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Still happy hosts. Disney author,
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magazine editor, and creative director
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Maria March and Disney historian,
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author, event producer, PR guy blah blah
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blah Tim Oay.
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>> [applause]
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>> Hey everybody,
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[cheering]
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and Mr. blah blah blah has arrived. Have
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a seat, sir.
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>> Thank you very much. Thank you. So, did
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you hear that uh Seven Dwarfs marching
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music that uh they played a little bit
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of?
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>> You hear that?
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>> That that for me?
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>> Yeah.
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>> Yeah. because I'm short.
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>> So, it works on two levels.
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>> I love that for me.
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>> It's going to be that kind of show. So,
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despite what the voiceover just said, we
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are really happy to be with you here
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tonight and we hope that you are at
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least mildly amused and pleased to be
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here with us. You are, aren't you?
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[applause]
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>> That was mild.
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>> Yeah. Obviously, this is not the Big
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Disney Experiences Showcase, and clearly
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neither of us is Neil Patrick Harris.
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>> Hey, hey,
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>> I'm Ryan, and for better or worse, this
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handsome gentleman here is my buddy Tim.
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And uh over the next hour,
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we are going to test all of your ability
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to stay off your phones and not look for
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news alerts breaking from the Hudson
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Center.
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So, seriously, how are we going to keep
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them off their phones?
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>> Don't worry. I got this. I got this.
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Now, before the show,
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>> I had our tech team rig each of your
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chairs.
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Watch this.
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Rig each of your chairs with a with
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electronics and stingers,
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some of which we salvage from Oh, the
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It's tough to be a mug show.
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>> That's right.
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at Animal Kingdom. And it's all
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triggered by cell phone activity. That
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seems unsafe. [laughter]
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>> Yeah.
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>> Totally real and more likely safe. More
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more likely. [snorts] Um so let me
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demonstrate. Um young lady uh I think I
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talked to a young lady over Yeah. Yeah.
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Right over there. Yeah. Yeah. So in the
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in this row right over here. We spoke
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earlier, right? And we you were all
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prepped.
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>> Yeah.
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>> All right. Now, can do you have a phone
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on you?
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>> Okay, people, get out of the way. We're
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demonstrating. Sit down. You're
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interrupting my demonstration. You're
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crying out loud. Hello.
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>> No lightning lane for these people.
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All right, you have your phone, right?
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Okay, pick up your phone. Now, uh, on
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the count of three, I want you to hold
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that phone to your ear like you're like
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you're, uh, listening to the
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announcement from over at the park uh,
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update like they've announced the people
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mover coming back.
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[laughter]
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>> What are you kidding?
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Don't get excited. Okay, now I'm going
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to count back. I'm going to count back
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from three and we're going to see if
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this worked because well it well it sort
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of worked in rehearsal but when was the
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last time you actually showed to a
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rehearsal [laughter]
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well you know. All right.
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We we fixed the bugs in rehearsal. The
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the person wasn't really heard. Um okay.
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So you ready? Going to count down from
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three. Ready? Three 2 1
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>> You okay?
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>> Yeah, we're good. shaking, but it's
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okay.
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>> All right. All right. Good. So, if I see
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any phones
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like you.
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>> All right. Try it.
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>> All right. Are you done with this
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foolishness?
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>> What kind of foolishness do you want?
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>> My vision joke.
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Well played. Thank you. All right. But
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serious, let's get to the first of our
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great moments with Walt Disney. But
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before we do that, why don't you explain
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where we came up with the show title?
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>> Well, that easy part. was stolen.
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That's right. Uh, the inspiration struck
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me out at the opera house on Main Street
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at Disneyland. Now the home to Great
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Moments with Mr. Lincoln and Walt Disney
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A Magical Life.
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>> And just so there's no confusion when
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you head to that theater, uh, Lincoln is
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the guy with the beard, no mustache.
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Walt's the guy with the mustache.
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Lincoln saved the union. Walt discovered
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Anaheim and Orlando.
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>> [laughter]
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>> Thank you Ryan for that valuable
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insightful information.
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The point is with so much attention on
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Walt recently with Walt a magical life
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at Disneyland Disneyland handcrafted on
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Disney Plus. Who's seen it?
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And Walt hopping aboard the carousel of
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progress down at the Magic Kingdom at
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Walt Disney World. We thought it might
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be fun to take you back to that magical
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time when Walt was with us sprinkling
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his very own style of pixie dust on
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folks around the world. And working with
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our friends at the Walt Disney Archives
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and Walt Disney Imagineering and the
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Walt Disney Studios, we've assembled a
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curious collection of clips and images
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that celebrate the lighter and funnier
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side of Uncle Walt. So, what I love
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about the stuff we're about to share is
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that when you see this cross-section of
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Walt moments on screen, you quickly
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realize that the Walt on television,
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Walt the icon, really wasn't that
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different from Walt the Guy.
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>> That's true.
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>> And while neither Tim nor I ever knew
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Walt Disney personally, we felt like we
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know him and we still feel that just as
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many of you do. But that wasn't always
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the case. If you think back to the
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earliest years of the company, you know,
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while Mickey Mouse and the Silly
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Symphony shorts, and the early animated
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and live action films made Walt a
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household name in those early years, our
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only connection as fans to Walt were
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through magazine interviews, newspaper
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interviews, the occasional hit on radio.
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So, it was really the advent of
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television that gave us our first
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insights into Walt the guy, Walt the
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personality, and that's where he got to
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use these acting skills that his team
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had known for a long time. I've
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interviewed a lot of Disney animation
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veterans through the years for Disney
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Files magazine, and they all share
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stories about how Walt would act out all
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of these character parts while
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developing the stories, and those skills
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made him an instant television star.
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>> That's true. That's very true. So,
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that's right. Since Since Walt's role on
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TV was portraying Walt Disney, you'd
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guess that, you know, you could say it
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was a part that he was born to play. So,
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here's here this coming up. This very
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first TV production, a 1950 TV special
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called One Hour in Wonderland. Walt
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literally hams it up, conjuring the
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magic mirror from Snow White and Seven
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Words. Now, in this clip, you'll also
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see Katherine Bowmont, who is the Yes,
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let's hear for Kathy Bowmont, who is the
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voice of Alice from Alice in Wonderland.
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You'll see a cameo of Walt's daughters,
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Diane Sharon. And you'll see the great
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renowned ventriloquist and entertainer,
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Edgar Bergen, with his two wooden
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sidekicks, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer
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Stern. Now, two things to watch in this
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clip. You'll see Walt's very expressive
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eyebrows like that. That actually hurts
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actually.
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And and uh you'll see that if Walt
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doesn't get something right the first
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time, if he does it a second time
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louder,
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>> he might get he might get it right the
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second time. So, let's take a look at
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this clip from 1 hour in Wonderland.
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>> Hey everybody, tension. Now comes a big
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surprise.
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>> It all started a good many years ago
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when I was traveling through Europe. I
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happened to meet a fairy princess who
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had a cousin who used to work here at
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the studio. Now, she put me on to this
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wonderful magic mirror and I was finally
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able to buy it and I brought it back
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here to the studio.
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>> Mr. Disney, you knew the wonderful magic
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mirror that belonged to the wicked queen
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Snow White is is behind this curtain.
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>> It is. Now you [music] watch. You kids
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help me with the magic words.
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Bibity.
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Mommy. [music]
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Will you do magic, Mr. Disney?
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>> Oh, sure. I'm a little rusty, though.
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>> Oh, [music and singing] slave and the
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magic mirror come from the father's
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face.
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[music]
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>> How handy can you get? And do you girls
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know this character, Disney?
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>> Yes, he's our father.
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>> Don't worry, don't worry. I'll get it.
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Oh, leave in the magic mirror. Come from
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the father's face.
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Through wind and rain and heal I let me
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see your face.
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[music]
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>> [music]
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[music]
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>> I am here master.
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Oh god.
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Oh mirror mirror on the wall. Who is the
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mall?
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Are thou kidding?
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City slicker smile.
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I love that.
