Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: The Futurism of Walt Disney
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Featuring interviews with various Disney Legends and Historians, Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow looks at the various technologies Walt Disney used and developed over the course of his life. From creating the first sync sound animation in 1928 to his unrealized dream of E.P.C.O.T., an experimental city that passed on with him in 1966, this film shows Walt Disney as the futurist he truly was.
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Several people have attempted to point out that the phrase used at 7:25, "If you can dream it, you can do it," is not a quote from Walt Disney. Instead of answering for it every time it is brought up, we will put our response here for all to see:
In a 1979 interview conducted by Arn Saba, Disney Legend Floyd Gottfredson recounted an exchange that occurred at Imagineering during a meeting about the new audioanamatronics technology. Someone said that what Walt wanted could not be achieved, and Gottfredson described Walt's response as, "God Damn it, if you can visualize it, if you can dream it, then there's some way to do it! Now keep after it until we get it!" The words are not the same but the sentiment is, and this conversation is most likely the genesis of that phrase. Though Gottfredson did not work in Imagineering it's reasonable to believe that as a member of the Disney Organization from 1929 to 1975 he is a reliable source and was up to date on the various goings on within the organization. We hope you will now understand why the phrase was included and attributed to Walt. Thank you for watching!
I suppose I see what you mean, but it still doesn't make the attribution correct. One issue is that the actual author of the phrase, Tom Fitzgerald, does not credit Walt as the source or inspiration for those words. Though he mentioned the idea that people think it was Walt as flattering.
Furthermore, a quote should not be attributed based upon sentiment. Quotes (good or bad) are about the actual distillation of idea into specific words. For example, Edward Butler-Lytton was undoubtedly not the only person to ever consider describing a night that was black and fraught with bad weather. However, to attribute "It was a dark and stormy night" to anyone of those other people would be wrong. "The words are not the same but the sentiment is" trivializes the value of the words. It wasn't just the sentiment, but the words themselves that have been implanted into the memories and minds of many people.
And YOUR credentials on this subject are.....?
Sir, i salute you for this classy reply. And for spotting the gesture in the first place.
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Basically, the exact words were said by someone else, but the sentiment of the phrase was said by Walt in a different way.
I’ve always considered it a tragedy that the Disney company abandoned Walt’s dream of Epcot, and turned it into another amusement park. How the world today might be different if they had had the courage to stay on track!
Sadly, the experience with the "Celebration" community is an example of why it would not work in a democratic form. The citizens who bought into the town because they liked the Disney "touch" and clean facilities, also voted to disassociate with the Disney corporation and run their own town, as I understand.
It would be interesting to see what that looks like today.
@@phljn1978 Celebration seems to be thriving. Unlike Disney, which keeps raising prices sky high, and releasing movies that push far left social engineering agendas, and try to co-opt small children into gender dysphoria, hormones, and surgery. Quite evil.
Only communism doesn’t work.
A sick fascist wet dream
@@phljn1978 "Celebration" disassociating from the post-Walt corporation is totally expected. It became a totally different company after he died (run by his incompetent son-in-law, Ron Miller, and the corporate "suits"). Note: the "death" of the EPCOT dream from Walt's TV show about it, and what the company did with it. I wanted to live in the EPCOT that I saw on TV as a kid, not the corporate theme park that I visited the year that it opened.
_"What would you think if..."_ Oh, man, did I wish my art teachers were like that. It's probably the best thing anyone overseeing creative work could possibly say.
Art teacher oversees understanding of basic concepts, not a creative process. And as an artist who worked in creative collectives I would also add that artists should learn how to swallow the bitter pill of critique as soon as possible. But generally, as a communication tool, I approve of it.
This is one of the absolutely finest video documentaries, of Walt Disney, I have ever seen. I remember seeing Walt on TV as a young child. He connected with people, and especially children. So much was lost with Walt's, and then Roy Disney's passing. After which, Disney as a company, has in my opinion, largely lost its way. It increasingly, became something soulless, and lacking the family centered ideology of, Walt Disney! Yes, the centers are for families, but there are many areas of business, and ways of doing business, that I am more than confident, Walt, nor Roy Disney, would have approved off, nor done. Walt was a true, and I dare say, altruistic, visionary. We were so much the poorer when Walt passed away. He impacted people, for the good. We need more Walt Disney's. And there are so very few of them, today. Yes, they are visionaries, but not visionaries who saw, such as in EPCOT, a vision to benefit every aspect and member, of the family. Wonderful video!!!
