
497
00:47:15,250 --> 00:47:19,958
because I had conceived the idea
of going behind the waterfall.
498
00:47:43,750 --> 00:47:47,375
So I went slow around
and looked at everything,
499
00:47:47,458 --> 00:47:49,792
and looked back
to see the clearance and everything.
500
00:47:49,875 --> 00:47:53,125
And, uh, as I started under the waterfall,
I got right in it.
501
00:47:53,208 --> 00:47:55,667
And then I looked back
to see where the stern was...
502
00:47:55,750 --> 00:47:57,667
[chuckling]
...and there was Walt sitting there.
503
00:47:58,208 --> 00:47:59,583
My heart stopped beating.
504
00:47:59,667 --> 00:48:03,542
I was clear through the waterfall
before I came to.
505
00:48:04,375 --> 00:48:10,042
He stepped on board very carefully,
just as I left, and I didn't know it.
506
00:48:17,708 --> 00:48:22,167
[announcer] Presenting this week,
the pre-opening report from Disneyland.
507
00:48:26,375 --> 00:48:28,500
In our first television show last year,
508
00:48:28,583 --> 00:48:33,333
we described to you our hopes
and plans for a place called Disneyland.
509
00:48:33,417 --> 00:48:36,042
A few months ago, in a progress report,
510
00:48:36,125 --> 00:48:38,833
we showed you
the actual start of construction.
511
00:48:40,583 --> 00:48:44,292
In our mail recently, a lot of you
have shown interest in our progress.
512
00:48:44,375 --> 00:48:46,917
And so this week,
just a matter of days away
513
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,000
from the formal opening of Disneyland,
514
00:48:49,083 --> 00:48:51,500
we want to bring you up to date
on what's been happening,
515
00:48:51,583 --> 00:48:56,875
and let you share with us the joys
and anxieties of our race against time.
516
00:48:58,208 --> 00:49:02,042
In this, our final report
on building a Disneyland,
517
00:49:02,125 --> 00:49:06,125
I want to pay tribute to the many
studio artists, craftsmen and engineers
518
00:49:06,208 --> 00:49:10,500
whose untiring efforts
helped bring this dream to a reality.
519
00:49:11,625 --> 00:49:15,792
Without their skills and imagination,
Disneyland would not have been possible.
520
00:49:24,417 --> 00:49:27,458
{\an8}[Linkletter]
Those last few days were frantic.
521
00:49:28,708 --> 00:49:33,667
{\an8}I saw gardeners spraying bushes
and flowers and things with paint
522
00:49:33,750 --> 00:49:35,000
because they had died.
523
00:49:35,083 --> 00:49:41,083
So, instead of with water,
they were painting grass, bushes, trees.
524
00:49:58,875 --> 00:50:01,083
{\an8}[Nunis] Prior to the opening,
there was a plumbing strike.
525
00:50:01,667 --> 00:50:06,167
{\an8}So, the decision was, should we have
drinking fountains or restrooms,
526
00:50:06,250 --> 00:50:09,208
because there literally
wasn't enough time to get both done.
527
00:50:09,292 --> 00:50:13,292
And Walt said, "Well, you know,
we've gotta have restrooms.
528
00:50:14,250 --> 00:50:17,958
And people can drink Coke and Pepsi,
but they can't pee in the street."
529
00:50:32,208 --> 00:50:35,125
{\an8}[Martin]
We had a gas leak under the castle,
530
00:50:35,208 --> 00:50:39,500
{\an8}and you could see little blue flames
coming all around the perimeter
531
00:50:39,583 --> 00:50:41,333
and the foundation of the castle.
532
00:50:44,833 --> 00:50:47,417
I was unaware of this,
of course, at the time, but...
533
00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:51,375
So I was smoking my pipe as usual,
and walking up from the Hub.
534
00:50:52,833 --> 00:50:56,625
All of a sudden, the fire chief at
the time came running out and grabbed me.
535
00:50:56,708 --> 00:50:59,083
We waltzed
all the way back down to the Hub.
536
00:50:59,167 --> 00:51:01,375
He said,
"Don't you know there's a fire out there?"
537
00:51:01,458 --> 00:51:03,167
He figured I'd blow up the castle.
