Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world
By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides ... Disneyland's Main Street sparked an architectural preservation movement that touched every American downtown--and remains controversial: many see it as a retreat from life itself. What is beyond argument is that Disneyland was something new, both in public entertainment and in the way its 'lands' managed to chime with how millions of Americans wanted to view their country.
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xvi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2019.
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Disney's Land : Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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1 | Sunday, July 17, 1955, 4 a.m. | p. 1 |
2 | How I Got to Disneyland | p. 7 |
3 | A Horrible Name for a Mouse | p. 17 |
4 | The Railroad Fair | p. 25 |
5 | The Lilly Belle | p. 35 |
6 | World's Fairs, Coney Island, and the Decline of the Amusement Park | p. 45 |
7 | Dwarf Land | p. 53 |
8 | Getting Started | p. 59 |
9 | Buzz and Woody | p. 67 |
10 | Orange County | p. 73 |
11 | Buying on the Sly | p. 77 |
12 | Roy | p. 83 |
13 | Like Nothing Else in the World | p. 91 |
14 | The Almost Broadcasting Company | p. 95 |
15 | Selling the Idea | p. 103 |
16 | Imagineering | p. 113 |
17 | The Admiral | p. 119 |
18 | The Instant Jungle | p. 129 |
19 | Arrow | p. 135 |
20 | Harriet and the Model Shop | p. 141 |
21 | Real Trains | p. 147 |
22 | King of the Wild Frontier | p. 155 |
23 | The Struggle for Sponsors | p. 167 |
24 | Van Arsdale France Founds a School | p. 175 |
25 | The Pony Farm | p. 189 |
26 | Demands of the Jungle Cruise | p. 193 |
27 | Milking the Elephant | p. 199 |
28 | Autopia | p. 203 |
29 | The Moonliner | p. 211 |
30 | Through the Castle Gate | p. 215 |
31 | The Perfectionist at Work | p. 221 |
32 | Ruths Role | p. 225 |
33 | Union Troubles | p. 231 |
34 | "We're Not Going to Make It" | p. 237 |
35 | Tempus Fugit | p. 249 |
36 | Dateline: Disneyland | p. 257 |
37 | Dateline Behind the Cameras: Black Sunday | p. 285 |
38 | Damage Control | p. 295 |
39 | Something Worthwhile | p. 309 |
40 | Plussing | p. 319 |
41 | The Mountain and the Monorail | p. 327 |
42 | Disneyland '59 | p. 335 |
43 | "Do You Have Rocket-Launching Pads There?" | p. 341 |
44 | Suing God in Heaven | p. 345 |
45 | A Perfect Fascist Regime | p. 349 |
46 | The Greatest Piece of Urban Design | p. 353 |
47 | The First Goodbye | p. 359 |
48 | Beautiful? | p. 363 |
Afterword, and a Note on the Sources | p. 373 | |
Bibliography | p. 379 | |
Illustration Credits | p. 387 | |
Index | p. 389 |