They should build the original EPCOT...
@@bachbuixuan401, on a distant planet as a future space colony, yes.
@@Neville60001 New Atlantis?
If the _only_ thing you can use to blast current Disney is that it's too 'woke', you've already lost; LGBT people are just as much a part of the world as straight people are, and Disney's still future looking (as shown by the movies _Tomorrowland_ and _Lightyear_ .)
@@cealdi1516, maybe.
A beautiful documentary. There’s so many nasty lies about the man to tear his legacy apart is so gross.
He may have had his faults, but the world is much better off because of him. While the current company, hiding behind his name, continues to try and destroy everything that was good and wholesome in the name of "WOKE".
This POS was used as a stool pigeon for McCarthy during the big red scare in the 50s to spy on his colleagues. Also was very vocal about joining the axis powers during the second world war early on, one of many who wanted to do so. Yeah such a wonderful man, he's a fascist ethno nationalist that wanted a "cleansed society" in his cult in Florida. You wanna talk about "woke?" This guy wouldn't even let you have facial hair if you worked for him. Lol keep living in a fantasy world.
I don't understand why the Disney company doesn't make some sort of effort to get rid of the tabloid lies that everyone spreads. A 5-second fact check will tell anyone he was a totally decent person. Not perfect, lol, he was like a regular, nice, decent person though. Kinda weird but very entertaining and brilliant. I love him.
the story of how Walt was lying in the hospital bed looking up at the ceiling and describing to Roy the details of his plans for Epcot really got me. Especially the part where he said, "And that's where we'll put the bench where me and Lily can sit" He was a man that truly had a passion for what he did. He kept making plans for the future even though his end was near. He knew that if there was the slightest chance that he could recover, he prepared so that he could get up and get back to what he loved right away. No words to describe how that makes me feel other than inspiring .
The production value, editing, and interviews were all amazing. Congratulations on such a fine piece of work.
I've always been so upset that they "gave up" on Walt's EPCOT, if he had even five more years there's no telling how different today would be.
+Dylan McDonald I agree. I didn't know that no one told Walt that he didn't have much time left to live. I think that would have gave him time to at least leave a detailed layout of what needed to be done. As Rolly said, if Walt would have known, a restructuring would have been done as quickly as possible. A plan like that can't be left to bankers/accountants. I also didn't know that Disney stock soared right after Walt died due to the fact that investors thought that Walt would not be there to impede the cash flow anymore with grander projects. I think that's really telling of where the company stands today.
WDW Kingdomcast I wonder if Roy withheld the information so there wouldn't be a restructure? I'm sure that's very unlikely but maybe he did and he felt guilty about that so he ended up coming back to work on Walt Disney World.
One of the things this film brings out is why it couldn't continue without Walt. The way he ran the "company" was not something that could be continued without him. That is brought out so well in this movie, a point largely overlooked in anything else I have seen. In effect, every person in the company was simply an operating arm of Walt. When the "head" was cut off, the limbs were left without the animating impulse. Much more the way an artist works than a business. The drawback being, it is not transferable. Once Walt was gone, "common sense" took over and his "ridiculous" ideas, such as EPCOT, were seen to be quite unworkable.
Dylan McDonald can you imagine living in a world with out wars and violence, everyone gets along...
Celebration, FL was basically TWDC's way of realizing Walt's vision for EPCOT.
Watching on Walt's 122 birthday. This man has made my life so much better than it would have been.
Music.. television.. movies.. vacations.. and even the clothes I wear and the things that I choose to display and decorate my home with, have all been influenced by this man and his dream.