538
00:51:36,458 --> 00:51:39,292
[motor whirring]
539
00:51:40,958 --> 00:51:42,792
[thudding]
540
00:51:44,208 --> 00:51:46,750
[apparatus grinding]
541
00:52:16,458 --> 00:52:19,000
[no audible dialogue]
542
00:52:19,083 --> 00:52:22,125
{\an8}[Irvine] Well, the pressures
were tremendous on everybody.
543
00:52:22,208 --> 00:52:26,917
{\an8}We all lived down there, and we worked
from early morning to late at night.
544
00:52:47,042 --> 00:52:49,375
{\an8}We were on a 48-hour week.
545
00:52:49,458 --> 00:52:53,000
{\an8}Walt used to come over on Saturday,
and we'd all go to lunch together
546
00:52:53,083 --> 00:52:56,458
and come back and work some more,
and he was right on top of us.
547
00:53:00,125 --> 00:53:02,708
{\an8}[Martin] As far as the opening period,
it was very hectic.
548
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.
549
00:53:10,083 --> 00:53:13,667
We did all our last drawings, uh,
on the second floor of the City Hall there
550
00:53:13,750 --> 00:53:15,542
and were right on the spot.
551
00:53:17,375 --> 00:53:22,042
{\an8}[Linkletter] It was just like
a great big panic all the time.
552
00:53:22,750 --> 00:53:24,292
{\an8}It was a miracle that it ever went on.
553
00:53:24,375 --> 00:53:28,167
And just as it was a miracle
that Disneyland ever got opened on date.
554
00:53:28,250 --> 00:53:31,500
[♪ uplifting music playing]
555
00:53:52,958 --> 00:53:55,083
- [film projector whirring]
- [♪ music fades]
556
00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:02,500
[♪ hopeful music playing]
557
00:54:40,583 --> 00:54:44,458
{\an8}[Walt] People, uh, looked at me
in many ways and said,
558
00:54:44,542 --> 00:54:48,250
{\an8}"Well, I mean, look,
the guy has no regard for money."
559
00:54:48,333 --> 00:54:50,875
That's not true. I have regard for money.
560
00:54:55,167 --> 00:54:56,958
There's some people
that sit and worship money
561
00:54:57,042 --> 00:55:00,375
as something you've got to have
piled up in a big pile somewhere.
562
00:55:01,208 --> 00:55:05,333
I've only thought of money in one way.
And that is to do something.
563
00:55:08,833 --> 00:55:13,417
I don't think there's a thing that
I own that I'll ever get the benefit of,
564
00:55:13,500 --> 00:55:15,375
except through doing things with it.
565
00:55:48,958 --> 00:55:51,125
{\an8}[Linkletter] "We were learners,"
Walt said,
566
00:55:51,208 --> 00:55:53,708
{\an8}"and I didn't have enough money
to do any more than that.
567
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."
568
00:56:01,833 --> 00:56:04,292
There were delays by suppliers,
569
00:56:04,375 --> 00:56:08,417
and there were breakdowns
and threatened strikes.
570
00:56:09,458 --> 00:56:11,458
[machinery rattling]
571
00:56:13,625 --> 00:56:18,958
[Linkletter] But Walt was daring. He put
everything on the line, and his beliefs.
572
00:56:20,167 --> 00:56:21,958
How many guys would do that?
573
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,167
[ship horn blows]
574
00:56:41,250 --> 00:56:42,292
{\an8}[Broggie] Tenth of July,
575
00:56:42,375 --> 00:56:45,375
{\an8}we had a party at Disneyland.
576
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.
577
00:56:49,750 --> 00:56:52,083
And also, the riverboat ran that day.
578
00:57:20,625 --> 00:57:23,375
[all cheering]
579
00:57:46,292 --> 00:57:48,292
- [♪ music continues]
- [bell tolling]
580
00:58:13,250 --> 00:58:15,667
[whistle blows]
581
00:59:02,250 --> 00:59:04,417
[whistle blows]
582
00:59:19,500 --> 00:59:21,542
[train rattling]
583
00:59:36,417 --> 00:59:37,875
{\an8}[Irvine] Walt was living down there,
584
00:59:37,958 --> 00:59:40,083
{\an8}and he was out there early, early morning,
585
00:59:40,167 --> 00:59:42,125
{\an8}seeing how everything was going.
