Disneyland Home Movies 1956-1972

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  • Опубликовано: 22 дек 2024

Комментарии • 73

  • @cammieg4381
    @cammieg4381 29 дней назад +9

    I wish my dad had skipped and held hands with us kids... Cool footage of a peek into the past!

  • @hiridavidfeign
    @hiridavidfeign Месяц назад +28

    This is probably the best amateur Disneyland footage I've ever seen. The clarity is astonishing. What a treasure. Thanks so much!

  • @MannyEmm
    @MannyEmm 23 дня назад +8

    I have been going since I was 4 in 1962. This video brings back so many beautiful memories. I love Disneyland…so much that I was a cast member for a total of 8 years..

  • @Linda-zm6lk
    @Linda-zm6lk Месяц назад +22

    As someone who didn't get to go to Disneyland until I was 19 I love seeing these old movies of families there. Love the father skipping with his children.

  • @martinjaramillo2429
    @martinjaramillo2429 Месяц назад +14

    Every family has that one person who does not mind filming or photographing and at somewhat of a cost; missing out on the total experience and meeting protest from people thinking it’s cheesy to pose for pictures. They are the unsung heroes when the photographs and memories are all that remain after many years. My hat is off to all of the photographers out there from the past, present and future. Thank you.

  • @TravelingGonad
    @TravelingGonad 25 дней назад +12

    Better quality than a lot of portrait videos people are taking today lol

  • @bobsmith4924
    @bobsmith4924 Месяц назад +18

    For historic footage ... this is about as high quality as I've seen for Disneyland. Some of the footage from the 80's and 90's is hardly watchable with VHS camcorders. Nice film!

    • @appliedengineering4001
      @appliedengineering4001 25 дней назад +3

      Yes. film was better then VHS video. Plus, AI algorithms help clean up and stabilized the images as well. The stabilization really helps because most of those home made films were shaky as hell.

  • @laxnative4622
    @laxnative4622 27 дней назад +10

    I loved the fact that back then you didn't need a high-tech light show to have a nice time together as a family. Simple and calm was so nice.

  • @MrRy2525
    @MrRy2525 29 дней назад +8

    Thanks for sharing this footage from 1956! I always dreamt of if I could time traveling, one of them was seeing the start of Disneyland. Thank you! 😊

  • @daniellanglois89
    @daniellanglois89 9 дней назад

    WOW the remastering of this is incredible. Amazing to see the early days of Disneyland like this. Thanks

  • @peterlanglois65
    @peterlanglois65 5 дней назад

    Excellent quality, very well done. Interesting to see the park so new with hardly any vegetation, and the difference in some rides like Dumbo from 1956 compared to the late 1950s.

  • @wc6783
    @wc6783 16 дней назад +1

    This is really awesome, thank you for sharing. You did a great job with modern tools to clean up the film while also maintaining the realism and not making it look like an AI mess that some remasters do.

  • @robertdavis5714
    @robertdavis5714 9 дней назад

    Incredible footage from 1956, no crowds, no people, all trees and shrubs so small, seeing the Orange orchards in distance, sure got crowed in just a few years time.

  • @ShesInLosAngeles
    @ShesInLosAngeles 29 дней назад +1

    Fantastic quality. Our family first visited in 1956 and I vividly recall that stagecoach ride. Still love this place and visit at least once a month.

  • @Bwilliams2
    @Bwilliams2 Месяц назад +3

    Thanks so much for sharing. Brings back great memories.

  • @mr.dan7144
    @mr.dan7144 Месяц назад +5

    Love the humble beginings of Disneyland. Thank you for posting.

  • @Buzzbot235
    @Buzzbot235 Месяц назад +2

    Great job on the digitizing of these. The colors are amazing!

  • @scottmckay9535
    @scottmckay9535 14 дней назад

    I went there in about 1956 at age 7. I remember the jungle ride. They shot blanks at the hippo and the guy gave me a spent cartridge. I was thrilled. Kids.

  • @NightmareNate
    @NightmareNate 17 дней назад +1

    this quality is amazing!!!! you've inspired me to start recording home movies on film, do you have any recommendations for an affordable/entry-level scanner? thank you!!

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  15 дней назад

      @NightmareNate - hello - for these I had them professionally scanned by Movette Film Transfer in San Francisco, California. They used a Lasergraphics brand ScanStation. There are lots of services online that will offer to digitize flim for pretty cheap - but a lot of those can be low quality or even damage your film. I recommend finding a shop that focuses on archival or film restoration and working with them if that's an option for you.

  • @stevenrunyon170
    @stevenrunyon170 10 дней назад +1

    I was a kid living in Anaheim CA in the 70"s and went here alot and it cost like $10 and was clean and not the shit show it is today.

  • @vasil12361
    @vasil12361 10 дней назад +2

    When Southern California was uncrowded, sure glad I got to live it.