Thank you, Walter Elias Disney. Thank you for the laughs. Thank you for the memories. 💖
Thank u for humanizing Walt after a number of accusatory “documentaries” I think he was a person like all of us and I think he had good intentions
May have been dispite all the sexualisation done in cartoons, but he was a Freemason, not like me.
He worked for the government and who knows what else behind the government... his crap is full of subliminal and in your face programmnig... programming... there's a reason why he was able to get so much air time... he was a tool that worked, and still works with precision and power over the cyborg zombie herds out there...
@@johnjones6049 Oh bullshit, stupid trailer trash trolls. Your self pic is hilarious, SCOOTER! LOL!
I'm honestly of the opinion that people who continue to spread all those various unprovable accusations against Walt without any solid evidence do so purely because they *WANT* to believe them... They *want* to believe that he was a hardcore racist, a sexist, a cultist or whatever other kind of controversial, reputation destroying buzzword they wanna push today...
They're no different from people who still unironically believe that the Earth is flat or that the Apollo moon landings were faked. They're so thoroughly convinced that they're right that no matter how much evidence you show them that they're wrong, nothing will stop them from continuing to push their crackpot conspiracy theories.
@@abundantYOUniverse that's just the equivalent of you pointing and screaming like a clone from "invasion of the body snatchers..." or the nasty Corona virus faced creatures from "they live" speaking into thier watches... "I've got one that can see..." a member of the herd... 🖕😎👍
This is the latest in a series of really high-quality documentaries I have been lucky enough to stumble across on RUclips in the past couple of weeks, the kind of thing that makes you realize why the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences got in the habit of awarding an Oscar for these things. Today's documentary genre industry is so utterly tin-plated by comparison. It also reminded me of when anything with the word "Disney" conveyed a sense of the magical in the best sense of the expression. When you heard it, you knew you were in for something not just out of the ordinary, but visionary and always benevolent. There is nothing like that today.
We're thrilled at the positive response the film has been receiving! We're glad you all seem to enjoy it, especially since we had such a great time making it! The world today needs Walt Disney's ideals more than ever!
+CM Films I've watched it 4 times since it came out
+CM Films Certainly better than what PBS tried to do.
+CM Films THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH! OMG- this is HEAVEN! :)
+Clovis Ramsay Precisely, sir. Walt Disney totally RULES! I'll never forget my first visit to Disneyland in 1968 when I was 8... I REFUSED to leave at closing time! LOL!
This is absolutely fantastic!
Growing up in Delaware during the sixties I watched Davy Crockett and other adventurous programs on the Wonderful World of Disney. Then, in the seventies I was in the navy training for duty aboard submarines when I along with a couple of classmates drove to Anaheim to see Disneyland. It was my first time in California and it was surreal to see the wonders that Walt spoke of when I was a child.
Even so, until viewing this film I never realized the influence that Walt Disney had during the air campaign of World War II and the space program. I believe Mr. Disney's visionary mind was only eclipsed by his innate sense of decency. Well done to the producers of this film and in closing, may God Bless America...the Green Bay Packers...and the Spirit of Walt Disney.
5 years later and this still one of the best if not the best documentaries I have ever had the pleasure of watching
Did any of you Work For Walt? HE WAS A RAPIST Find someone who Worked making Disney's Signature for him, Disney could not Write his Signature and Could not Draw. He Abused his workers anid I mention my Grandmother and Her Husband worked as Cartoonsts and Inkers? Yeah, I am 73 Years old and Met Disney when he came to Hot Springs National Park to scout out his next Disney Land, in Arkansas. Hey, Disney told my Grandmother "I will not build anything in Arkansas, these are crooked people worse than My Hollywood Greed Masters, People like think Disney was a Nice Guy? You are fools. He was a pedophile from the "get-go."
I am so disgusted that the "Real Horror that was Disney and his Children Show, in 1950's, showed Muskateers etc? Do you remember Walt's Kids? Were you alive in 1949? Well, I was.
It really is. This is probably my 10th time watching it
best documentary on Walt Disney, I watched, ,love his ideas
this was awesome. Disney should endorse this film. It might remind Disney Corp what type of good people use to work at Disney Studios.
I like Cars, but I agree.