586
00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:47,625
Just before opening, we...
587
00:59:47,708 --> 00:59:49,333
Tomorrowland wasn't finished,
588
00:59:49,417 --> 00:59:52,333
and we had to get in
and do a quick and dirty dressing job.
589
01:00:07,167 --> 01:00:13,042
{\an8}[Joerger] Before Disneyland opened,
everything was in utter turmoil.
590
01:00:15,167 --> 01:00:18,917
And in Tomorrowland,
we had these big buildings on both sides,
591
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,542
but nothing in them.
592
01:00:42,583 --> 01:00:44,458
[announcer] We hope you all
will be listening and watching
593
01:00:44,542 --> 01:00:46,500
next Sunday, July 17th,
594
01:00:46,583 --> 01:00:49,292
when we present
the formal opening of Disneyland,
595
01:00:49,375 --> 01:00:52,333
in an hour-and-a-half show
over most of these stations.
596
01:01:01,542 --> 01:01:03,625
[film projector whirring]
597
01:01:08,542 --> 01:01:11,250
[announcer] These are just some
of the sites that ABC undertook
598
01:01:11,333 --> 01:01:15,750
to show a waiting nation
on the world's largest live telecast.
599
01:01:23,292 --> 01:01:26,125
It all started
when Mr. Kintner said to Mr. Disney,
600
01:01:26,208 --> 01:01:30,125
"How about ABC televising
the opening of Disneyland?"
601
01:01:30,208 --> 01:01:32,667
Mr. Disney thought it was a fine idea.
602
01:01:33,917 --> 01:01:36,083
After all the preliminary planning,
603
01:01:36,167 --> 01:01:38,667
the camera crew
started rehearsing their moves.
604
01:01:40,833 --> 01:01:43,833
Calls were sent out all over the nation,
rounding up equipment.
605
01:01:43,917 --> 01:01:48,583
Getting 85,000 feet of cable,
including 16,000 feet of coaxial,
606
01:01:48,667 --> 01:01:50,833
was no easy task in itself.
607
01:01:54,042 --> 01:01:56,458
Thirteen hydraulic forklifts
were brought in
608
01:01:56,542 --> 01:01:59,250
and were set about building
special camera platforms
609
01:01:59,333 --> 01:02:01,042
and mounting them onto these lifts.
610
01:02:01,542 --> 01:02:04,083
{\an8}The forklift operators
had to be rehearsed.
611
01:02:04,167 --> 01:02:07,417
{\an8}There was always the danger
they wouldn't stop the lifts in time
612
01:02:07,500 --> 01:02:09,750
and pull the cables out of the cameras.
613
01:02:40,958 --> 01:02:46,083
{\an8}[Broggie] My work at the time
was getting Casey Jr. running.
614
01:02:48,042 --> 01:02:50,500
And I was testing it before opening,
615
01:02:50,583 --> 01:02:55,542
{\an8}and the train started up
to the first lift and started going over.
616
01:02:56,250 --> 01:03:00,000
We shut the ride down, of course,
to find out why this happened.
617
01:03:00,083 --> 01:03:03,375
We discovered, well, there was
no safety rail around the track,
618
01:03:03,458 --> 01:03:06,083
so we couldn't open the ride.
619
01:03:06,167 --> 01:03:10,125
But I was to run the locomotive once
around the track for the TV show.
620
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,000
[chattering]
621
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,000
[exclaiming, chattering]
622
01:03:53,542 --> 01:03:55,750
[singing indistinctly]
623
01:04:09,125 --> 01:04:11,042
[announcer]
All the time we were trying to rehearse,
624
01:04:11,125 --> 01:04:13,125
the workmen
were still building Disneyland.
625
01:04:16,500 --> 01:04:20,917
Another one of our small problems.
That's asphalt, not sand.
626
01:04:21,833 --> 01:04:23,750
We did manage to get some work done,
627
01:04:23,833 --> 01:04:26,792
in spite of all the frantic
last-minute construction,
628
01:04:26,875 --> 01:04:28,708
and men and material and trucks
629
01:04:28,792 --> 01:04:31,917
kept passing through
in a frantic effort to finish on time.
630
01:04:34,833 --> 01:04:37,500
This kept rehearsal
virtually at a standstill.