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It's crazy to think about how busy Walt
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Disney was at this time in his life. If
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you think about he's creating animated
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films like Cinderella and Alice and
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Wonderland and Peter Pan, at that same
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time he's getting into live action with
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films like Treasure Island and 20,000
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Leagues Under the Sea. He's starting to
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plan Disneyland Park and he's getting
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into this new fangled thing called
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television with the Disneyland TV
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series. He's a busy man.
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>> A show he both produced and hosted.
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Yeah. Today we think about people like
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Ryan Serest having a lot of jobs in show
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business. But by comparison, Serest
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seems kind of lazy.
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>> He's not here, is he? No. The weird
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thing about hosting at this event, you
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make a comment about a famous person,
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you might run into him in the green
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room.
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>> Yeah. I I I think you're fine, right?
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I'm sure he got into the Honda Center.
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It's going to be true.
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Now, there's one thing that uh Serest
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does and he he he does it well and he
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does it better than Walt and he's he's
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mastered the art of reading cute cards.
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And now, this wasn't among Walt's
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strengths. Um, as you'll see in this
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next clip, uh, from 1954, an episode of
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the Disneyland TV series, and it's
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called The Story of Dogs. Now, we're
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going to take a look at this. I want you
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to pay close attention to Walt's ey
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line. Right? So, I'm looking at all of
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you. I'm not looking down here, right?
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And so, as you watch this, watch where I
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where Walt's eyes are. It's not very
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subtle, but you also might be distracted
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by Walt's enormous shoulder pads. I'm
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not sure what's more distracting, his ey
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line or those shoulder pads. So, let's
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take a look at the story of dogs.
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Now, here is your host, Walt Disney. Our
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first dog star was Pluto.
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A lot of you probably remember Pluto,
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and you'll be renewing your acquaintance
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with him later on in the program. But
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right now, I want you to meet the stars
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of our latest dog picture, [music] Lady.
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>> So cute.
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>> And the
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Now, Lady in the has really been a
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fun picture to make.
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I remember another picture as being fun
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to make. That was Dumbo. Now, Leading
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the has that same quality. It was
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an original story to start with and as
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we made the picture and got to know the
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characters, we kept getting new ideas
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and we had to fully wait to expand them
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because there wasn't any set story line.
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Now, that's what I mean by this being a
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fun picture. Now, we've had a lot of
12:46
requests from people who want to know
12:48
how we put our pictures together. So,
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for this part of the program, I want to
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give you an idea of how we went about
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making Lady in the Well, first we
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must find our stars. And being a dog
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picture, we naturally looked at a lot of
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dogs. And they were a mighty appealing
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bunch.
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[music]
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Almost any of them had what it takes to
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be a star.
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>> [music]
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>> But we finally decided that this little
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charmer was a perfect choice for Lady
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[music]
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and that this fellow was far and away
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our best bet to play the trail.
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It's pretty good.
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Now to be fair, Walt soon became much
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more natural in front of the camera. And
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our next clip finds Walt in what I think
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was his top form as a TV host. Why don't
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you set this one up? Well, now that
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episode of course was from the
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Disneyland TV series and then focused on
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Lady the But now in our next
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clip, Walt takes us behind the scenes of
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a soon to be released film, which I'm
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sure many of you have seen, a classic
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called Old Yeller in an episode called
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The Best Doon Dog in the World. Now,
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Walt's co-star in this clip is his very
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own dog, Lady, which many biographers
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think was his Walt was Walt's favorite
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dog. And as Ryan mentioned that uh this
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is Walt at his very best and he is
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charming in this clip. He is the Uncle
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Walt we all know and love. So let's take
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a look at Walt and uh
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I'm laughing cuz I'm looking at these
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pictures and they're just too damn cute.
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So let's take a look at the clip
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here. I want you to sit up
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pretty
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pretty pretty.
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>> And now your host, Walt Disney. You
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know, to every dog owner, his dog is the
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best dog on dog in the world, and I felt
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the same way myself. I've had all sizes,
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shapes, and breeds. And right now, my
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candidate for the honor is Lady here, a
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miniature poodle. Before Lady, we owned
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a large-siz standard poodle. And I used
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to think that she was the only female in
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my family that really understood me.
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I've always had some kind of dog around.
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In fact, when I was a boy delivering
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papers back in Kansas City, I had a
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whole army of them. I used to buy
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baloney and all along my paper route,
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I'd have dogs waiting for me and the
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baloney. They were all mongrels and
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moochers, [music] but good pals just the
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same.
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Later on, we had little cockers, big
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shepherds, and a keys hound. And when my
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daughters were small, a child. And you
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couldn't want a better guardian for
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children. Every one of my dogs at the
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time was the best doggotten dog of all.
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And now it's little lady.
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She's small, but uh she's easy on the
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brickle brack around the house. She's a
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personality in her own right. In fact, I
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had a little trouble getting her to
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appear on this program with me. You
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know, she watches television herself,
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and so she insists on some dogs out
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there in the audience. If you have a
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pooch who's a member of your family,
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invite him in. Let your dog have a front
16:15
row seat because this hour is going to
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be all about dogs and the wonderful
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things they do. Our motion picture Old
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Yeller was taken from this book by Fred
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Gibson [music] who based his story on
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the true tales his parents used to tell
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about frontier dogs. You know there have
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been some great dog stories written call
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of the wild bar sinister the hound of
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Florence to name only a few. But this
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old yard to our way of thinking is one
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of the best of all time. Lady you like
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this book. Here's how it begins. We call
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it an old yeller. The name had a sort of
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double meaning. One part meant that his
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short hair was a dingy yellow, a color
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that we call yellow in those days. The
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other meant that when he opened his
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head, the sound he let out came closer
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to being yell than a bark. I remember
17:05
like yesterday how he strayed in out of
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nowhere to our log cabin on Bird Song
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Creek.
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>> I don't think Lady would like all of
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that book. You know how that's right.
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>> Yes. It ends with a bang.
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See, I told you too soon, Tim.
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>> Moving right along.
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Well, our next clip finds Walt uh in
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1957 in an episode called All About
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Magic. Now, remember the sorcerer Yans
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Mickey and Fantasia? While Yenset has
17:39
nothing on Walt, as you'll see in this
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tour of the magic prop department at the
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studio, which was actually the studio
17:46
morg, where they kept all the uh
17:48
animation uh artwork and things. So,
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we're going to take a look at this. Now,
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I want you to watch this where um you
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got to listen very carefully, but uh
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you'll hear Walt being affected by some
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of the props. You'll hear Walt go ouch
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because some of the uh the tricks are a
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little hot as you'll hear. And uh if you
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look very closely, you might see how
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some of these tricks are done. So take a
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look at uh all about magic, if you will.
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[music]
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>> Liberty, comedy.
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>> [music]
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[music]
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>> Well, let's start with a few simple
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things. Here's one that's called a
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flowery chap dish. After you're through
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using the shaving dish, you merely put
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the lid on it like this, give it a magic
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word, bibbidity bobby, and take it off.
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all the beautiful [music] centerpiece.
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Now
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[laughter]
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kick out of
19:05
it's called making many out of one. This
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little tube.
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Take this flower. Throw it through like
19:12
that. Nothing happens.
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But if you add the magic words to it,
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bibbidity [music] bobby boom.
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Got this one. Now here's one that you
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know thou had pride in your fatheration
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by concentration
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placing the hands on the table and
19:35
concentrating you make it rise to the
19:37
air. [music]
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I've probably done that many times. It's
19:46
no trick to you. But try the hard way.
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What a,000bs.
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table wasn't that
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then
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you have to use the magic word liberty
20:05
bomby boo
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[music]
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see what happens when you use magic
20:16
words [clears throat]
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of course you all know there's a trick
20:19
to it anyway
20:21
now over Here
20:24
is a lovely little dish. The decapitated
20:27
princess
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[music] looks very lifelike, doesn't
20:31
she? It's a wonderful conversation piece
20:34
of harness. Instead of flowers, you can
20:36
put orders in things. If you ever lose
20:40
some, a magic word or two will keep you
20:43
from talking to yourself.
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Bibbidity bobby.
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Hello, princess.
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>> Hello.