No money it for them so they won't. Disney is about money that's all.
Dutton Entertainment just cause they make stuff for a broad audience doesn’t mean they’re pedophilic .. also monsters inc came out in 2001 (17 years ago) and was made by pixar, before disney bought them. how is that modern disney?? it seems like maybe you just hate cgi
@@omi_god i mean everything looks the same now Moster Inc looks like Frozen Toy story looks like monster inc bambi looks nothing like dumbo dumbo looks nothing like Mary popping and so on now every cartoon animation looks the same.
Rachel Williams I have to agree. They only care for the money. Walt had no intent for these 1,000 dollar and over prices. Happiness should be at no cost.
I loved this, watched the whole thing and came back for a second go
Hey Sean! Remember me? I was the "give 50:01 a second go guy". I hope you are in good health and happy. I decided to watch this video again and remembered you in the comments. Have a great day! Bob.
I’ve watched it twice too and sent it to a few Disney lovers. Incredible documentary
The best documentary on Walt and Disneyland I've seen in terms of information and pure inspiration. If there's anyone who hates on Disneyland or Walt, I feel like if they could pay attention to this entire documentary, they would surely change their mind. I tear up at many parts of this documentary from the magnitude of what that man has done for our world
this is perhaps the best film i have seen on Disney in years. this film gives insights that no other film has given. Stories told with extra details not previously heard on other documentaries.
Saw how long this was when it queued and thought “I’m not watching 2 hours of this” but after 30 seconds I was glued!! Awesome and very enjoyable!! Thanks for the great film 🥳
Haha same here...it started playing and I was like I'll watch it in full one dag...but couldn't shut it off.
Jose Tirado same lol 😂
I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. The people you interviewed were perfect. Rolly Crump and Bob Gurr are two of my favorite people. Great editing as well. Most documentaries couldnt tell this story under 3 hours.
As a Disney enthusiast and specifically a Walt Disney enthusiast, I can say with confidence that this is the best documentary of Walt I have ever seen, hands down... Thank you for creating this for those of us who are inspired every day by this man and his legacy
i agree!
WTF kind of strange and disturbing life does one have to live for them to actually become a "Walt Disney enthusiast"? Get a real hobby
thanks for saying "specifically a Walt Disney enthusiast, I hate hearing about Disney world, it's WALT Disney World, thanks in advance to all those who'll make the change in the future
@@mikaelgaiason688 he is the best thing ever. Why do other people's harmless interests make you feel insecure?
@@mikaelgaiason688people are allowed to have heroes, aren’t they?
This is one of the absolutely finest video documentaries, of Walt Disney, I have ever seen. I remember seeing Walt on TV as a young child. He connected with people, and especially children. So much was lost with Walt's, and then Roy Disney's passing. After which, Disney as a company, has in my opinion, largely lost its way. It increasingly, became something soulless, and lacking the family centered ideology of, Walt Disney! Yes, the centers are for families, but there are many areas of business, and ways of doing business, that I am more than confident, Walt, nor Roy Disney, would have approved off, nor done. Walt was a true, and I dare say, altruistic, visionary. We were so much the poorer when Walt passed away. He impacted people, for the good. We need more Walt Disney's. And there are so very few of them, today. Yes, they are visionaries, but not visionaries who saw, such as in EPCOT, a vision to benefit every aspect and member, of the family. Wonderful video!!!
Beautiful documentary
I truly wish Walt was still alive..how amazing Disney would be! It is awesome but he was such a visionary! Just imagine the things we would have today?
This was so phenomenally done! I love all the actual Walt monologue footage you included too! It’s not as included in most of the other Disney Docs I’ve found. Thank you so much for this! 🙏💖💫
Great documentary Walt Disney was so inspirational.
I was skeptical at first as to whether I'd want to watch this entire film, but I thoroughly enjoyed all of the details. You put a lot of hard work to cover a lot of ground. Thank you for this. I definitely learned somethings about Walt and the Disney cooperation that I'd never known before. He was quite the visionary and incredibly inspirational.
You have no idea how happy this makes me! You did your research and all of the work put into this is incredible!!
