04194cam a2200481 i 4500 21033040 BJBSDDR 20240220123851.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 190625s2020 nyuab b 001 0 eng 2019024840 9781501190810 (paperback) 1501190814 (paperback) 9781501190827 (ebook) DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc n-us-ca GV 1853.3 S674d 2020 791.06/879496 Snow, Richard, 1947- 33465 Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world / Richard Snow. First Scribner paperback edition. New York : Scribner, 2020. xvi, 408 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Sunday, July 17, 1955, 4 a.m How I got to Disneyland A horrible name for a mouse The Railroad Fair The Lilly Belle World's Fairs, Coney Island, and the decline of the amusement park Dwarf Land Getting started Buzz and Woody Orange County Buying on the sly Roy Like nothing else in the world The almost broadcasting company Selling the idea Imagineering The Admiral The instant jungle Arrow Harriet and the model shop Real trains King of the wild frontier The struggle for sponsors Van Arsdale France founds a school The Pony Farm Demands of the Jungle Cruise Milking the elephant Autopia The Moonliner Through the castle gate The perfectionist at work Ruth's role Union troubles "We're not going to make it" Tempus fugit Dateline: Disneyland Dateline behind the cameras: Black Sunday Damage control Something worthwhile Plussing The mountain and the monorail Disneyland '59 "Do you have rocket-launching pads there?" Suing God in heaven A perfect fascist regime The greatest piece of urban design The first goodbye Beautiful? "By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieved it, but just barely: he ran out of money, had to borrow against his life insurance, fell out with his studio, frightened his family, and endured much ridicule. What he built was far more influential than is generally understood-for one thing, Disneyland's Main Street sparked an architectural preservation movement that touched every American downtown-and remains controversial: many see it as a retreat from life itself. What is beyond argument is that Disneyland was something new, both in public entertainment, and in the way its "lands" managed to chime with how millions of Americans wanted to view their country-six hundred million Americans so far, and they just keep on coming. It reflects the park's uniqueness, but just as strongly that of the man who built it with a watchmaker's precision, an artist's conviction, and the desperate, high-hearted recklessness of a riverboat gambler"-- Provided by publisher. Architecture, American. Architecture Social aspects United States. Arquitectura americana 34451 Disneyland (Calif.) History. Disneylandia (California, Estados Unidos) Historia 34449 California (Estados Unidos) Parques de diversiones 34450 Online version: Snow, Richard, 1947- Disney's land New York : Scribner, 2019. 9781501190827 (DLC) 2019024841 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 120381 120381 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-12-11 0 GV 1853.3 S674d 2020 00000170152 2023-12-11 00:00:00 1 2023-12-11 BK