Walt Disney: Building a Better Theme Park | Project Future | 1

Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

As Walt Disney sets out to build a second theme park in Florida, he quietly works to keep the top secret project out of the public eye. To make his dream a reality, and to keep Project Future under wraps, Walt will rely on a close-knit team of lawyers, executives, and former World War Two spies. This is the first in our four-episode series on Walt’s efforts to create a second theme park that would correct the errors of his first.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to BusinessMovers ad free on Amazon Music.
0:05.0	Download the app today. It's July 17th, 1955 in Anaheim, California at the happiest place on earth.
0:28.0	Two men stand in front of Sleeping Beauty's Castle, Walt Disney, the world-class entertainer, and his good friend TV personality
0:35.3	Art Link Letter, the host of Dateline Disney, the live TV special covering Disneyland's opening
0:41.2	day. It's the final shot of the 90 minute broadcast.
0:45.0	Art puts his arm around Walt and wraps up the show.
0:48.0	Let's go into fantasyland and head first.
0:50.0	Goodbye folks.
0:51.0	As the two men turned from the camera and walked towards the castle, Walt is all smiles.
0:56.2	The Dateline Disney broadcast has been a tremendous success.
0:59.8	90 million Americans tuned in to get a glimpse of Walt's newest creation, 90 million
1:05.2	potential customers.
1:07.2	But underneath his famous smile, Walt is fuming.
1:10.9	Throughout the day as Walt ran from place to place, frantically changing costumes and hustling to make the next shot,
1:17.0	he began to hear rumors of problems in the park.
1:20.0	10,000 people were invited to the soft opening, but nearly 30,000 showed up.
1:26.0	Fistfights broke out in the sweltering 100 degree heat.
1:29.6	Rides broke down.
1:31.2	Restaurants ran out of food. Lines were so long many guests gave up and went home.
1:36.6	All the while, Walt was forced to smile for the cameras and put on a happy face.
1:42.0	But after the broadcast, when Walt bursts into the office of Disneyland's general
1:45.9	manager, C. V. Wood, he isn't smiling anymore.
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