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>> How are you? Oh, I'm fine. How are you?
20:53
Oh,
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>> I'm fine, thank you.
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>> What time is it?
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>> Well, as far as you're concerned, it's
20:58
the mid 20th century.
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>> The 20th century.
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>> No, don't get Lauren, princess. Just go
21:03
back to sleep. Much
21:06
pivity. Poverty.
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Sleep process. Sleep.
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>> Okay, then
21:18
put more things. Where do you go from
21:20
there?
21:22
>> Well, let's stick with the theme of
21:23
magic and talk about the film Summer
21:25
Magic. Here you see Walt on set in
21:27
Burbank. If you hear squeal, that was
21:29
probably our friend Stacia Martin in the
21:31
audience who makes a sound every time
21:33
she hears the words Summer Magic. Now,
21:36
what's rare about this clip we're going
21:37
to share is that it captures Walt both
21:39
before and after the tape. Why don't you
21:41
set this up for us?
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>> Yeah. So, this is an outtake from Walt's
21:44
introduction to summer magic from the
21:46
wonderful world of color. Now, you have
21:48
to listen to this very carefully because
21:50
the clip begins and ends with wall being
21:52
caught off guard and there's obviously a
21:55
joke that has happened. All right? When
21:57
the camera gets picked up and you'll
22:00
you'll notice that there's a little chy
22:02
going on and uh you'll you'll you'll
22:04
catch that and uh and then at the very
22:07
end you'll get Walt commenting on his
22:10
own performance which is pretty comical.
22:14
And now this is a little rough clip. You
22:16
know, this is not pristine. So, we'll
22:18
take a look at this. But this is really
22:20
fun nonetheless. So, let's take a look.
22:25
>> 3358 L one take five.
22:29
>> Ladies on the set.
22:34
>> I was just reading here in this book of
22:36
poems written in the 11th century by
22:38
Omar Cayenne. Uh, we are no other than a
22:42
moving role of magic shadow shapes that
22:45
come and go, which is a pretty good
22:48
description of television, wouldn't you
22:49
say?
22:51
Well, our story which took place some
22:53
years ago is about summer and about
22:56
magic, too. Now, there's an enchantment
22:59
about summer. Enchantment is another
23:01
word for magic. And we're going to show
23:04
you what happened in one magical summer
23:06
that changed the lives of an entire
23:09
family, the Kerry family. And those
23:11
magic shallow shapes have come and go,
23:14
as the poet said, we'll show you what it
23:16
was.
23:19
That's a temple. Now, in just a minute,
23:22
we'll be back to tell you a bit about
23:23
our next show.
23:26
That's very sweet.
23:29
>> Very sweet. [clears throat]
23:31
So, we go now from summer magic to a
23:33
clip that finds Walt in the magical
23:35
place that most captured my imagination
23:37
when I was a kid watching these shows
23:39
and reruns on television. And that is
23:42
the workshops of the place we know today
23:43
as Walt Disney Imagineering.
23:45
>> Yep. Yep. So, in this clip, Sharp Eyes
23:48
will find well-known Imagineers Fred
23:50
Jerk and Harriet Burns in the
23:52
background. And as Walt shares some of
23:54
his enthusiasms for uh some new
23:57
additions to Disneyland such as Nature's
23:59
Wonderland, some new additions to the
24:01
Storybook Land canal boats, uh Snow
24:03
White's Wishing Well and Grotto, plus
24:05
the Disneyland Montreal. Now, if there's
24:08
anybody from Los Angeles, we'll give a
24:10
big sigh as Walt plans out his vision
24:13
for what futuristic modern rail
24:15
transportation would look like in
24:17
downtown LA.
24:19
Now, does anybody commute?
24:22
All right, don't cry at this when you
24:24
see it. Let's take a look.
24:31
[music]
24:32
The old saying, these are the things
24:35
that dreams are made of, might well
24:37
apply to these scale models and the
24:40
drawings and uh blueprints.
24:45
At least when we dream up new ideas for
24:48
Disneyland, they first take shape and
24:51
form in such preliminary [music] studies
24:53
as this. It has been said that
24:57
Disneyland will never be completed. In
25:01
fact, I said that there will always be
25:04
something new and unusual. That's our
25:06
hope. In Frontier Land, even the past
25:10
has a future.
25:12
For instance, we redesigned the entire
25:15
desert area and expanded it way out to
25:18
there. We added more wildlife.
25:22
Mountains and waterfalls appeared and it
25:25
has become nature's wonderland.
25:28
In story book land, many new chapters
25:30
will be added.
25:32
[music]
25:33
A topiary garden such as this model is
25:37
one of them. Topiary, the training of
25:40
trees and shrubs to grow into odd shapes
25:43
is almost a lost art. But in fantasy
25:47
land, where anything can happen, even
25:49
trees in animal forms will come to life
25:52
and walts and dance something like this.
25:55
[music]
26:03
Since Disneyland opened in 1955,
26:07
each year has seen many changes, [music]
26:09
and 1961 is no exception. Snow White's
26:13
Wishing Well and Fountain, complete with
26:15
all seven dwarfs awaits Fantasy Land's
26:18
visitors. In Tomorrowland, the Monteray,
26:21
which started operations only 2 years
26:23
ago, has already outgrown its original
26:26
circuit.
26:28
Its new extension leaves the
26:29
Tomorrowland area of the park to
26:31
parallel a modern freeway. [music]
26:34
Along this stretch, the Montreal's
26:36
passengers can experience a practical
26:38
application of transportation of the
26:40
future. Appropriately called a highway
26:43
in the sky, the new Disneyland Montreal
26:46
system covers 2 and 1/2 miles. Not only
26:49
is the Montreal system an entertainment
26:51
[music]
26:51
attraction, but its new extension links
26:54
the park with the Disneyland Hotel.
26:58
It is not impractical to believe that
27:00
such a monal system could well be the
27:03
answer to the growing traffic congestion
27:05
in our cities.
27:08
[music]
27:14
>> [music]
27:21
[music]
27:22
>> Well, I guess you could call it
27:24
daydreaming, but that's the way
27:26
Disneyland was conceived. A dream that
27:29
grew into a reality.
27:32
>> That Montreal is coming soon, right?
27:33
>> Yes. Yes, indeed.
27:36
>> I want that Montreal. Don't you?
27:39
So Tim, I mentioned earlier that neither
27:41
you nor I ever had the opportunity to
27:43
know Walt Disney, but we have had the
27:45
chance to work with and befriend members
27:47
of the Disney family, including
27:49
>> the late great Disney legend Roy E.
27:52
Disney, who I'm honored to say was one
27:54
of my mentors during some of the most
27:56
formative years of my career. You worked
27:58
a lot with Roy E. And it was through Roy
28:00
E that we met his son, Roy Patrick
28:02
Disney, a former Imagineer who is still
28:04
a very dear friend. I'd actually invited
28:07
Roy Patrick to be part of this show and
28:09
I was so confident we could do it. I
28:10
even had the D23 team at his photo to
28:13
the app description of the show and we
28:15
love to see from um I texted him before
28:17
the show. Haven't heard back but uh
28:19
maybe there's
28:20
>> Well, you know, he's probably at the
28:21
Honda Center with Brian.
28:25
>> Did Roy Patrick ever show you that photo
28:27
he has of him uh playing in the sand
28:31
where Cinderella Castle would be built
28:32
in Florida? It's super cool.
28:34
>> Yeah. Yeah, he did. did. But you know,
28:36
Ryan, he he he returns my texts and
28:38
phone calls, so you should had him call
28:40
me and reach out to me.
28:41
>> All right, big picture. Well,
28:42
>> you know, Tim, there's still time.
28:44
There's still time.
28:52
[applause]
28:59
[applause]
29:00
>> Thank you. I'm flattered. Um, by the
29:03
way, the Montreal
29:05
at $3 million a mile versus the subway.
29:07
At a billion dollars a mile, somebody
29:09
tell me
29:12
why Walt wasn't the visionary. Please.
29:15
Hello. Yeah.
29:18
>> What are you going to do? What are we
29:20
going to do? Well, anyway, so it's great
29:21
to have you with us. Of course.