1:30:45 The Vultures couldn't wait to turn Disney into the soulless husk it is today. 😒
R.I.P Walt😢
Imagine how Werner Von Braun, Walt himself, and company would tyhink of the bland and plastic cars (apologies to those who use them), that pass for futuristic cars...they don't even earn the name..I like to think 20th century futuristic ideally. :D Long live De Soto, Chrylser, and the other brands you saw in the 50s footage!
@@SteveCarras You're right, it's a shame how far they've fallen.
@@SteveCarras Counterpoint: Compare the typical lifespan and regular maintenance (and maintenance *intervals*) of cars from the 50's to cars from around the mid-nineties to today.
Then recall that comment about the best technology being that which gets out of the way and just works.
You'll catch flak for that, but I agree. It's a soulless husk of a once great empire. Computer animation held so much promise, but personally, "Fantasia" was Walt's Magnum Opus. The new cartoons are frightening.
@@theAsterisk While technology has improved, the point is that there is no innovation anymore. The only motivation is money, and nothing else.
While Disney wasn't perfect, he was an idealist as well as a businessman.
Insightful and moving!
I'm literally a child of the Walt Disney influence and accomplishments.
I was born in 1947 just as Mr. Disney's television dominance was just around the corner. I was in grade school when the Howdy Show emerged with my generation's cultural attention.
The Mickey Mouse Club daily program captured ALL my fellow baby-boomers devotion to the point we would ALL be home by 4PM to watch weekly episodes.
We even "acted" out the social dynamics with our classmates.
So that was five hours of "kid addiction" plus the newly introduced Walt Disney World
sunday evening show which was really a one hour commercial to generate pent-up demand to visit the California Disneyland.
When I was 19, our family drove out there in 1967.
I was totally blown away.
Highest standards of site layout, lush landscaping, highest quality construction with world class rides. Not a single wrapper, cigarette butt, chewing gum etc. So clean one could eat off the street
A satisfying experience.
I was a high-school band chaperon to WDW in '84, honeymoon in '93 (LOVED the then Epcot cultural ambience of cuisine, architecture, food, and not "ride" dominance.
And and a family vacation with our two children in '07 and again in '10.
Fond memories..........
*)*
I'm 70 YEARS OLD AND i WENT TO Disney WORLD 30 YEARS AGO AND it WAS SO big THAT it TOOK ME 3 DAYS TO SEE it ALL BUT it WAS GREAT TO SEE it 😁
I have NEVER bookmarked a video on RUclips until today. I honestly would LOVE to see a series streamed on Disney Plus on not so much the accomplishments of Walt Disney, but his Mind and Motivations. More important than the creations themselves, was Walt's view of the world and humanity in general that drove every one of his projects. I would love to see a episodic series on this.
This is fantastic and has enough production value to be run on TV, you did a really good job with this.
Lovely and inspiring tribute to a great innovator, imagineer, and storyteller. Been a fan all my life and I'm 65! Would have loved to see EPCOT as his diligent social conscience and eye for efficiency and beauty conceived it.
The more I learn about all this, the more I realize that Disney’s involvement in Worlds Fairs towards the last decade of his life, motivated him to the next level. Through sponsorships that were mutually beneficial at Disneyland also, he could basically make Disneyworld a place of applying permanent residence of new technologies. It was a very radical thing (creating a living prototype city) that hinged on his optimism of technology. There’s no way that anyone else could have brought this to fruition at the critical stage when we lost Walt.
When all is said and done, had Disney been able to build his original vision of EPCOT, he would have Discovered A Discovery: in the end, a Company Town is a Company Town, and, human nature (DAMN that Pesky Human Nature!!) being what it is, it would have become a dystopia. The two strained compromises they DID manage to build, EPCOT (1982) and Celebration, Florida (1994) are falling apart. Walt's permanent World's Fair has closed most of its early exhibits and is looking very tired (I know, I was there last month), and is using Unpaid Phony Bull-Shit Degree College Interns From Different Countries to staff its exhibits. As for Celebration, this gentrified Leave It To Beaver Potemkin Village, it is peeling paint and decaying, and Disney has given up and sold it to private investors, and all of its residents are complaining . . . DAMN that Capitalism! Happens every time!