631
01:04:59,958 --> 01:05:03,417
[chattering]
632
01:05:16,042 --> 01:05:19,125
[announcer] Just before showtime,
the last preparations were being made.
633
01:05:19,208 --> 01:05:24,708
And then, ready,
Fantasyland, Frontierland,
634
01:05:24,792 --> 01:05:28,875
Adventureland, Main Street, Tomorrowland.
635
01:05:29,708 --> 01:05:34,333
Stand by. Five seconds.
And here's the show.
636
01:05:34,417 --> 01:05:35,750
[♪ "When You Wish Upon a Star" plays]
637
01:05:35,833 --> 01:05:41,250
♪ When you wish upon a star ♪
638
01:05:41,333 --> 01:05:47,208
♪ Makes no difference who you are ♪
639
01:05:47,917 --> 01:05:49,875
[Weaver] How do you do, everyone?
This is Hank Weaver.
640
01:05:49,958 --> 01:05:52,792
For the past year,
this signature has announced
641
01:05:52,875 --> 01:05:55,208
the opening of Disneyland, the show.
642
01:05:55,292 --> 01:05:58,542
Now it announces
the opening of Disneyland, the place.
643
01:05:59,583 --> 01:06:01,250
The people and eyes around the world
644
01:06:01,333 --> 01:06:05,833
are focused on these 160 acres
here in Anaheim, California.
645
01:06:05,917 --> 01:06:10,125
This afternoon, Disneyland,
the world's most fabulous kingdom,
646
01:06:10,208 --> 01:06:14,667
will be unveiled before an invitational
world premiere, and you, our guests.
647
01:06:42,792 --> 01:06:46,542
And to start the proceedings,
we take you to the entrance of Disneyland
648
01:06:46,625 --> 01:06:48,667
and your host, Art Linkletter.
649
01:06:50,250 --> 01:06:52,542
[Linkletter] I'm standing here
on the railroad tracks,
650
01:06:52,625 --> 01:06:56,167
and I'm in front of the big Disneyland
and Santa Fe railroad station,
651
01:06:56,250 --> 01:06:59,875
and down these tracks in just a couple
of seconds will come Walt Disney himself,
652
01:06:59,958 --> 01:07:04,250
barreling in on a railroad train
built to 5/8th miniature size.
653
01:07:06,792 --> 01:07:08,583
{\an8}[whistle blows]
654
01:07:22,625 --> 01:07:23,917
How did the run go?
655
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:25,250
Oh, fine. Fine.
656
01:07:25,333 --> 01:07:26,917
The governor had her around
till Frontierland
657
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,167
and then Fred Gurley there,
he took her round.
658
01:07:29,250 --> 01:07:31,333
I picked her up and brought her in.
Highballing in, boys.
659
01:07:31,417 --> 01:07:33,542
- Hello, Governor.
- Hello. Glad to see you, Art.
660
01:07:33,625 --> 01:07:35,792
Governor Knight of California,
ladies and gentlemen,
661
01:07:35,875 --> 01:07:39,583
and Walt Disney, of course, and
Mr. Gurley, the President of the Santa Fe.
662
01:07:39,667 --> 01:07:42,375
And of the Santa Fe
and Disneyland, if you please.
663
01:07:42,458 --> 01:07:43,583
That's right.
664
01:07:53,333 --> 01:07:55,000
Thousands are coming in.
665
01:07:55,083 --> 01:07:59,792
They're going through the magic tunnel
on foot because no car can enter here.
666
01:08:01,292 --> 01:08:03,125
And, like Alice in Wonderland,
667
01:08:03,208 --> 01:08:07,208
as you go on through that tunnel
past the Disneyland Santa Fe,
668
01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:11,000
you find yourself in a bygone time,
another world.
669
01:08:11,083 --> 01:08:13,958
The clock has turned back
a half a century,
670
01:08:14,042 --> 01:08:16,708
and you're in the main square
of a small American town.
671
01:08:16,792 --> 01:08:19,208
The year: 1900.
672
01:08:27,458 --> 01:08:32,042
{\an8}[Roy] I was just one of the sweaty people
trying to find our way through the...
673
01:08:32,125 --> 01:08:34,375
{\an8}Oh, it was a rat maze down there.
