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🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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As George wraps up his Star Wars saga with three more films, he feels the time is right to retire and sell Lucasfilm. But the Walt Disney Corporation takes his beloved franchise in a controversial new direction.
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0:11.0 | It's July 1955 at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. |
0:31.0 | An overexcited 11-year-old George Lucas and his father wait in the Tomorrowland spaceport. |
0:37.0 | It's the first week of the park's opening and young George is in heaven. |
0:42.0 | 90 million people watch the park's first day live on television. |
0:46.0 | Now George can't believe he's actually here in person. |
0:50.0 | He's gone on all the rides and is now in line to enter the futuristic rocket to the moon attraction. |
0:55.0 | He stares up at the 72-foot high TWA moonliner rocket, awed by its size. |
1:02.0 | Is that thing really going to space stand? |
1:04.0 | No, George, it's just an illusion, but I'm sure the experience will be very realistic. |
1:08.0 | I'd like to go to space someday. |
1:10.0 | Well, if you apply yourself a bit harder in school, spend less time watching television. |
1:15.0 | I'm sure there's no limit to what you can achieve. |
1:18.0 | George's TV habit is starting to worry George Senior, who thinks his son needs to focus on his studies before his grades start slipping. |
1:25.0 | Do you think there are aliens on the moon, like on a planet mango? |
1:28.0 | Mango? Where's that George? |
1:30.0 | It's where Flash Gordon travels when he conquers the universe. |
1:33.0 | I don't know anything about Flash Gordon George. |
1:36.0 | How did Mr. Disney come up with all the ideas for these rides? |
1:39.0 | Oh, I'm sure he didn't do it alone. |
1:41.0 | He has a talented team working hard to ensure everything runs exactly how he wants. |
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