29:23
>> Thank you.
29:24
>> Was that the worst planned entrance
29:26
ever? Was that the phoniest entrance
29:28
we've ever come up with?
29:31
Anyway, so uh so uh we were talking
29:36
about you as you obviously heard
29:38
>> good or bad.
29:39
>> Wow. And we were talking about the fact
29:41
that you were an imagineer. We were just
29:43
talking about this earlier that we kind
29:45
of cross that imaginary a little bit,
29:47
but we we were talking about this photo
29:50
which you kind of gave us which is one
29:53
of the great photos that anybody could
29:55
possibly have. Can you explain this to
29:58
us?
29:59
So, one of the jobs that Walt gave my
30:01
dad was to drive from Los Angeles with
30:04
the four of us in a station wagon with
30:06
sealed up windows, chain smoking
30:08
parents,
30:10
a rear safe facing back seat.
30:12
>> I didn't mean to go into that detail
30:14
>> and and no seat belts. Well, I'm just
30:16
proving that we survived.
30:19
But one of his jobs was to drive all the
30:20
way down to Florida, all the way to Key
30:22
West, and figure out the entertainment
30:25
structure of the state of Florida in the
30:27
late60s. This is 1968.
30:32
Man, this is crazy. Yeah, I think we
30:34
have another slide with some images that
30:36
uh as long as you're here, you can
30:37
describe these instead of me and Tim
30:40
like that one. [laughter]
30:44
So, yeah,
30:46
you got to represent when you're carry
30:49
that last name. And uh on the on the
30:51
left is my grandparents, Roy and Edna,
30:54
and how I had to dress.
30:59
Um, funny story about that. They, my
31:01
parents used to say you could freerange
31:02
the park if you wanted to just be back
31:04
at city hall at noon and if you get
31:06
lost, ask a security guard and they'll
31:08
get you back to city hall.
31:11
First time I ever tried that, I said my
31:13
name and he said, "Uh-huh."
31:16
And then the other photo is my parents
31:18
and the four of us were each a year
31:21
apart and it's just a classic Disneyland
31:24
picture in my opinion.
31:26
>> I love this. Can we have one more slide?
31:27
I'd love for you to talk us through
31:29
>> some fun Walt photos.
31:32
>> Well, I love these,
31:34
>> you know. Come on. Uh, so Roy, Walt was
31:38
56 when you were born. He passed away
31:40
when you around 11. Uh, so he literally
31:43
grew up around him. So, was he playful,
31:46
a bit goofy, or did you see the Walt
31:48
that wore the wounded bear suit, as they
31:50
used to call it?
31:51
>> Ah, the bear suit. So Walt was um I mean
31:56
this is a man that worked 22 hours a day
31:58
and uh worked 7 days a week and could
32:01
never turn his brain off. But that said,
32:04
there were days when he was in a good
32:06
mood and there were days when he was in
32:08
a slightly more intense mood. And the
32:13
security guards at the front gate of the
32:14
studio could recognize the tight jaw and
32:18
the tight thin lipped cigarette in his
32:21
mouth.
32:23
And they would they were told by the
32:25
animators to call up to the animation
32:26
floor
32:28
and report that on that particular day
32:30
Walt was wearing the bear suit.
32:34
So the guys knew, the people knew, not
32:37
guys. The the women and men on that
32:39
floor knew what to expect that day.
32:42
[clears throat]
32:43
Now Roy, your dad told me a great story.
32:45
You mentioned Walt's brain and he told
32:46
me a story about how keen a memory Walt
32:49
had and your dad learned this the hard
32:51
way as a film editor working. Can you
32:53
share that story?
32:54
>> Yeah, sure. So, uh, my dad told me that
32:57
that one of Walt's reputations was
32:59
wandering the hallways and he would come
33:00
into your office and um, you know, what
33:04
do you have? And it it better damn well
33:06
be good. [laughter]
33:09
And and Walt was not a mean uh employer.
33:12
He was he he would always tell you that
33:15
there was more in you and he had a way
33:19
of getting it out of you. So my dad
33:22
spent a lot of his time doing nature
33:24
films as a as a as as a young producer,
33:26
writer, director, filmmaker, and I've
33:29
worked on three of those myself, so I
33:30
know how hard they are.
33:32
um showed Walt a clip of a goose landing
33:36
on a lake and the goose did an awkward
33:39
nose dive and crashed in the water and
33:42
then the film cut
33:45
and Walt said, "Where's the rest of it?"
33:49
And my dad was entirely embarrassed and
33:52
said, "Oh, well, I'm going to have to go
33:54
back to the editing room to find the
33:55
rest of that." Well, reality, there was
33:59
no rest of it. So my dad now panicking
34:03
called up to the a bunch of producers
34:05
and filmmakers up in Canada shooting
34:06
stuff. Begged them begged them to film a
34:11
landing goose doing a nose dive.
34:14
So 3 weeks later he cuts that into that
34:17
original piece of footage, shows it to
34:19
Walt, and Walt said, "Yeah, see I knew
34:22
you had that.
34:26
Don't question Walt." That's right. Now,
34:29
we've just shared some intense stories
34:30
about Walt, but our next clip is going
34:32
to be one that finds Walt very much at
34:34
play. And this is a clip that involves
34:37
Disney legends, two of Walt's top
34:39
animators and effects guys, Bill Justice
34:41
and Exitio. I never had the opportunity
34:44
to meet Bill. I did work with X. I had
34:46
Exotensio on a Disney Vacation Club
34:48
member cruise, and I remember him taking
34:50
an uncommon amount of joy in ridiculing
34:53
my taste in cocktails. I still stand by
34:55
those fruity drinks. They're delicious.
34:57
And you worked with both of them, right?
34:59
>> I did. I I worked with almost all the
35:01
Disney legends. And uh Bill Justice,
35:04
boy, I I felt bad for the restaurants
35:06
that we frequented because he never met
35:10
a cloth napkin that he didn't draw on.
35:14
Uh and with with you know, you you knew
35:17
him uh with a Sharpie. And uh he got
35:21
great service, man, because he would
35:23
give away those napkins to the waiters
35:25
and the weight staffs and everything.
35:26
But from the moment he sat down, he
35:28
started sketching. It was Chip and Dale
35:30
and and Donald Duck mainly. And and uh
35:33
yeah, he he was quite the character. And
35:35
then Exitio,
35:37
I'm telling you, every pirate in Pirates
35:39
of the Caribbean represented some aspect
35:41
of Exotencio. So when you met X, you met
35:45
the entire cast of Pirates of the
35:46
Caribbean. And they were just great
35:49
guys. And uh they were just a lot of
35:52
fun. And of course, X wrote the the Yoho
35:55
Pirate song. So, that was a little bit
35:58
of his personality showing through. But
36:00
what we're going to show you here is a
36:01
clip from uh a rag, a bone, and a box of
36:04
junk.
36:05
>> Now, see, Roy, that's how we should have
36:06
named the show. Ryan, a Roy
36:09
>> and a box of junk. Thank you very much.
36:17
>> I have friends.
36:20
Anyway, this is a great clip uh that
36:23
you'll see here. And um uh uh as you can
36:27
see by this this photo up here, Bill
36:29
Justice and Exitio did all the great
36:32
stop motion animation for things like
36:34
the Parent Trap and Mary Poppins and
36:37
things like that. So, we're going to
36:38
take a look at this and uh it's going to
36:41
be great. So, let's take a look at a
36:42
rag, a bone, and a box of junk.
36:49
>> [music]
36:54
>> on this program. A bit of magic. That's
36:57
what the show's all about. You know,
37:00
when I arrive at the studio in the
37:01
morning, my desk is always nice and
37:04
neat. But it doesn't take long for it to
37:06
look like this. However, instead of
37:09
bothering my busy secretaries with house
37:11
cleaning problems, I tidy up myself.
37:14
It's really quite easy. Watch.
37:15
[clears throat]
37:18
Now, here we go. A one, a two, 10, 1.
37:23
[music]
37:29
That's
37:32
now.