674
01:08:36,625 --> 01:08:40,083
Everybody had been out
celebrating a little the night before,
675
01:08:41,167 --> 01:08:43,375
so there were more than a few hangovers.
676
01:08:44,292 --> 01:08:46,292
It was not the best of all days.
677
01:08:46,375 --> 01:08:48,708
[chattering]
678
01:08:50,625 --> 01:08:53,708
{\an8}[Ridgway] Most people remember
the opening day as a total disaster,
679
01:08:53,792 --> 01:08:57,417
{\an8}because they had almost twice
as many people as they had planned for,
680
01:08:57,500 --> 01:09:02,250
they ran out of food... Almost every
imaginable thing that could, went wrong.
681
01:09:05,458 --> 01:09:09,292
{\an8}[Burns] Women had to wear high heels
all the time and hose in hot weather,
682
01:09:09,375 --> 01:09:11,583
{\an8}like the beginning... opening of Disneyland.
683
01:09:11,667 --> 01:09:13,583
{\an8}It was, uh, a ferocious day.
684
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,625
But you had to give Walt credit
685
01:09:16,708 --> 01:09:20,125
for a most impressive idea,
all the way. [chuckles]
686
01:09:20,208 --> 01:09:22,292
You couldn't knock a man
who thought like that.
687
01:09:27,042 --> 01:09:29,167
All activity on Main Street has ceased.
688
01:09:32,625 --> 01:09:36,583
Walt Disney will step forward
to read the dedication of Disneyland.
689
01:09:36,667 --> 01:09:39,667
- [applause]
- [person] Yay!
690
01:09:40,500 --> 01:09:41,833
Yay!
691
01:09:43,542 --> 01:09:46,750
To all who come
to this happy place, welcome.
692
01:09:47,750 --> 01:09:49,542
Disneyland is your land.
693
01:09:50,375 --> 01:09:52,875
Here, age relives
fond memories of the past.
694
01:09:53,750 --> 01:09:57,167
And here, youth may savor
the challenge and promise of the future.
695
01:09:57,917 --> 01:10:01,375
Disneyland is dedicated
to the ideals, the dreams,
696
01:10:01,458 --> 01:10:03,583
and the hard facts
that have created America
697
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.
698
01:10:09,500 --> 01:10:10,500
Thank you.
699
01:10:14,208 --> 01:10:16,625
[marching band playing]
700
01:10:28,250 --> 01:10:30,042
[applause]
701
01:10:31,083 --> 01:10:34,167
Standing here has been one of the most
exciting moments of my life.
702
01:10:34,250 --> 01:10:38,458
I think, ladies and gentlemen, that anyone
who's been here today will say,
703
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,
704
01:10:42,542 --> 01:10:43,542
"I was there."
705
01:10:43,625 --> 01:10:46,792
I'm very proud to say
I was at the opening of Disneyland.
706
01:10:46,875 --> 01:10:49,750
It's a fabulous thing to happen,
ladies and gentlemen.
707
01:10:59,917 --> 01:11:04,792
{\an8}[Gibson] We didn't lack faith in the idea
that it was going to be something good.
708
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.
709
01:11:08,667 --> 01:11:12,792
I don't think it was true with the people
in the creative departments.
710
01:11:12,875 --> 01:11:14,708
[chattering]
711
01:11:23,083 --> 01:11:29,458
{\an8}[Davis] Walt, he says, "All I want is that
when people walk through or ride through
712
01:11:29,542 --> 01:11:33,333
or have access to anything
that you design,
713
01:11:33,417 --> 01:11:37,583
I want them, when they leave,
to have a smile on their face."
714
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.
715
01:11:46,458 --> 01:11:50,208
Make it pretty, but make it
so that the people come out smiling."
716
01:11:57,542 --> 01:12:00,833
{\an8}[Linkletter] The press was not very
complimentary to the... of our opening,
717
01:12:00,917 --> 01:12:03,250
{\an8}but that's part of the cost
of this business,
718
01:12:03,333 --> 01:12:05,125
{\an8}of being in show business in Hollywood.
719
01:12:05,208 --> 01:12:07,875
And that is, they're looking
for any kind of little cracks
720
01:12:07,958 --> 01:12:10,833
or any kind of things they can magnify.