  • @davidstjean6185
    @davidstjean6185 Месяц назад +4

    Growing up in the eighties our neighbor Frank was the guy that steered the Mark Twain boat. He was such a nice man and would sneak my brothers and friends inside whenever he could.

  • @Time.Travel
    @Time.Travel 22 дня назад

    This is truly fantastic, thank you so much.

  • @BiasedGamer
    @BiasedGamer Месяц назад +1

    Fantastic footage. Thank you for sharing!

  • @kbob1163
    @kbob1163 8 дней назад

    Great footage! Everything's so crisp and clear and the colors are vibrant. Just wanted to note, though, that the first part - the 1956 portion - is two separate visits. Up to about the 2 minute mark, we're looking at either late '55 or early '56, but after that, it's clearly the Christmas season of '56. The earlier footage shows the Dumbo ride without its center piece or the candy stripes on the arms that hold the Dumbos. And I can just make out that the theater is still the Mickey Mouse Theater - in the later footage, it has become the Mickey Mouse Club Theater. Also in the earlier footage, the Casey Jr. is traveling through some pretty barren landscape, as Storybook Land hadn't been built yet. This is the part that makes me wonder if it's actually 1955 here, since the Storybook Land construction, at least in places, would have been visible by the end of that year. The Christmas '56 footage has plenty of stuff that debuted earlier that year, like Tom Sawyer Island, Storybook Land, the Skyway, and the Rainbow Caverns Mine Train. The Dumbo centerpiece is now there, but doesn't have Timothy Mouse on the top yet, as that came along the following year.
    Also, the "late '50s" portion, assuming it's all one visit, would be 1959. The Matterhorn, Monorail and Submarine Voyage all debuted that year, but it also shows the Stage Coaches, which were retired at the end of that summer. Oddly, Timothy Mouse isn't on top of the Dumbo centerpiece here, even though it existed by this time. Perhaps it was removed for maintenance. It's also notable that the '61 footage shows the Mark I version of the Monorail, which got replaced by the Mark II version in the middle of that year. And the Mine Trains are yellow now, reflecting the switch in 1960 from the Rainbow Caverns Mine Train to Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland.

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  8 дней назад

      Thank you for the timing notes - it's quite possible the attributed times I have in the title cards are a bit off, as I'm going off labels on the developed film, and some information has likely been lost!

  • @RussMcClay
    @RussMcClay Месяц назад +1

    Nice footage. Great restoration work.

  • @RyDawg96
    @RyDawg96 15 дней назад +1

    Ugh, I hate the frame interpolation. It looks bad especially on the teacups. On the other hand, the clarity is pretty good. Which film scanner did you use?

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  15 дней назад +1

      @RyDawg96 - trust me - you'd probably hate the 16 frames per second original source even more than the interpolated view more. This was scanned professionally using a Lasergraphics brand ScanStation 5k.

  • @doobeone
    @doobeone 17 дней назад

    very cool.

  • @bencreighton8544
    @bencreighton8544 21 день назад +1

    Outstanding stuff! (I'm sure you are aware that your opening title says "Dinseyland"?)

  • @Bernstorm5000
    @Bernstorm5000 Месяц назад

    This footage is amazing. Great coverage and clearly Topaz and DaVinci were the heroes of the day. Bravo.

    • @Bernstorm5000
      @Bernstorm5000 Месяц назад +1

      Yeah... like many, I am a student of Disneyland history and have seen so many historic photos over the years. But NO footage I've ever seen illustrates what those early park years were like as vividly as this 25 minute excursion to another time.

  • @KevinNolanRealEstate
    @KevinNolanRealEstate Месяц назад +10

    Wow! Everyone looks so fit. What happened?

  • @DougUnfunny
    @DougUnfunny 27 дней назад +1

    amazing footage. I wonder if disney will contact you to maybe license the footage for future projects or documentaries.

  • @voyagerfilms
    @voyagerfilms 14 дней назад +1

    What was the cost of the digitization? I’m looking for places to send my film to be digitized

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  14 дней назад +2

      I paid around 75 cents per foot of film, and the film itself was roughly 20 feet per minute of film, which works out to around $15 per minute.

  • @Ktjeeper79
    @Ktjeeper79 28 дней назад +1

    Justin Scarred would love this! Also, the s and n in Disneyland (reads as Dinseyland) are transposed in the date cards.

    • @dirkbercks8830
      @dirkbercks8830 28 дней назад

      That was my thought. I hope he sees it. Maybe the Family is called Dinsey? 😊 They wouldn't make the same failure twice I think. Greetings from Germany, Dirk

    • @briancomiskey9824
      @briancomiskey9824 27 дней назад +1

      The "R" is for adventure.

    • @closingcrawl3913
      @closingcrawl3913 27 дней назад +2

      Oh brother... thanks for letting me know about the title transposition. Unfortunately I can't change the video once it's been uploaded. I might do some color correction on these and upload a new version - if I do that I'll fix the titles in that one!