@@misterwhipple2870 WHAT? Lol did you just make all that up or what
@@cealdi1516 No, I meant every single word and I stand by it. What's the problem?
@@misterwhipple2870 ...it's not true....? Lol I live near WDW/Celebration.
@@cealdi1516 So do I, half the year. And not only that, I watched them build it all from the beginning. EPCOT bears NO resemblance to Walt's "vision", the vultures turned it into a permanent World's Fair, which even you KNOW was NOT Walt's vision.
I like the Smoke Tree Ranch pin on the tie that the host is wearing.
I still want to see EPCOT done in its original vision.
For Fun I’m drawing my own vision of Epcot with more grander buildings. Or the retro futurism from the 1939-1960s spirit of retro futurism. I’m Into exterior Architecture, and Exterior Automotive design concept art. I’ve got the building and concept art individually. I’ve even made a new kinda of transportation: A mono-train (a mixture of a monorail and train) which can use both Monorail track and train track through the use of a switch rail, and a two wheel base system.
I LOVE ALL THINGS DISNEY
DISNEYLAND IS MY FAVORITE PLACE IN THE WORLD. MY FAMILY AND DISNEYLAND NOTHING BETTER THAN THAT.
Best movie on Walt I have seen.
+ejud2001 Thank you!
I Totally Agree.
Almost done with the documentary and my main question hasn't been answered....did this man ever sleep? I've always loved Disney but I never knew the roots to it and this really showed me how incredible Walt was 😐😐👌🏻
This made me tear up at the end. What a truly amazing documentary.
Watching in 2020. This was by far one of the best Disney Movie about Walt Iv ever seen.
This is a beautiful testament to a great American legend. Thank you!
What a great documentary. Thank you, it brought back fond memories of Disneyland, The NY World's Fair and Walt Disney World. I was young when Mr. Disney passed away and felt the world had lost a true innovator. Thank you for putting this together - Bravo! Thanks to the Construction Company my father worked for, I got to see the World's Fair long before it opened and was thankful that that concept continued with EPCOT.
Thanks
It’s odd how I’m just finding this now. I never considered how disney studios was one mans dream
What I'd give to have seen a world where Steve Jobs and Walt Disney could've met and work together. That would've been a sight to see, between the two of them I'm sure Walt's vision of EPCOT could've been a reality.
1:17:18 Squirrel
And I wanted to express how much I appreciate independent documentary makers. This is great, thank you
This is a wonderful, informative film. I'd forgotten about the stereo Disney broadcasts decades ago; but now I remember how we watched those with amazement. Having had some connection with the Disney organization, and having published a book which tangentially describes that, I found this to be a wonderful resource. The Gabler thing is not good, nor accurate. This leaves it in the dust.
+Donald Scott The stereo broadcasts impressed us too! Walt was decades ahead of everyone else! Thank you!
To think what the company would’ve been in Walt had never smoked...Roy lived into his late 70’s....what would the company have been if Walt had been able to see the Florida Project through to completion; if we’d had Walt Disney into the 80’s, into HIS 80’s...Damned cigarettes robbed us all of what that could’ve been!!
Finally a great documentary, it give insight on how Walt went from motion pictures to tech in a way that makes sense and doesn't make him seem some kind of dictator jesus. I now see him as a resourceful man who had the interest of doing something useful for society. What is very impressive is how animators became full on engineers and created the rides and animatronics. It is just so hard to create a finished product from the ground up and they did on a regular basis.
Someone in the comments mentioned the terrible American Experience piece on Walt. It was crap. What makes this movie so good is that the filmmaker gets it. Well done, sir.
ejud200 And he got it done while the old timers were still around to interview. Superbly well done.
FANTASTIC! So well done. If anyone wants to see if EPCOT became a reality look up Reedy Creek Improvement District. It is the actual governing body of Walt Disney World. Yes, the building codes are officially known as the Epcot building codes. As a fan of Walt and the futurism he had I say thank you.
