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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Walt is dead. His dream of EPCOT isn't.
Roy Disney puts off his own retirement to attempt to finish his brother's final plan. In his way is a new hostile governor and the bewildered residents of Orlando who have no idea what to expect from incoming Disney empire.
The drive to make EPCOT a reality... just might be the World's Greatest Con.
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0:00.0 | This is World's Greatest Con. |
0:03.0 | I'm Brian Brushwood. |
0:05.0 | If you want to see the face of a man who knows he's won, |
0:11.0 | look no further than Walt Disney's face in the 1966 Epcot Pitchville. |
0:17.0 | We know what our goals are. We know what we hope to accomplish. And me it's the most exciting and challenging the |
0:26.2 | assignment we've ever tackled at Walt Disney Productions. |
0:30.4 | Today I want to share with you some of our ideas. He's surrounded by maps and graphs twice as tall as him |
0:37.2 | Walt is introducing his plans to the public for the very first time and he is confident that once the public sees what he has |
0:45.1 | planned for them they will fall in love with the dream of Disney. And when I |
0:52.0 | watch this presentation all I can see is a deep dive into exactly what |
0:58.1 | Walt's brain is thinking of on October 27, 1966. |
1:05.0 | This pitch is a masterful piece of filmmaking. |
1:08.2 | When Walt begins to explain what Disney World |
1:10.7 | will look like from an aerial view, |
1:13.1 | the camera is locked off on not one, not two, |
1:17.1 | but five different parks. |
1:19.5 | This is already way bigger than Disneyland. But as Walt begins to speak, the camera pulls back to reveal. |
1:30.0 | But as you can see on this master plan, the theme park and all the other tourist |
1:34.9 | facilities feel just one small area of our enormous Florida project. |
1:40.3 | And the camera just keeps zooming out and zooming out until finally you see Walt all the way down at the bottom |
1:48.8 | Looking like one of his own seven dwarves compared to the scale of what he purchased in Florida. |
1:54.3 | According to this scale, I am six miles tall. |
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