Ep. 5: Creating Captain EO

Defunctland

Kevin Perjurer

Society & Culture, History, Society & Culture:history

4.8 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Terri Hardin joins the Defunctland Podcast for part two of her discussion with Kevin. She tells a variety of behind the scenes stories of Captain EO, as well as her experience working with Michael Jackson.

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0:00.0	When you wish upon a song.
0:05.0	Now we want you to share with us our latest and greatest dream.
0:09.0	Disneyland.
0:10.0	Just go to action park with no other park like it.
0:17.0	Six Flags, great adventure. It's not a world away.
0:20.0	Paramounts Kings Island. We will officially Six Flags, great adventure. It's not a world away.
0:24.1	Paramount's Kings Island.
0:26.9	We will officially open Universal Studios, Florida.
0:28.8	Hello, I'm Michael Eisner.
0:36.7	Now, here is your host.
0:54.1	Welcome back to the Defunct Land podcast. My name is Kevin Perger, and today we will be continuing our discussion with former Imagineer and puppeteer Terry Hardin. Today is everything Captain E.O. Terry's main job on the film was puppeteering Idy and Odie, but she did much more, which we were both very excited to get into. This is going to be a very exciting week on the Defunct Land podcast.
1:11.4	Today we'll have a great discussion on Captain EO. On Wednesday, Terry and I will do a commentary for the film, which will be published on Defunctland's YouTube channel, and on Friday, we will finish our discussion with Terry on a bunch of random tangents that didn't fit into the first two episodes. So now on to your questions about Captain EO. The first comes from our executive producer at Defunct Land, Bleaker.
1:11.6	His question for you, Terry, is what was it like to work with Michael Jackson?
1:15.6	Well, Bleaker, and let me say that you can always have me back.
1:21.6	So what may happen is, as I tell you stories from today,
1:25.6	you may spark questions of tomorrow and just get with
1:28.3	Kevin. And if you want to come back and do Captain EO2 or whatever, don't hesitate because I'm more
1:34.5	than happy to talk about it. But Michael Jackson, this was 1985. Michael Jackson was huge at this time.
1:48.8	He had done thriller. He had done Billy Jean. He had done everything he touched was golden. His dancing was at its peak. He was an amazing, amazing
1:54.4	individual. I was working, I can't remember exactly where I was working at the time, but I got a phone call.
2:03.8	And the phone call said, how would you like to work with Michael Jackson?
2:08.6	And I said, hmm, that sounds cool.
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