Thank you! Nice work and GREAT DOCUMENTARY! I noticed a minor discrepancy between your documentary and a documentary by the BBC. In yours it is stated that it was Roy's idea to change the name of the company from Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio to the Walt Disney Studio in the BBC documentary it was Walt's idea. Your information seems to be correct, nice catch!
Well done. It's great to know how things came to be in conjunction with visiting Walt Disney World. It just makes the journey complete. Bravo.
Fabulous documentary!! I agree, we need more positive and imaginative people like Walt Disney. It is so sad that he died too soon to finish his dreams. He was such an inspiration. I am thankful for him and for all the great people that helped him accomplish all that the Disney company did.
An excellent, straight forward doc on Walt! Thank you for creating and presenting this film in such a professional manner!!
50:00 bottom guy flipping us off!! Lmao XD
This is one of the best documentaries I've seen.
Inspiring film!! People really need to take some cues from your sense of storytelling 👌🏻
... I saw it at the 1964 World's Fair at Flushing Meadows. It was a hoot!!! I was 13. The audience moving was very thrilling.
Wow - what an awesome presentation! To quote a saying from Walt Disney: “I hope we never lose sight of one thing-that it was all started by a mouse.” , - I say, "it was all started by a Great Man - Walt Disney!"!
Mickey was his alter-ego, with Minnie being like his own wife, Lillian (or Lilly, for short). Being voiced later on by marrieds Wayne Allwine (who was told by his predecessor Jimmy MacDonald, "Remember kid, you're just filling in for the boss", further reaffirming that Mickey was an extension of Walt) & Russi Taylor was an added bonus. Likewise, Oswald & Ortensia, became Roy & Edna's equivalency when Disney bought back Oswald & his girlfriend in exchange for sportscaster Al Michaels (who moved onto competitor NBC) & the Epic Mickey videogames presented "The Lucky Rabbit" as the older brother of "The Leader of the Club".
OK, where can I get a Disneyland Hotel sign Hawaiian shirt like that? Must. Have. One!
me too
He was a freakin’ genius.
This is probably the best thing RUclips has ever randomly thrown on my screen 😭 thank you for making a bed-ridden day better.
Walt Disney a man ahead of his time. EPCOT a future unrealized.
before kingdoms can change peoples hearts must change
One of the best documentaries I've seen on anybody here on RUclips and beyond!! BRILLIANT and very inspirational!
Just an FYI, Walt Disney never said: “If you can dream it, you can do it”. That was coined by imagineer Tom Fitzgerald. So . . .
Thank you so much for this. Wonderfully done. Happily sharing!
i have been to disneyland and WDW epcot i believe this should a real place i believe in this
I love the guy kneeling and giving the finger to the camera at 50:00 with the guy in the white smock laughing at him.
Very well done. I actually watched from beginning to end and found this interesting and obviously well researched.
What a wonderful film. Thanks very much.
They should build the original EPCOT...
it would already be there if there was no evil in the world and personal interests involved (money, power...
see brad bird's movie "tomorrowland"
it can still be done, only postponed
let s be optimistic dreamers (I even wear the pin, I made it myself!)
I think the Celebration experiment was enough to doom that idea.
Yes I totally agree with you, Epcot should be built, more now than ever, we have the technology to do so much more now, It's just that some people just don't have an Imagination these days, it's all about money these days.
48:00
Damn, surround sound in the home back in the 50's using Television signals combined with AM and FM radio. How insane is that???
I wonder how the widescreen thing worked too. I'm guessing just black bars on the top and bottom of the screen, but maybe it was something more inventive?
One of the best documentaries I've ever watched on Walt Disney. I love how you went with the technology direction. Keep up the good work!
+blackeyejim Thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it!
This is what the purpose of a documentary is: To tell an amazing real-life story that the public would otherwise not be aware of. Fantastic, top-tier work, and criminally underappreciated.
Great, well paced, documentary with some new info, stories and shots. Most important, it is very inspiring.
Amazing documentary! Truly a shame that this isn't available on DVD. It shows this innovative spirit that was Walt Disney and is a stark contrast to what the Disney Company has become in recent years without this kind of leadership.