  • @AndrewWerner-h8d
    @AndrewWerner-h8d Месяц назад +1

    Good video

  • @ThriftShopHustler
    @ThriftShopHustler 19 дней назад +1

    I wish Disneyland was that empty today. I love Disneyland but the amount of humans packed in such a small area is a big turn off for me as an older park goer.

  • @thelastchance6113
    @thelastchance6113 11 дней назад

    Wow so much of it looks unfinished and it’s interesting to see it before all the trees were fully grown

  • @BestTime-q5x
    @BestTime-q5x Месяц назад +8

    Great to see how people respected Disneyland. Beautifully dressed . Now there’s scanners security cameras.

    • @mikepants35
      @mikepants35 25 дней назад

      There's an open dumpster next to Casey Jr inthis footage

  • @charlespatrick8650
    @charlespatrick8650 23 дня назад +3

    $5.50 in 1961 is about $60 in 2024 dollars

  • @jeffhale2982
    @jeffhale2982 7 дней назад

    I think that family and a few others were the only ones there that day! Compare that to 2024. Our first time was March, 1957, when I was 7 years old, about the age of those kids, maybe younger. Where has the time gone?

  • @bertholini2810
    @bertholini2810 Месяц назад +2

    Sadly, I can remember the old Disney (like in these videos) and think about the good time we used to have. And there is now in Disney. Goodness, how it has changed.

  • @michaelterry1000
    @michaelterry1000 15 дней назад +1

    I love the father. The kids are all baby boomer age and the father could very well be a WWII vet.

  • @yourworstnightmare5902
    @yourworstnightmare5902 18 дней назад

    Great footage! I need to track down some of the super eight film my dad took.
    We were there the day it opened. I was five years old at the time and don’t remember much about it.
    Have been there countless times since :-)

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  15 дней назад

      @yourworstnightmare5902 - Sounds really cool! Older footage is hard to come by especially if you've got some stuff from opening day that could be historically significant!

  • @dongordo63
    @dongordo63 21 день назад

    Okay......what did you use to sharpen and enhance these movies? I'm guessing you have some kind of software to do this. I have NEVER seen 8mm movies with this kind of resolution.

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  20 дней назад

      @dongordo63 - There are some notes in the description about what software I used. The first few segments were on 16mm film, and probably a big part of the quality is the 4k digitization that was done before applying the software mentioned in the description.

  • @HeyBrickey
    @HeyBrickey Месяц назад

    Hey Matt,
    How can I get in direct contact with you? Your email associated with this RUclips account bounces back?
    Thanks!
    Mark

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  Месяц назад

      Hello - I updated the email associated with the account - can you try again?

  • @urbanfamily2520
    @urbanfamily2520 16 часов назад

    What kind of camera used? These videos are HD? How?

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  14 часов назад

      For most of the film segments a hobbyist 16mm silent film camera was used. There are some notes in the video description talking about the process of digitizing this footage.

  • @SoCalSurfer69
    @SoCalSurfer69 8 дней назад

    So cool! All of our movies were lost in a house fire. 😢

  • @tsmgguy
    @tsmgguy 3 дня назад

    1961 adult entry fee $5.50 at 16:42.

  • @stanfordite1
    @stanfordite1 20 дней назад +3

    After my hostile takeover, Disneyland will go back to these days as part of my plans to make Disney great again.

  • @zeroconsequences
    @zeroconsequences Месяц назад +4

    Women and families used to be so beautiful! Such a cool video even though there's no sound.. just open up a Disneyland Background music video on a different browser tab and there you are.

  • @NacyGravy
    @NacyGravy 13 дней назад

    Why the border, it’s very distracting

  • @EverScrolls
    @EverScrolls 19 дней назад

    Would pay extra to not see the special effect film overlay. But still amazing.

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  19 дней назад +2

      It's not a special effect - you're seeing a digitized scan of the entire film negative.

    • @EverScrolls
      @EverScrolls 19 дней назад

      @@transactionalsoa How was it scanned then?

    • @transactionalsoa
      @transactionalsoa  18 дней назад +1

      @@EverScrolls Film is fed through an scanner which lights it from behind and a digital photo of each frame is taken. In this case the scanner was configured to capture the entire film frame. The particular scanner was a Lasergraphics brand ScanStation.

  • @davidmacias741
    @davidmacias741 Месяц назад +3

    I went when i was 6 years old in 1968. And many times after that. What wonderful memories. At least i have those because i don't support this company anymore because of their politics.

    • @briancomiskey9824
      @briancomiskey9824 27 дней назад +2

      I feel sorry for you that you made it about politics.

    • @Rick-jf6sg
      @Rick-jf6sg 20 дней назад

      @@briancomiskey9824 Too bad, mijo.

  • @hometheaterfever5
    @hometheaterfever5 22 дня назад

    No audio