37:35
[music] That's it. That's good. Now,
37:37
don't overdo it.
37:40
This eraser or one like it and scores of
37:44
other inanimate optics will be the stars
37:46
of this program. By using the magic of
37:49
stop motion photography, we find it is
37:51
possible to give life to anybody. No
37:54
thanks. I've had enough coffee for now.
37:56
On this program, we had two very unusual
37:59
subjects and our production of them was
38:01
entirely different from anything we had
38:04
ever done before. When we decided to
38:06
make these pictures, we set up a rather
38:08
unique department that specialized in
38:10
this sort of thing. At first, I wasn't
38:13
sure if they were junk collectors or
38:14
artists, but I'd like to show you how it
38:16
happened. And by moving magic, we'll
38:19
find ourselves in the workshop.
38:21
[music]
38:25
Sorry I kept you waiting. I forgot my
38:26
box of junk. Which leads me to what I
38:29
was saying a short ago. This explains my
38:32
box of junk. Notice the phone. When you
38:35
clean out the attic, [music] basement or
38:37
your garage, call us before you call the
38:40
jug. You may be harboring a hidden
38:43
[music] movie actor. Your cooperation
38:46
will be appreciated. DS, we can use
38:49
anything. From the strange assortment of
38:51
packages I've seen coming into the
38:53
studio, I'd say the boys are getting a
38:54
favorable response to this notice.
38:56
>> I won't.
38:57
>> Hi, Mark. I see you cleaning out your
38:59
attic.
38:59
>> No garage. We don't have an attic.
39:01
>> Oh, that's too bad. [music]
39:05
Just put it down. Don't rush.
39:07
>> Well, here's my contribution. How's
39:09
everything going?
39:10
>> Oh, fine, Marlo. We're waiting for Walt.
39:12
He's bringing in the television
39:14
audience.
39:16
>> Oh, hi, Walt.
39:16
>> Hi, Walt.
39:17
>> Hi, fellas. I brought my box of junk and
39:20
the television audience.
39:22
>> Oh, hi. We'll be ready in a jiffy.
39:23
>> We're just assembling the cast.
39:25
>> Thanks, Mara. Don't forget us the next
39:28
time you clean out your attic.
39:30
>> Garage. We don't have an attic.
39:35
Boy, the response to the bulletin should
39:37
brought in a lot of junk.
39:38
>> I guess every clean house over the
39:40
weekend,
39:41
>> including Mrs. Disney. She's had that
39:43
box over there.
39:44
>> Yeah. Same thing to me about that.
39:47
Oh, no. This must pret. She can't do
39:51
that. Still my favorite hat. This thing
39:55
hasn't gone out of style yet.
39:59
Can't trust these wives with these dark
40:00
kitty powers.
40:02
Always the first to go.
40:04
>> Oh no, my grandson loved Look
40:07
guys, you got to put a hole in those
40:09
box.
40:10
>> Well, [music]
40:12
we're about ready to get on with the
40:13
show. Well, the cast is about set.
40:15
Here's old Father Noah and his three
40:17
sons, and I'm going to make a moose out
40:20
of that, a goat out of that, and a
40:23
flamingo out of that stuff.
40:25
Look, I thought you guys said you'd have
40:27
it all assembled by the time I brought
40:29
the TV audience.
40:30
>> Well, assembling's the easy part. It's
40:32
gathering all this junk that's so tough.
40:34
>> Well, if it's so easy, let's see how
40:36
quick we can get it assembled like this.
40:38
>> Okay. Okay. This is a little trick I
40:42
learned from Mary Poppins.
40:44
>> Hey, how about that?
40:46
>> How'd you like to tie your hand and make
40:47
a hole? Well,
40:52
[music]
40:54
>> not a bad looking hippo, if I must say
40:56
so myself.
40:57
>> Oh, Walt, you say the cutest things.
41:01
>> Well, a cute little hippo like you
41:03
should have a mate. You fellas have been
41:05
getting away with murder. I'm going to
41:06
try it the hard way. Through a mirror
41:09
and over my shoulder. You can just
41:10
watch.
41:15
>> [music]
41:17
>> How do you like that? The three question
41:19
shot. What?
41:20
>> Not bad.
41:22
>> You're so round, so firm, so beautiful.
41:27
>> Oh, Harry, you say the cutest things.
41:32
>> Well, enough of this. Let's get on with
41:34
the show. You ready, boys? One, two.
41:42
Thought we went this way.
41:46
Now, Bill, will you please explain to
41:48
our audience what you're doing? Now, if
41:50
you folks out there have any questions,
41:52
[music] feel free to speak up. This is
41:55
our opening scene. That globe represents
41:57
the Earth at the time of the great day.
42:01
We have it suspended by very thin wire
42:03
that won't be picked up by the camera,
42:06
giving the appearance that it's actually
42:08
spinning in space.
42:10
>> What's the air hose for? It's a very
42:13
good question.
42:14
>> This is how we make the earth spin. Now
42:16
watch.
42:22
>> Very clever. Now, as Walt said, let's
42:25
get on with the show.
42:26
>> Okay, fellas. We're about ready for a
42:28
tape.
42:37
>> Roy, do you have any idea about that?
42:38
Uh, we don't have an addict running gag.
42:41
I don't get that. I have no idea about
42:42
that.
42:43
>> Any anybody? Cuz that's a running joke
42:45
throughout the entire episode.
42:47
>> Nobody
42:48
>> no idea what it means.
42:48
>> Yeah, we toured this show across the US
42:51
a couple years ago. Nobody could tell us
42:54
what that joke was about. About the
42:56
attic.
42:57
>> California houses don't have attit.
42:59
>> Well, thanks for that enlightenment.
43:01
Thank you.
43:03
We kind of figured that, but yes. Yeah,
43:06
we had no idea what that was about.
43:08
>> But only half the country would
43:09
understand that. Frank and Walt lived in
43:12
a writer's room and it feels like a
43:13
pavilion joke.
43:14
>> Yeah, maybe that's I think its origin.
43:17
>> Yeah. Well, I don't know. That was that
43:19
was craziness. But uh so the first
43:21
person who comes up with the answer of
43:23
what that joke really means, okay, I'm
43:27
serious about this.
43:28
>> They get Tim's car.
43:29
>> No.
43:30
who comes up with a regional explanation
43:32
will win a ride with Roy on the
43:36
returning People Mover when it's
43:37
announced tonight,
43:45
but you know that's not really
43:46
happening.
43:48
Anyway, speaking of the people mover
43:50
though, Roy, who's this handsome
43:51
gentleman in the People Mover?
43:53
>> So, that is my grandfather,
43:56
uh, Roy. And I'm not sure who the woman
44:00
is, but I expect she's a um a tour
44:02
guide.
44:03
>> Yeah, she is. Yeah.
44:06
>> And that's the best I can do.
44:09
>> Thank you very much. That was an awkward
44:11
segue. Okay, go ahead, Ryan.
44:13
>> So, this is one of my all-time favorite
44:15
characters. Ry, I'm a a proud Oregon
44:17
duck, so I love all the Disney ducks,
44:19
but Professor Von Drake might be one of
44:22
my favorites. You were a little kid when
44:24
this character came onto the scene. What
44:26
do you remember?
44:26
>> I'm about to significant.
44:27
>> We're both too young to remember this.
44:29
>> That's all right.
44:30
>> So,
44:30
>> well, you're
44:31
>> Well, let me explain. I'm 29 years old.
44:34
So,
44:36
>> what? [laughter]
44:39
>> They turn Roy. They turn on you very
44:41
fast.
44:42
>> They do. They do. My god. All right. 20
44:44
30. Okay. Uh, anyway, I remember my
44:48
black and white days. A lot of Disney
44:50
cartoons in those days were black and
44:51
white. Ludvig
44:54
Von Drake has the honor of being the
44:56
first uh color animated cartoon
45:00
character that Disney did
45:03
>> on TV.
45:04
>> On TV.
45:05
>> Yeah.
45:05
>> Yeah.
45:06
>> Well,
45:07
>> and I will tell you one other thing. Do
45:08
you Does anybody know who does the the
45:11
voice over in Haunted in Pirates rather?