721
01:12:10,917 --> 01:12:12,875
[chattering]
722
01:12:15,375 --> 01:12:17,792
[horn blows]
723
01:12:17,875 --> 01:12:21,083
[Linkletter] Right now, it's my pleasure
to introduce the lovely lady
724
01:12:21,167 --> 01:12:25,792
and famous star who Mr. Disney
has asked to christen the Mark Twain.
725
01:12:25,875 --> 01:12:27,750
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Irene Dunne.
726
01:12:29,208 --> 01:12:31,000
- Hello, Irene.
- Hello. How are you?
727
01:12:31,083 --> 01:12:32,542
My, it's listing. [chuckles]
728
01:12:32,625 --> 01:12:35,917
It's listing a little
because it'll be shoving off in a moment.
729
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:40,083
And there the boat is christened,
and it starts on its daily trips
730
01:12:40,167 --> 01:12:44,250
up and down the rivers of the world.
Of America, that is.
731
01:12:44,333 --> 01:12:46,458
- Thank you, Miss Dunne.
- [Irene] Have a good journey.
732
01:12:46,542 --> 01:12:49,792
[Linkletter] And now, ladies and
gentlemen, I've got other places to go.
733
01:12:49,875 --> 01:12:53,167
And the commodore, Admiral Joe Fowler,
up there in the wheelhouse.
734
01:12:53,250 --> 01:12:55,417
Looks like they're getting ready
to shove off, so I better...
735
01:12:55,500 --> 01:12:58,917
Goodbye, Irene.
Goodbye, everybody. Have a good ride.
736
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:00,958
- [steam whistle blows]
- There goes the whistle.
737
01:13:02,208 --> 01:13:03,708
Take her away, Admiral.
738
01:13:04,375 --> 01:13:05,375
Bye.
739
01:13:05,458 --> 01:13:07,458
[♪ uplifting music playing]
740
01:13:31,667 --> 01:13:34,208
[Walt] Before our preview of Tomorrowland,
741
01:13:34,292 --> 01:13:36,958
I'd like to read
these few words of dedication.
742
01:13:37,458 --> 01:13:42,417
"A vista into a world of wondrous ideas,
signifying man's achievement.
743
01:13:42,500 --> 01:13:46,667
A step into the future, with predictions
of constructive things to come.
744
01:13:47,417 --> 01:13:52,042
Tomorrow offers new frontiers
in science, adventure and ideals.
745
01:13:52,125 --> 01:13:54,875
The atomic age,
the challenge of outer space
746
01:13:54,958 --> 01:13:59,083
and the hope
for a peaceful and unified world."
747
01:14:05,875 --> 01:14:07,917
[Cummings] Those doves are,
ladies and gentlemen, I hope,
748
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,583
the harbingers of peace,
for the world of tomorrow.
749
01:14:16,333 --> 01:14:19,000
{\an8}[Hench] I think it comes back
to the way people feel.
750
01:14:19,083 --> 01:14:21,292
{\an8}They feel better about themselves.
751
01:14:22,458 --> 01:14:24,375
{\an8}I think if we give people confidence,
752
01:14:24,458 --> 01:14:26,917
if we make them feel
that they can handle anything,
753
01:14:28,458 --> 01:14:31,458
it seems to me it not only
reduces their fear,
754
01:14:31,542 --> 01:14:33,000
but it makes them better people.
755
01:14:34,208 --> 01:14:35,292
And there is hope.
756
01:14:35,375 --> 01:14:37,792
[♪ uplifting music continues]
757
01:14:56,708 --> 01:14:58,958
Walt, you've made a bum
out of Barnum today.
758
01:14:59,042 --> 01:15:00,375
- [laughs]
- But we've got to go.
759
01:15:00,458 --> 01:15:04,125
I know, but I just want to say
a word of thanks to all the artists,
760
01:15:04,208 --> 01:15:07,375
the workers and everybody
that helped make this dream come true.
761
01:15:07,958 --> 01:15:09,750
Let's go into Fantasyland
and have some fun.
762
01:15:09,833 --> 01:15:11,500
- [Walt] Let's go.
- [Linkletter] Goodbye, folks.
763
01:15:15,500 --> 01:15:17,333
[film projector whirring]