Thanks for this informative and engaging documentary. I was 9 y/o when Walt died. I remember when he passed, a cartoon of Mickey Mouse crying appeared in the newspapers of the time. My family used to watch his tv show every Sunday night. Walt was a kindly man on that show, full of enthusiasm and zeal about any subject. R.I.P. Walt. Miss you always.
I swear at 50.02 dude in front row is flippin the bird !! 😁 Bob Gurr is an awsome laid back kinda guy ,the way he tells his story's oh, I gave Richard Nixon his first ride.😀
This is the best documentary on Walt Disney I've ever seen. Far superior to the PBS/American Experience doc in every way.
@daniel letterman
Yeah what Disney did to his female ink and paint employees who went on strike was seriously effed up. Then there's the lemming murders. And yes, I believe Disney threw around the n-word sometimes like he was accused of.
Before RUclips, I was in the dark about some aspects of my child hood role model. Thank you very much for bringing this to the light of day now and well into the future!!
I finished watching this documentary last night, and I found it so incredibly informative and entertaining. Thank you for finding the perfect balance of old historic clips and interviews. Walt would applaud your genius!
Such a thoughtful and well done piece.
I learned a lot
I have love walt Disney since I was a child 34 now, i hate hearing the things said about him because i knew they were not true. My father was born in 42 and would talk about this great man and how he chanced movie making, how we thought about technology, space and so many different ideas. As a kid I watched many of his films from 40s and 50s and technology and the future so I have always been difficult to hear that bs so thank u for cutting though that.
9:47 The first cartoon short was NOT "Trolley Troubles". It was the first to publicly air. The first cartoon short was called "Poor Papa" however it never properly aired because Charles Mintz did not like the character Oswald at the time because he wasn't "Charlie Chaplin like" and wanted a character that was more energetic and younger. This is why Oswald was changed to a better version which aired in the short "Trolley Troubles" and it became the first short to publicly air. NOT the first short created. The short from 1927 I believe was stored away after it was shown to Mintz. The film was lost until a few years ago presumably.
Excellent, excellent, excellent....
This is probably one of the coolest things I have ever watched. Thank you.
Thank you for getting this correct!
To Uncle Walt!
Thank you for this outstanding documentary!
Awesome documentary, it helps me remember that there are great things in our world.
who the f is flippin me off @50:02 lol
Lol. That looks like Tim Allen!
Classic Disney? Maybe.
Its WED Imagineer X Atencio. He wrote the "Yo Ho (A Pirates Life for Me)," and "Grim Grinning Ghosts."
Lol is this wehere XXXTENTACION got his fucking name? A disney imagineer, X Atencio?
I thought it was my eyes playing tricks on me but...
bravo, great doc. thank you
Coming from one of the biggest Disney fans out there, this was the greatest Documentary I have seen pertaining to the Great Walt Disney. From start to finish you had my attention and interest. Though a lot of the things I have heard before or know, the way it was presented had me feel this was all brand new material. In a sense, this film had a "Magical Feel" to it, just like Walt would've had in his film.
I love Walt Disney too
I’m 47 minutes into this and the most important thing I’ve learned so far is that everyone thought Walt Disney was crazy or that what he wanted to do couldn’t be done… he just kept proving them wrong! This has is very important for those who want to follow their dreams!
I just want to thank you guys for this documentary! I think I have watched it at least 12 times now and it always makes my heart sing :-)
I don’t know what Walt would think of what they have done to his parks and his company, but nothing can erase who he was and everything he gave to our nation and this world :-)
In many ways his death and then the total departure of the Disney’s from the company the company died :-( but thanks to technology we have so much of him, his character and his dreams to look back upon! :-)
Wow. This was extremely well done and enjoyable. As a Disney lover, you added to my appreciation of what he and the company has given to us. Thank you.
Love it I've been to Walt Disney World several times and this really explains a lot great video
Fabulous. I love Walt and Roy and the Disney company. I wish he hadn't died so young. I am grateful Roy took on the challenge of building WDW...