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Disney's Land

Author : Richard Snow
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1501190814
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Disney's Land written by Richard Snow and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A propulsive and “entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow. One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagined building a park where people “could live among Mickey Mouse and Snow White in a world still powered by steam and fire for a day or a week or (if the visitor is slightly mad) forever.” Despite his wealth and fame, exactly no one wanted Disney to build such a park. Not his brother Roy, who ran the company’s finances; not the bankers; and not his wife, Lillian. Amusement parks at that time, such as Coney Island, were a generally despised business, sagging and sordid remnants of bygone days. Disney was told that he would only be heading toward financial ruin. But Walt persevered, initially financing the park against his own life insurance policy and later with sponsorship from ABC and the sale of thousands and thousands of Davy Crockett coonskin caps. Disney assembled a talented team of engineers, architects, artists, animators, landscapers, and even a retired admiral to transform his ideas into a soaring yet soothing wonderland of a park. The catch was that they had only a year and a day in which to build it. On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened its gates…and the first day was a disaster. Disney was nearly suicidal with grief that he had failed on a grand scale. But the curious masses kept coming, and the rest is entertainment history. Eight hundred million visitors have flocked to the park since then. In Disney’s Land, “Snow brings a historian’s eye and a child’s delight, not to mention superb writing, to the telling of this fascinating narrative” (Ken Burns) that “will entertain Disneyphiles and readers of popular American history” (Publishers Weekly).

Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One Disney Lands

Author : Ridley Pearson
Publisher : Disney-Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781423184317
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One Disney Lands written by Ridley Pearson and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls.

Disney Never Lands

Author : Jim Korkis
Publisher : Theme Park Press
ISBN 13 : 9781683902133
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Disney Never Lands written by Jim Korkis and published by Theme Park Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What If Walt Had... For every project that Disney has produced, there are hundreds more that never happened despite significant investments of time, talent, and money. But what if you could see them anyway... Jim Korkis enters the limbo of Disney Never Lands to report on new theme parks, new lands in existing parks, television shows, and animation that were left unbuilt and unfilmed. Over the decades, he interviewed Imagineers and animators who worked on these projects as well as researching contemporary newspaper accounts and official publicity releases. Korkis details the usual suspects like WestCot, Mineral King, Roger Rabbit feature sequels, and Epcot's Africa pavilion as well as surprises like Jim Henson's television series about Ariel the Little Mermaid and the Disney Channel's series that would have featured Dreamfinder and Figment as well as the animation Disney had Ub Iwerks do for Danny Kaye's first feature film. Korkis shares the surprises that he discovered in the deepest vaults of Disney history. For the first time, these stories are gathered together in one book to inspire Disney fans' imaginations of what might have been and to document in great detail these lost dreams.

Disney Lands

Author : Ridley Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780606375078
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Disney Lands written by Ridley Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Wanting to celebrate the defeat of the Overtakers, the five Kingdom Keepers are mystified by their mentor's final puzzle, which reveals a threat by an evil force far greater than any they have yet encountered. A continuation of the Kingdom Keepers series.

Little Man of Disneyland (Disney Classic)

Author : RH Disney
Publisher : Golden/Disney
ISBN 13 : 0736436189
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Little Man of Disneyland (Disney Classic) by : RH Disney

Download or read book Little Man of Disneyland (Disney Classic) written by RH Disney and published by Golden/Disney. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative Little Golden Book, originally published in 1955, tells the story of the creation of Disneyland and the little man who lives there. Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love joining Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as they meet little Patrick Begorra. Great for Disney fans, theme park enthusiasts, and Little Golden Book collectors of all ages!

Walt Disney's Disneyland

Author : Chris Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783836563482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Walt Disney's Disneyland written by Chris Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the story of Disneyland, Walt Disney's visionary theme park in Anaheim, California. This bountiful visual history includes stunning color photographs, concept drawings, as well as ephemera from the historical collections of the Walt Disney Company and the golden age of photojournalism, to trace the park's development and immersive...

Disneyland Secrets

Author : Gavin Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941500422
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Disneyland Secrets written by Gavin Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuff Even Mickey Doesn't Know. When a theme park has been around for 60 years, it hides a lot of secrets. Disneyland expert Gavin Doyle has swept aside the pixie dust and uncovered little-known stories about the happiest place on earth that will make you a master of the magic.

