WEDway Radio #088 - How It All Started
WEDway Radio - Walt Disney World and Disneyland Examined with some Disney History
Nate and Matt Parrish
4.9 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2011
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of WEDway Radio Matt and Nate are once again joined by Jeff Pepper to discuss some Disney history. This week we are going deep in the realm of Disney history to discover the story of Walt Disney in Kansas City. In looking at this chapter the focus is really not just the Laugh O Gram Studio or the beginnings of Walt as an animator, but really the beginning of a career where Walt learned how to run a studio. He had several jobs, starting as an artist at Pesmin-Rubin Commercial art Studio and working for a long time at the Kansas City Slide Company, but he also ventured out on his own a few times to start different businesses including The Iwerks-Disney Studio, Kaycee Studios and then finally the Laugh O Gram Studio. We discuss all of these endevours, and many of the artists that got their start with Disney as well. Check out the Show Notes to this and every episode of WEDway Radio.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Brava Centauri Studios, this is Wedway Radio. Within the 47 square miles of the Walt Disney World Resort, you'll discover much more entertainment and recreation for all ages. |
| 0:35.6 | Each themed Disney Resort features daytime and nighttime activities. |
| 0:40.3 | For a wide variety of shopping, dining, and nighttime entertainment, |
| 0:44.3 | visit Disney's Boardwalk or Downtown Disney, which includes the Marketplace, Pleasure Island, and the West Side. |
| 0:52.3 | Winding above the roadways of the Autopia is the People Mover, |
| 0:57.0 | another Disney developed transportation system introduced right here in Tomorrowland. |
| 1:03.0 | In 1981, a third-generation wedway people mover opened at Houston Intercontinental Airport. |
| 1:10.0 | One day, a system like this may serve you in your own hometown. |
| 1:14.6 | The home of the future is the only one of its kind in the world. |
| 1:21.6 | The project was conceived more than 10 years ago during a plastics research program |
| 1:26.6 | financed by Monsanto at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| 1:32.1 | In effect, you, the visitor, are part of this. |
| 1:37.8 | Welcome to Wedway Radio episode 88, a show about Disney history, Disney Parks, and touring. |
| 1:46.2 | Your friends, Matt and Nate, here back with you, and we're pretty excited for another |
| 1:50.7 | nice weekly episode here. |
| 1:53.1 | Yeah, and we're coming to you tonight to give you a story that might on its surface sound |
| 1:59.7 | a lot like our last episode where we talked about |
| 2:02.3 | the Burbank Studio and its introduction in the movie The Reluctant Dragon, but this one really |
| 2:07.6 | has nothing to do with that one at all. |
| 2:09.9 | No, this one's not like that, but it is something that's sort of, I would say, close to the |
| 2:14.7 | hearts of you and me here, because it occurred really right near where we grew up. |
| 2:21.5 | Yeah, and what's funny is, you know, you and I have lived most of our, you know, young life growing up in Kansas City, Missouri and always known that Walt Disney came from this area. |
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