45:14
>> Paul.
45:17
So Paul Freeze also did the voice for
45:20
Ludwick Von Drake.
45:22
>> How about that?
45:24
>> And he's very funny. He's very very
45:26
funny. Lud von Drake. Very very funny
45:29
character. So let's drop in on Walt and
45:31
Lud Von Drake, Donald's know-it-all
45:34
uncle. uh in this debut episode of The
45:37
Wonderful World of Color where where
45:39
Walt and Lud Bondre plug NBC and RCA
45:43
Color TVs in an oh so subtle fashion.
45:46
And as usual, you'll notice Walt having
45:48
a good time hamming it up for the
45:50
camera. So, let's roll them.
45:56
Here in our paint lab is where the whole
45:59
magic of colors.
46:01
For 30 years now, we've been living in
46:04
this exciting world of color. These are
46:08
earth colors, a gift from mother nature
46:11
who took millions of years to make them.
46:14
Others are created by the magic miracle
46:16
of modern [music] chemistry.
46:23
[music]
46:24
With such basic pigments as these, we
46:27
can make all the colors of the rainbow.
46:31
Girl, just a moment. Haven't you gotten
46:33
a word? We're in for
46:37
Oh, well, [music] a bit of color magic
46:39
will fix it.
46:42
Bibity vomity blue. [music]
46:47
I must have said the wrong words. Let's
46:49
see. Uh, I know.
46:53
NBC
46:54
color [music] TV.
46:59
That's more like it.
47:02
[music]
47:03
But to come back to the subject of
47:04
color, it is such a fascinating topic
47:08
that [music] we've invited the world's
47:09
foremost authority to throw some life on
47:11
the subject. He's a renowned scientist,
47:15
lecturer, psychologist, world traveler,
47:18
my old friend, and longtime associate,
47:20
professor
47:25
here. All right. Professor Ludri Bondre.
47:28
So here now to tell you all about the
47:30
wonderful world of color, Professor
47:32
Bonre himself.
47:34
>> Good evening. Now the first thing I
47:36
would like to SAY IS LOOK OUT THAT
47:38
CRAZY. WHERE ARE YOU GOING FOR THAT
47:39
THING? [laughter]
47:41
How do you like that? I thought it was a
47:42
motorcycle coming at me and it was the
47:44
spotlight was hitting me cuz I'm the
47:46
professor going to give a lecture.
47:48
[laughter]
47:49
Well anyway, let me introduce myself.
47:52
How do you do? I am Professor Ludic Bond
47:55
and today we are going to discuss the
47:58
wonderful world of color. In fact, I got
48:01
it all written down here in black and
48:02
white. Black and white. [laughter] But I
48:05
needed some notes in color. That's what
48:07
I really needed. This whole program is
48:09
being seen in color. H. And that's a
48:12
lie. You know that's a lie cuz only the
48:14
people with color TV sets is seeing it
48:16
in color.
48:19
Now for the occasion, I wore this vest.
48:22
Especially for you people with color
48:24
blind TV sets. I'm going to describe
48:26
this beautiful vest to you with all the
48:28
colors. Now there's red, there's blue,
48:30
there's orange, there's jade, green,
48:32
there's lemon yellow, and there's uh
48:35
there's pot roast. Pop roast. Pop roast
48:38
isn't that color. Oh, brown. That's what
48:40
it is. Oh, when you see this in gorgeous
48:43
full color, YOU KNOW SOMETHING? YOU'RE
48:45
GOING TO get sick.
48:47
I can't even stand it. All right. Now to
48:50
the subject. What was the subject I
48:53
forgot about? Oh, yeah.
49:02
All right. So, now it is time for what
49:04
is my very favorite clip in this entire
49:06
show. This comes from the Disneyland
49:08
Centennial Celebration. So, for
49:09
Disneyland's 10th birthday, Walt
49:11
produced a special episode of The
49:13
Wonderful World of Color that gave a
49:15
sneak peek at some upcoming attractions
49:17
at Disneyland. Now, the clip isn't rare.
49:20
Uh, this special has been widely seen
49:22
and if you're a diehard fan, which you
49:24
must be to have skipped the Honda Center
49:26
to hang out with us, um, it's no doubt
49:28
you've seen some of this footage, but to
49:30
see this after Tim shares its backstory
49:33
is to see it through new eyes like never
49:35
before. So, set this up for us.
49:37
>> All right. So, when I worked at
49:39
Imagineering, I've become pretty good
49:40
friends with John Hench, legendary John
49:42
Hench. And, uh, John had a reputation at
49:46
Imagineering. John uh was a little bit
49:49
of a ladies man and it was all a joke.
49:51
his his wife Lowry was very tolerant of
49:54
it and he used to read poems and things
49:57
like that and it was just a running gag
49:59
in Imagineering and so his reputation
50:02
you know kind of got around and it was
50:05
just meant as a joke and um John was uh
50:10
a very stern kind of personality too if
50:13
if you didn't know him he came off that
50:15
way and um but he had this great
50:19
relationship with Walt this working
50:21
relationship. And so he was telling me
50:24
this story one time of this episode,
50:29
filming this episode with Walt. And he
50:32
said that uh before they shot this, he
50:35
and Walt were having this discussion
50:37
about the Plaza Inn and this model that
50:41
you see before you. [clears throat] And
50:42
it hearkened back to a conversation that
50:44
they they had had about the Tiki Room
50:47
when Walt wanted to make the Tiki Room a
50:49
real restaurant. and wanted real birds
50:51
in the tiki room. And he had to explain
50:54
that you cannot have real birds in the
50:57
tiki room. And hence they changed the
51:01
tiki room into an attraction.
51:04
And so when it came time to do the plaza
51:07
in, Walt wanted an aviary as part of the
51:10
the restaurant. And once again, John had
51:12
to say you cannot have birds of any
51:16
kind. even if it's in a separate aviary,
51:18
you cannot have birds or live animals in
51:20
a restaurant. It just can't happen.
51:22
Well, again, before they were shooting
51:25
this,
51:27
Walt brings it up again and uh they're
51:30
having this kind of discussion and
51:32
Walter is saying, "You can't do this."
51:35
And so they're having this kind of
51:38
debate a little bit and Walter's kind of
51:41
chiding him about this. Now, Walt had
51:44
also known about John's reputation.
51:47
Now, you're about to shoot this. Okay.
51:52
And so,
51:54
as you watch this,
51:58
the the director just let it roll and
52:01
Walt kind of exacts his revenge.
52:05
And you'll watch this as Walt you'll see
52:10
Walt exacts his revenge. And at one
52:12
point, John looks straight at the camera
52:15
like like he's pleading at the director,
52:17
"Stop."
52:19
And he turns bright red.
52:22
And all their reaction shots and you
52:25
could just kind of see Walt kind of
52:27
being gleeful throughout this whole
52:28
thing. And I said, "Well, you know,
52:31
after the fact, were were you mad?" And
52:33
he goes, "What are you going to do? He's
52:35
my boss." Right? And they left the whole
52:37
thing in. And I think it's just
52:40
brilliant. It's just it's actually
52:42
pretty funny. And uh so when you watch
52:45
this, it's and and Bob Ger backed this
52:48
up as well that John had this, you know,
52:51
reputation and things. So take a look at
52:54
Disneyland 10.
52:56
>> And by the way, you play and John did
52:57
not like to be called
52:59
>> Oh yes, Johnny. He did not like to be
53:01
called Johnny at all. That that was No,
53:04
you did not call John Johnny. That was
53:06
not a thing until this.
53:10
Let's take a look.
53:13
>> Another way to go about the project.
53:15
This is a 1/8 in to a foot scale model
53:19
of the new restaurant that we're putting
53:21
in. We call it the Plaza and it's right
53:24
off the plaza. And it's going to be a a
53:27
period restaurant period about 1880 90
53:31
with beautiful interiors and the
53:34
salarium and all of that. And the people
53:36
can come in here, get their food, they
53:38
can eat inside or they can go out, they
53:40
sit in the garden. They can sit there
53:42
and watch people enjoy themselves and
53:44
the food's going to be really good, too.