Disney The Lion King: Roar of the Pride Lands

Author : Maggie Fischer
Publisher : Studio Fun International
ISBN 13 : 9780794442798
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Book Synopsis Disney The Lion King: Roar of the Pride Lands by : Maggie Fischer

Download or read book Disney The Lion King: Roar of the Pride Lands written by Maggie Fischer and published by Studio Fun International. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slide the tabs and save the Pride Lands with Simba and his friends in this hands-on retelling! A fallen king, the lie of a traitor, the transition from cub to leader of the pride—the story of Simba the lion is one of danger and destiny. Follow along with Simba, Nala, Timon, Pumbaa, and all of your favorite characters from The Lion King in this exciting retelling. Slide the tabs, stand with Simba, and hear the roar of the Pride Lands!

The Disneylands That Never Were

Author : Shaun Finnie
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1847285430
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Disneylands That Never Were written by Shaun Finnie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955 Walt Disney presented the world's first theme park. Disneyland opened with just 18 rides and attractions. Today there are eleven Disney parks around the globe. Visitors can spend weeks at a time in these resorts, often staying in one of Disney's own hotel rooms. But in the last fifty years the Disney Imagineers have designed thousands of rides, attractions, hotels, and even entire theme parks that have never been built. Many of these concepts have remained hidden in the company's private archive for decades. until now. The Disneylands That Never Were documents the biggest, best and most outrageous of these abandoned plans. It details everything from Walt Disney's initial ideas for Mickey Mouse Park to his planned ski resort in California. From small developments like The Disney Hotel in New York's Times Square to the huge Port Disney concept, over five decades of dreams are brought to life in The Disneylands That Never Were.

Disney The Lion King Timon and Pumbaa's Pride Lands Safari

Author : Courtney Acampora
Publisher : Studio Fun International
ISBN 13 : 9780794442941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Disney The Lion King Timon and Pumbaa's Pride Lands Safari written by Courtney Acampora and published by Studio Fun International. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Timon and Pumbaa as they explore the Pride Lands! Join everyone’s favorite meerkat and warthog duo, Timon and Pumbaa, as they give a tour of the Pride Lands in Disney The Lion King Timon and Pumbaa’s Pride Lands Safari! From Pride Rock to Hakuna Matata Falls, Timon and Pumbaa introduce the habitats in the Pride Lands and the animals and characters that live in each. This book includes a spyglass viewer with six images that correspond with the story. As the two pals explore the Pride Lands, use the spyglass to help Timon and Pumbaa find key characters from The Lion King!

A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks

Author : Sabrina Mittermeier
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781789383270
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks written by Sabrina Mittermeier and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing is academic, but it is not inaccessible. It will have wide disciplinary appeal within academia, as tourism studies cross into a variety of fields including history, American studies, fandom studies, performance studies and cultural studies. It will be invaluable to those working in the field of theme park scholarship and the study of Disney theme parks, theme parks in general and related areas like world's expositions and spaces of the consumer and lifestyle worlds. It will also be of interest to Disney fans, those who have visited any of the parks or are interested to know more about the parks and their cultural situation and context.

Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One: Disney Lands

Author : Ridley Pearson
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1484719387
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Kingdom Keepers: The Return Book One: Disney Lands written by Ridley Pearson and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the defeat of the Overtakers behind them, the five teenagers known as the Kingdom Keepers should be celebrating. By all accounts they saved Disneyland from certain destruction. Why then did their mentor leave one last puzzle for them to decipher? The Keepers must solve a puzzle of the past, or be crushed under an evil that makes the Overtakers seem like gentle souls.

Magic Lands

Author : John M. Findlay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520084357
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Magic Lands written by John M. Findlay and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-09-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes—Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair—John Findlay shows how each created a sense of cohesion and sustained people's belief in their superior urban environment. This first book-length study of the urban West after 1940 argues that Westerners deliberately tried to build cities that differed radically from their eastern counterparts. In 1954, Walt Disney began building the world's first theme park, using Hollywood's movie-making techniques. The creators of Stanford Industrial Park were more hesitant in their approach to a conceptually organized environment, but by the mid-1960s the Park was the nation's prototypical "research park" and the intellectual downtown for the high-technology region that became Silicon Valley. In 1960, on the outskirts of Phoenix, Del E. Webb built Sun City, the largest, most influential retirement community in the United States. Another innovative cityscape arose from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and provided a futuristic, somewhat fanciful vision of modern life. These four became "magic lands" that provided an antidote to the apparent chaos of their respective urban milieus. Exemplars of a new lifestyle, they are landmarks on the changing cultural landscape of postwar America.

Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives

Author : Bethanee Bemis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000811166
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives written by Bethanee Bemis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disney Theme Parks and America’s National Narratives takes a public history approach to situating the physical spaces of the Disney brand within memory and identity studies. For over 65 years, Disney’s theme parks have been important locations for the formation and negotiation of the collective memory of the American narrative. Disney’s success as one of America’s most prolific storytellers, its rise as a symbol of America itself, and its creation of theme parks that immerse visitors in three-dimensional versions of certain "American" values and historic myths have both echoed and shaped the way the American people see themselves. Like all versions of the American narrative, Disney’s vision serves to reassure us, affirm our shared values, and unite a diverse group of people under a distinctly American identity—or at least, it did. The book shows how the status Disney obtained led the public to use them both as touchstones of identity and as spaces to influence the American identity writ large. This volume also examines the following: • how Disney’s original cartoons and live-action entertainment offerings drew from American folk history and ideals • how their work during World War II cemented them as an American symbol at home and abroad • how the materialization of the American themes already espoused by the brand at their theme parks created a place where collective memory lives • how legitimization by presidents and other national figures gave the theme parks standing no other entertainment space has • how Disney has changed alongside the American people and continues to do so today. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of history, media, cultural studies, American studies and tourism.

A Portrait of Walt Disney World

Author : Kevin Kern
Publisher : Disney Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781368052849
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (528 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of Walt Disney World written by Kevin Kern and published by Disney Editions. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive, must-have coffee table book paints a robust portrait of the Walt Disney World Resort, across half a century, through diverse and vibrant voices and mostly unseen Disney theme park concept art and photographs. Walt Disney's vision for the Florida Project begins with Disneyland and the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. After an imaginative and expansive design, a unique land acquisition process, and an innovative construction period, the Walt Disney World Resort celebrated its Grand Opening in October 1971. It featured a theme park dubbed the Magic Kingdom and three recreational resorts: Disney's Contemporary Resort, Disney's Polynesian Village, and Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground. As Walt Disney World consistently grew and further evolved through the five decades that followed, certain themes reverberated: an appreciation for nostalgia, a joy for fantasy, a hunger for discovery, and an unending hope for a better tomorrow. Inspirational and memorable theme parks, water parks, sports arenas, recreational water sports, world-class golf courses, vast shopping villages, and a transportation network unlike any other in the world resulted in fun, festive, and familiar characters, traditions, spectacles, merchandise, and so much more. The resort has come to represent the pulse of American leisure and has served as a backdrop for life's milestones both big and small, public and private. Walt Disney World: A Portrait of the First Half Century serves as a treasure trove for vacationers, students of hospitality, artists, and all Disney collectors. Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic Poster Art of the Disney Parks

Walt's Disneyland

Author : Marcy Smothers
Publisher : Disney Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781368052153
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Walt's Disneyland written by Marcy Smothers and published by Disney Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A immersive guide to the attractions and landmarks Walt helped create in his original Magic Kingdom! Walt Disney's personal imprint remains firmly intact at Disneyland. Walt's Disneyland allows guests to walk around Disneyland identifying the attractions and landmarks Walt championed, touching what he touched, and seeing his original Magic Kingdom through his eyes. Walt's Disneyland is organized land by land, clockwise, beginning with Main Street, U.S.A. then on to Adventureland, Frontierland, New Orleans Square, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland. A must-have to add to your Disney Parks collection!

The Mouse and the Myth

Author : Dorene Koehler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0861969324
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Mouse and the Myth written by Dorene Koehler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upholds “a Disney vacation as a religious experience . . . [offers] insightful arguments relating to the nature of play as well as Nietzschean philosophy” (Reading Religion). Rituals mark significant moments in our lives—perhaps none more significant than moments of lightheartedness, joy, and play. Rituals of play are among the most sacred of any of the rites in which humanity may engage. Although we may fail to recognize them, they are always present in culture, providing a kind of psychological release for their participants, child and adult alike. Disneyland is an example of the kind of container necessary for the construction of rituals of play. This work explores the original Disney theme park in Anaheim as a temple cult. It challenges the disciplines of mythological studies, religious studies, film studies, and depth psychology to broaden traditional definitions of the kind of cultural apparatus that constitute temple culture and ritual. It does so by suggesting that Hollywood’s entertainment industry has developed a platform for mythic ritual. After setting the ritualized “stage,” this book turns to the practices in Disneyland proper, analyzing the patron’s traditions within the framework of the park and beyond. It explores Disneyland’s spectacles, through selected shows and parades, and concludes with an exploration of the park’s participation in ritual renewal. “There is much to commend in Koehler’s study . . . Surely, her work should encourage others to examine myth construction and sacred-secular rituals in popular culture.”—H-Celebration