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A Portrait of Walt Disney World: 50 Years of The Most Magical Place on Earth (Disney Editions Deluxe) - Hardcover

Kern, Kevin M.; O'Day, Tim; Vagnini, Steven

 
9781368052849: A Portrait of Walt Disney World: 50 Years of The Most Magical Place on Earth (Disney Editions Deluxe)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1368052843 ISBN 13: 9781368052849
Verlag: Disney Editions, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This must-have coffee table book paints a robust portrait of the Walt Disney World Resort through more than 100 vibrant voices and 500 rare Disney theme park visuals, including concept art, photographs, and ephemera.

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, Walt Disney World celebrated its opening in 1971. It featured a theme park dubbed the Magic Kingdom and three exquisitely themed resorts: Disney's Contemporary Resort, Disney's Polynesian Village, and Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground.

As Walt Disney World consistently grew and evolved through the five decades that have followed, certain themes keep reverberating: there's an appreciation for nostalgia, a joy in 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 options, world-class golf courses, vast shopping villages, and a transportation network unlike any other in the world resulted in fun 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.

A Portrait of Walt Disney World: 50 Years of The Most Magical Place on Earth serves as a treasure trove for pop culture enthusiasts, students of hospitality, artists, art collectors, and Disney fans.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kevin M. Kern began his career with the Walt Disney Archives in 2011. As the group's manager of research, he works predominantly with historical documents and artwork, and helps to facilitate company legacy and outreach projects, including oral histories and the development and installation of museum exhibitions. He's hosted special event programming for many business units across The Walt Disney Company and has had his writing featured in numerous publications.

Tim O'Day is a successful writer, public relations executive, ideation consultant, and events producer. His creative spark was behind creating an Olympic-size lap pool at Disneyland for U.S. Olympian swimmers, procuring a Disneyland star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, placing "Dumbo" in the Smithsonian, securing Dame Julie Andrews as the Disneyland 50th anniversary honorary ambassador, and having the pardoned White House Thanksgiving turkeys retire to the Disney parks. He has worked with almost all the Disney Legends and helped secure the National Medal of Arts from President George W. Bush for the legendary songwriters Richard and Robert Sherman in a White House ceremony. He most recently contributed to the Behind the Attraction docuseries, which will be releasing on Disney+.

Steven Vagnini is a show awareness producer for Walt Disney Imagineering, where he curates the stories behind the parks, resort hotels, and other experiences of the Walt Disney World Resort. He previously served on the staffs of the Walt Disney Archives, D23, and Disney Corporate Creative Resources after several years as a Walt Disney World cast member. He has produced a variety of special events, including for the Walt Disney World 40th and EPCOT 30th and 35th anniversaries, plus has written for several Disney publications, including having collaborated with Disney Legend Dave Smith on the latest editions of Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia.

Cover artist Fabiola Garza is a character artist at Disney Creative group in Orlando, Florida. During her career she has had the pleasure of working on the Little Golden Book for Pixar's Coco and designing the beloved turtle 'Olu Mel for Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa. She is also the author and illustrator of the award-winning children's book A Boy Who Became Pope: The Story of Saint John Paul II. During her free time she enjoys ballroom dancing, the work of G. K. Chesterton, and contributing to Catholic publications and podcasts. Her favorite Walt Disney World attraction is Spaceship Earth.

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IT TAKES PEOPLE. . . .

Over the past five decades, guests from almost every corner on the globe have traveled here to have fun and experience joy in the company of family, friends, and colleagues. Their smiles and happiness have contributed to a legacy of joy, inspiration, and new knowledge that will endure as long as people believe in the power of imagination and in celebrating together in its wonder and promise.

Since plans for the Walt Disney World Resort were announced in 1965, cast members and Imagineers have come together as loving caretakers of Walt Disney’s greatest dream. They nurtured the “Florida Project,” from inception to reality, and through their dedication, hard work, and enthusiasm have been the true magic makers behind the perpetual creation of “The Most Magical Place on Earth.”

Our book is dedicated to all of them—guests, cast members, and Imagineers alike.

Together, they have made the dream a reality.
 
CONTENTS
 
8―FOREWORD
10―PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE
12―Destination: Florida: Disney Roots in the Sunshine State
CHAPTER TWO
18―Building the Dream: The Making of the “Florida Project”
56―Why Not Florida? The Inspiration and Optimism of Walt Disney: Looking Back with Disney Legend Dick Nunis
62―From Forest City to the Vacation Kingdom: Looking Back with Debby Dane Browne
70―A Grandson’s Appreciation and Memories: Looking Back with Roy Patrick Disney
CHAPTER THREE
74―Framing Our Portrait: A Thematic Compass
CHAPTER FOUR
80―Nostalgia: An Idealized Yesteryear
CHAPTER FIVE
130―Fantasy: The Art of Make Believe
CHAPTER SIX
176―Discovery: Adventure and Exploration
CHAPTER SEVEN
244―Tomorrow: A Step into the Future
CHAPTER EIGHT
284―Reflections: Looking Back at the World
CHAPTER NINE
298―The World’s Most Magical Celebration: The Fiftieth Anniversary of Walt Disney World
304―INDEX
308―BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ENDNOTES
318―IMAGE CREDITS
319―ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
PREFACE
 