53:46
Now, this is Harriet here. He's putting
53:49
in the little umbrellas and the tables
53:51
for the to actually this size of people
53:54
right there. That's a people
53:58
over here. Get another view of it. This
54:01
is Johnny Hench, who's in charge of this
54:03
particular project.
54:05
Uh, oh, you bet before. Well, wonderful.
54:09
He gets around, you know,
54:12
will explain to Juliet how uh what we do
54:15
in here with his own.
54:16
>> Yes, Julian. This is a more detailed
54:19
model of the paz in. Now, over here is
54:22
the serving area. And as you select your
54:24
food, you can see through the dining
54:26
room to a large salarium at the end.
54:28
>> Then here's the beautiful salarium. Tell
54:30
them about that. Get down and take a
54:31
peek in.
54:32
>> This is another view of the dining area.
54:34
I can see it's going to be very lovely.
54:36
>> And through the arches to your left, you
54:39
can see this large beautiful aviary
54:42
>> with birds, singing birds, canary birds,
54:44
finches in that beautiful tree.
54:52
>> It is. And you can have breakfast,
54:54
lunch, dinner, and Johnny looks as good
54:58
as someone else.
55:06
Can I can I quickly add a try John Hedge
55:10
story,
55:10
>> please? Sure.
55:11
>> Uh oh, look at that. Um
55:15
the [clears throat] stylized signature
55:17
that you see of Walt Disney is not
55:19
Walt's signature. As you may know and
55:21
may not know, it's John Hench.
55:24
>> So, a nice little connection.
55:26
>> That's true.
55:26
>> Yeah. So that brings us to this film, El
55:29
Blanco, which as we see here on the
55:31
screen, Roy, your dad helped uh
55:33
co-produce. Before we set this up, can
55:36
you give us a sense of the breadth of
55:37
films that your dad worked on in his
55:39
career, not just in the ' 50s and 60s uh
55:42
with Walt, but in the decades since he
55:44
worked on uh Mysteries of the Deep. He
55:47
worked on he worked on a ton of nature
55:49
films. Uh uh the living desert uh which
55:54
was basically a guy with a 8 millimeter
55:57
or 16 mm camera in a box with a
56:00
tarantula
56:02
in Palm Springs is basically where a lot
56:04
of the living desert was filmed. Um, and
56:07
so there and and I just to give you an
56:09
idea when I did my three films for
56:11
Disney, uh, uh, Kumba Dingo of the
56:15
Outback, uh, there was a a Beaver story.
56:19
Um, five people over the course of two
56:23
months could produce an entire hourlong
56:26
TV show for about $45 to $50,000.
56:30
You can't set up a commercial single
56:33
shot for $50,000. [laughter]
56:35
And we trained uh we trained all the
56:38
animals. Some in most cases we painted
56:40
them too. Don't tell anybody that. But
56:43
uh we built all the cages. We carried
56:45
cameras. I waited in creeks with
56:47
beavers. It's just
56:50
these are very adventurous films that we
56:52
did. And and if you see the picture of
56:54
my father at the movie with the man on
56:56
the to his left, that's Norman Palmer.
57:00
Uh who taught my dad how to sail. And
57:02
it's kind of where I learned how to sail
57:03
from that. That's cool. So,
57:07
>> oh, okay. Um, so the the next uh thing
57:11
we want to show you is uh and this is
57:14
our next to last um next to last clip.
57:17
Um I believe that Walt genuinely loved
57:20
being Walt Disney and uh you know he u
57:25
he he did it he played the the role so
57:28
well. He didn't do it out of arrogance
57:29
or egotism or anything. He just loved
57:32
being Walt Disney and he loved doing
57:35
these wraparounds on on the show and he
57:38
loved telling these diverse stories of
57:40
the different cultures and things and
57:42
this one show El Blanco shows this
57:45
better than anything and he really gets
57:48
into the spirit of the occasion and
57:51
you'll see this as he introduces this
57:54
story from Mexico and he did discover
57:58
this singing group that you're about to
58:00
see And they did release the song you're
58:03
about to hear and it is utterly
58:06
charming.
58:07
>> Do you know the name of the singing
58:08
group?
58:08
>> I do, but I that's I can't I can't let
58:11
this out. So, let's just take a look and
58:14
you'll learn all about El Blanco. So,
58:17
let's take a look.
58:21
>> This is the insignia of the
58:24
people-to-people [music]
58:24
organization,
58:26
and it represents a new form of an old
58:29
idea.
58:30
You see, for hundreds of years,
58:32
philosophers have been saying in one
58:34
[clears throat] way or another that a
58:36
stranger is really nothing more than a
58:38
friend you haven't met yet. Well, that's
58:41
the whole idea behind people to people.
58:44
People to people is a worldwide
58:46
organization of private citizens,
58:48
privately funded. And the movement was
58:51
started by the 34th president of the
58:53
United States, General Dwight D.
58:55
Eisenhower. Now his theory was that
58:58
there were plenty of diplomats and
59:00
statesmen who could get together and
59:02
talk to one another. [music] But he
59:04
figured if just plain people would get
59:07
together and listen to one another, they
59:10
might be our best ambassadors of
59:11
international goodwill. And you know
59:14
it's true. When people get to know and
59:17
understand each other, they very often
59:20
find they're really not much different
59:22
after all. Now get them all like that
59:24
rolling. They'll tell you what we could
59:26
do for world peace.
59:29
Recently, along with a number of other
59:31
North Americans, I made a trip to Mexico
59:34
as part of the people the people
59:36
program.
59:39
We'd gone down to visit the beautiful
59:42
city of Guadalajar that's in the state
59:44
of Aisco. And on our way back, we
59:47
stopped to visit in Mexico City. And it
59:49
was there [music] that we met this
59:51
wonderful quartet called Los Traia
59:55
which means three guys and a girl. I
59:58
like their music so much that I thought
1:00:00
I'd carry out the people the people
1:00:02
idea. So I brought them up here to meet
1:00:05
the people of our television audience.
1:00:07
Well, they're going to tell us a musical
1:00:10
story about that colorful land of
1:00:12
ancient temples, modern skyscrapers, and
1:00:15
timeless legends, Mexico. [music]
1:00:18
The lesson we're going to hear is called
1:00:22
[music]
1:00:23
That's
1:00:30
[singing and music]
1:00:36
[music]
1:00:38
up in the sky.
1:00:41
[singing]
1:00:43
I go
1:00:46
make the rain and make [music] yourself
1:00:52
dead. Go,
1:00:54
[music]
1:01:07
something new, something for everybody.
1:01:10
>> That's Mexico.
1:01:11
[music] Okay, I'll buy that. Where are
1:01:14
your costumes?
1:01:16
>> We are in our costumes, Mr. Disney.
1:01:18
>> Oh, no. Mara, what am I doing with this
1:01:21
stuff?
1:01:24
>> Uh, this is
1:01:25
>> Viola.
1:01:26
>> Viola,
1:01:27
Jacob,
1:01:30
Julio,
1:01:32
and Raul.
1:01:35
So, people people.
1:01:40
Now, before we get on with El Blanco,
1:01:42
I'd like to have you sing for the people
1:01:44
that song you sang for me in Mexico.
1:01:46
Which one do you mean? Well, I can't
1:01:48
remember the name in Spanish, but it
1:01:50
sounded very, very familiar to me.
1:01:59
[music]
1:02:10
No wonder.
1:02:15
[music]
1:02:22
[music]
1:02:24
[singing]
1:02:29
[music]
1:02:46
Is this yours?
1:02:54
>> You know, I know you're pretty modern
1:02:55
down here in Mexico, but really old
1:02:57
fashioned here. We do not use claw
1:02:59
stripes on our show. At least not yet.
1:03:02
>> Well, we thought it would be smart to
1:03:04
bring our own welcome. Oh, you shouldn't
1:03:07
worry about that. Look at all those
1:03:09
smiling people out there.
1:03:12
>> Anyways, let's get on with the story.
1:03:14
No, Mr. Disney, it is a lady. Of course,
1:03:16
they should have known. You know, Mexico
1:03:18
has lots of colorful leg. I've been down
1:03:21
there many times and I know a lot about
1:03:23
them. Now, I like that one about the
1:03:25
Aguila. You know the eagle and the
1:03:26
serapenti.
1:03:28
Serapiente therape. That's what I meant
1:03:31
to say. Therapente. Now let's see. It
1:03:33
goes something like this. Wherever they
1:03:35
found an eagle with a snake in his claws
1:03:38
sitting on a cactus. I think it was
1:03:40
Cortez who said that's where the city of
1:03:42
Mexico has to be built. Right there.
1:03:44
>> No, it wasn't Cortez. It was an old
1:03:47
chief long before Cortez.
1:03:49
>> Oh, yeah. I remember. His name was Papa.
1:03:53
>> Oh, no. That's a volcano. You're right.
1:03:57
It was a chief patch squar.
1:03:59
>> That's the name of a lake.
1:04:00
>> Was it so Mr. Disney? Why don't we get
1:04:03
on with our legend?
1:04:05
>> Well, maybe you're right. At least this
1:04:08
is one thing I'm sure of. Your legend is
1:04:10
about a horse.
1:04:12
>> A white horse. It was a big white horse.
1:04:15
>> It was a big white stallion.
1:04:16
>> She was a rain god.
1:04:17
>> But she disappeared. Somebody took him.
1:04:19
>> He was tall and
1:04:20
>> and the rain stopped. But the legend
1:04:22
said he would come back someday. and
1:04:23
bring back the rain. But nobody believed
1:04:25
that Diego did. He believed it would
1:04:28
return.
1:04:28
>> That's right. He did. One day when was
1:04:31
out in the wild searching?
1:04:32
>> Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hold your
1:04:34
horses. I mean stallion. Don't give the
1:04:36
story away. By the way, who's going to
1:04:39
tell the story?
1:04:40
>> I am.
1:04:41
>> You mean you're all going to tell it?
1:04:42
>> Yes.
1:04:43
>> At the same time.
1:04:45
>> See? Well, of course. Sort of.
1:04:50
Okay. So on this program we bring you
1:04:53
the legend of El Blanco told by all four
1:04:56
of those trace Khaden.
1:05:06
So we have one final video treasure to
1:05:09
leave you with as we say good night
1:05:10
tonight. But before we do that, Roy, I
1:05:12
just want to thank you for skipping the
1:05:13
Honda Center and returning by text and
1:05:16
joining us. Let's hear from Roy.
1:05:23
Hey, you can get there for that people
1:05:24
mover announcement.
1:05:28
>> All right, Tim, bring us home. You done
1:05:30
yet?
1:05:32
[laughter]
1:05:34
So, we're going to close with a a real
1:05:36
fun montage from uh one of my favorite
1:05:38
episodes called Disneyland After Dark.
1:05:40
And this is a real real charming piece.
1:05:43
Um, this is uh this is how you'd find
1:05:47
Walt on a summer night at Disneyland
1:05:49
when uh all the entertainment is
1:05:51
happening and it's fireworks and it's
1:05:53
Annette Funichello playing in
1:05:54
Tomorrowland and Louis Armstrong in
1:05:56
front in Frontier Land on the Mark Twain
1:05:58
and it's it's absolutely charming. So,
1:06:01
take it away, Ryan.
1:06:02
>> Yeah. And then
1:06:04
>> pay close attention. Watch Walt's
1:06:05
popcorn box. Watch where he puts his
1:06:07
pen, where he eats from. And uh watch
1:06:09
the autograph seekers. They start to
1:06:11
look increasingly familiar as this goes
1:06:13
along. So either uh the casting budget
1:06:16
was tight or Walt was dabbling in the
1:06:18
dark arts of cloning. [laughter]
1:06:20
>> Yes. Yes indeed. And and listen to
1:06:22
Walt's dialogue. He ad liibs a lot and
1:06:25
uh you'll see that familiar twinkle in
1:06:28
his eye and the enthusiasm that he comes
1:06:30
off with and it's the absolute perfect
1:06:33
way to close our show. So we hope you
1:06:35
enjoy it.
1:06:40
What do you want to do?
1:06:42
>> Yes, sir. The way you always like it.
1:06:45
>> Hi there. You know, this is one of my
1:06:48
favorite times of the day here just
1:06:50
about sundown. I like to be around when
1:06:52
the lights come on. It seems like a new
1:06:54
kind of magic takes over in Disneyland
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after dark. And we got a big night. Zach
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Armstrong is going to be aboard the Mark
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Twain or all. Then there's Tahesian. I
1:07:05
don't want you to miss them. They're in
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Adventure. We got a pie walker and girls
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too.
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>> Mr. Disney, but can I have your eye?
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Sure.
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>> You mean
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bird's eye view.
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>> Now, there going to be things to see and
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do. Most of all, you're going to see a
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lot of people having a lot of fun. May I
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please
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[music]
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looks like I'm stuck here.
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Why don't you go on without me? I'll be
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catching up with you somewhere.
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[music]
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[music]
1:07:52
Say, while you're in Tomorrowland, I
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suggest you take in our band. Annette
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and Bobby Burgess are going to be there.
1:07:58
Annette's going to sing a song and also
1:08:01
Bobby Redell are going to be there and
1:08:02
he's going [music] to sing a song or
1:08:03
two. If you go right now, I think
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they're about ready to start.
1:08:13
>> [music]
1:08:13
>> The jungle drums are crawling. That's
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the the Asian group I was telling you
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about. The show's starting right over
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there.
1:08:24
There's the old Mark Twain coming around
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the bend. Like every night, her
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passengers are having a ball.
1:08:30
>> Good evening. Thank you. You know, Fort
1:08:33
Mark Twain, we have a real Dixie Land
1:08:35
combo. We call them the young men from
1:08:38
New Orleans, and they're real old-timers
1:08:41
who were down there when jazz first came
1:08:43
into being. Monette Moore is the singer
1:08:46
with the group. And incidentally, I just
1:08:49
saw Saxon Armstrong down there waiting
1:08:52
at the dock. So, why don't you kids run
1:08:54
along and get a board and really have
1:08:56
yourself a ball?
1:08:59
>> Where's your popcorn? Oh, I wonder what
1:09:01
happened to my popcorn.
1:09:04
>> Thanks.
1:09:05
>> But would you mind?
1:09:07
>> I like that bat, didn't it?
1:09:08
>> No, but that'd be my sister.
1:09:10
>> Oh, I thought maybe I have two kids.
1:09:14
>> Thank you.
1:09:16
>> Uh, why don't we offer up?
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>> Well, [music] why don't you offer now
1:09:20
and I'll catch up with you later.
1:09:25
>> Thank you, Mr.
1:09:29
>> [music]
1:09:30
>> Well, here we are again.
1:09:33
>> This is the Plaza Gardens where the Hill
1:09:35
brothers hold on hot and they really
1:09:38
keep the place jumping. Believe me.
1:09:44
>> I think I met you with me. [music]
1:09:47
>> Take them off. I know you.
1:09:50
You're the girl that goes around
1:09:51
stealing other people's popcorn.
1:09:53
>> No, I'm the cat girl.
1:09:54
>> Oh, no. Yes. And these are the last ones
1:09:57
on it. What would you expect this for
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you?
1:09:59
>> Way back few. [music]
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Just what I've been wanting.
1:10:03
>> You mean all of them?
1:10:04
>> Please.
1:10:05
>> On top.
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>> On top.
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>> You know, I never miss dropping in at
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Plaza Garden. Like most people, I have
1:10:14
fun watching others have fun. So, don't
1:10:16
wait for me. I'll see you later.
1:10:22
>> I get tired just watching the kids
1:10:24
dance. understanding. Good night, kids.
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I will be 30 years younger. I don't know
1:10:30
about you folks, but it's way past my
1:10:32
bedtime and morning comes around early
1:10:35
and that's one of my favorite times
1:10:36
here, too. So, tonight
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[music]
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[music and applause]
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Ryan Roy. Thank you everybody.
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Secret only good things.
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[music]
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