THERE’S NOTHING SMALL ABOUT UNDERTAKING a portrait of Walt Disney World. It’s twenty-seven thousand acres in size, spreads out forty square miles, and has been five decades in the making. It’s a gargantuan narrative endeavor that encompasses the resort’s storied inception through its now worldwide reputation as a global travel institution. It’s at the crossroads of escapism, reassurance, recreation, innovation, artistry, craftsmanship, and ingenuity.
 
When Walt Disney passed away in 1966, six months prior to breaking ground on the “Florida Project,” esteemed TV news journalist and author Eric Sevareid eulogized the master showman by stating that he “was an original” and a once-in-a-lifetime “happy accident.” The sprawling resort that now bears Walt Disney’s name was obviously no “happy accident.” Like its famous namesake, Walt Disney World is an original. Nothing like it existed before its opening in 1971, and nothing has since been created that can match the ambitiousness of its concept, the impressiveness of its realization, and the endurance of its appeal and legacy. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of this most unique of international landmarks, we felt it was important to chronicle its first half century with a commemorative book. Such a book is warranted—if only for the positive effect the resort has had on so many lives through the years, plus its undeniable impact on our collective consciousness and the international family travel dynamic.
 
Prior to The Walt Disney Company’s arrival in Florida there were few true multiday resorts catering to families, with the possible exception of the U.S. national parks. With its debut, Walt Disney World invented anew the family-vacation experience and created a fresh travel, destination, and hospitality paradigm. It has also grown to represent the power of a singular imaginative vision that has been carefully nurtured, expanded upon, and realized by Walt’s creative heirs.
 
Aside from its status as an internationally recognized travel destination, to many people around the globe a visit to Walt Disney World transcends the notion of just a vacation. It has come to be a rite of passage, an essential escape, and a source of comfort, delight, and rejuvenation. Visitors from every hemisphere, and of every conceivable background and origin, have shared the unmistakable feeling of youthful excitement as they arrive at the resort’s gates, knowing “magic” awaits in any direction.
 
Disney Legend John Hench, former senior vice president, Walt Disney Imagineering, once noted, “[w]hether we go to a Disney park or a ball game, there is always the excitement of deciding to go and planning what to take and to wear, the anticipation of arrival, and the pure pleasure of walking through the entrance with the intention to play.” Although referencing the Disney parks experience overall, Hench could have easily been describing Walt Disney World, especially when he adds that the experience provides “the opportunity to feel more alive.”
 
With this book, our goal is to provide a finely nuanced portrait utilizing rarely seen artwork and photos, plus newly uncovered historical material and updated information that captures the milestones and essence of the resort throughout its first fifty years. We aim to highlight many fine details in the Walt Disney World story, providing a narrative thread that showcases its constant “state of becoming”—always informed by positive emotional connections and past achievements—while glimpsing at today and to what lies ahead and culminating in “The World’s Most Magical Celebration.” (We should also mention that our book has a companion publication, a cookbook and culinary history of the resort by Pam Brandon and Marcy Carriker Smothers, called Delicious Disney: Walt Disney World.)
 
All three of us have had the good fortune to work for The Walt Disney Company in different capacities and in a variety of areas through the decades, including Walt Disney World. But most importantly, like many of you, we have shared in laughter and play with family, friends, and colleagues many times over in what was initially dubbed “The Vacation Kingdom of the World.”
 
Today, each visit to Walt Disney World still brings us joy, inspiration, new knowledge, and appreciation. We hope this honorific portrait, in book form, does the same for you, providing an enhanced admiration for the remarkable achievement that was, is, and always will be “The Most Magical Place on Earth.”
 
—Kevin M. Kern | Tim O’Day | Steven Vagnini
June 2021
 
CHAPTER ONE
Destination: Florida
Disney Roots in the Sunshine State

THE FLORIDA DREAM
Over five hundred years ago, the first explorers from Europe charted a course across the Atlantic in search of a New World. Reaching terra firma along a breezy subtropical landscape they called Florida—a name inspired partially by its lush, verdant terrain—these early adventurers designated the peninsula as a destination for those seeking opportunity and enchantment. Here, age-old myths abounded. The most famous legend told of a mystical spring whose rejuvenating waters could restore one’s youth. There were more conspicuous allurements to Florida, too, including a favorable year-round...

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Verlag
Disney Editions
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1368052843
ISBN 13 
9781368052849
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Anzahl der Seiten
320
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