From what I can find there have been 6 different versions of this attraction. 1964 World's Fair 1967 when moved to Disneyland 1975 when moved to Disney World 1981 1985 1993 (Current Version) There has been some rumors that Disney was going to created a virtual Disney where guests could experience older versions of attractions or extinct attractions. Personally I would enjoy getting to see all the different versions of this.
There was a minor change in dialogue in 1990 which eliminated a few references to the 80s and gave the son some more lines about Grandma and Grandpa traveling the world (Andrew Duggan had by this point passed away and couldn't re-record any new lines)
giustinagd OMG, good catch! This is my first time realizing that they played a different song than what they currently play at this attraction. I immediately recognized this song, which I always enjoy when I visit Tomorrowland/PeopleMover.
@@saffronsworld1508 The Disneyland one has been gone since 1995. The Magic Kingdom one is under refurbishment. It will most likely open sometime in 2021. Edit: It’s back.
I’m 45 and growing up in FL I visited the Magic Kingdom every year. After a full day of rides, food, yelling, and fights with my brother this was the last ride we went on. This will always mean Disney to me, especially with Now is the Best Time as the theme song! Thanks for posting this!!
To be honest I feel like the current version of the ride feels more like a fun look at the technology of the past and that this version feels more like its only purpose is to get us to buy GE products.
Agree, and also comment on feminism for some reason. I love feminism, but like... it feels forced and awkward everytime, like they were tripping over themselves in the writers room
Your dad's fantastic for having recorded this. The first time I remember seeing this was Now is the Time's version. I'm fully a It's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow fan, but Now is the Time wasn't even wrong. We had some pretty big tech jumps that started in the 80's and early 90's.
Lizzy, I agree - I was there in 1981 with my parents and grandparents and when we would leave the park at night, we would all sing this on the way back to the hotel..... WONDERFUL memories... ❤❤
THIS 80's version is closer to the original 60s version than the current version which has been in place since mid 90s / 2000s version still in use today. The only difference of this 80's version and the original 60s is the voice actors and the obvious song change. Though I respect that 'Great Big beautiful tomorrow' is the original song, I've always preferred 'Now Is the time' ! Probably coz it's the first version I heard at the end of the 80's to about 1992. ☺ Great upload by the way! 😉
Thank you so much for posting this.... I was looking for this... I found a video of the new carousel but the changes they have made are not for the better someone the human touch has been taken away.. Bless you for this gift. It took me back to my teenage years and being at the park with my family. This was one of my Mom's favorite attractions may she rest in peace...
Diana, me, too - it takes me back to when I went with my parents and grandparents.... nothing reminds me of them more than when we are all together enjoying this attraction..... I know exactly where you are coming from... ❤❤
Thank you for posting this. I remember seeing this version of the Carousel of Progress when I visited the Magic Kingdom in 1978. Act IV has been updated at least 2 times since then, which I have seen. But I like this version very much. It would be even better if Disney restored the original version as seen at Disneyland when this attraction first opened in the late 1960s. I have never seen Act IV circa 1968.
McKenna_Wagner I wish I went to Disney when If You Had Wings was still around. First time I went was 1990. I love Dreamflight but Wings looked pretty cool from the videos I've seen on RU-vid
This is the version I grew up with, I like the voice actor that does the father and "Now is the Time" I think it's funnier that the current one. I like the current one with all the holidays, but it's more a list of historical facts, this one is about social progress as well as the technological advances that come with electricity, and I miss the New's Years Eve from Walt Disney World on the TV at the end
Take a serious note on this one, The Lip movement and animation on this version was much better than todays version. Disney is pissing me off because there not taking care of this attraction,
Itanium153 it's not just this attratction disney isn't taking care of any of its attracitons. The Laughing place scene in Splash Mountain has been broken for years.
Hopefully they update it soon cause in the second scene the lips on the man isnt moving and some of the speakers are getting bad and are lower than the others
its actually because of all the PC people now where they have changed the entire speaking track for this ride to not offend certain people. YES Disney could take the time to change the mouth movement but I would rather see the original ride instead of the Shell of its former self that is now due to PC bullshit.
What are you talking about? The dialogue is nearly the same and some more adult jokes have been added in ("Don't tell your mother"). The dialogue and show had to be updated because1) General Electric is no longer a sponsor of the show and 2) the finale had to be updated, so all the voices had to be updated since the voice actors were no longer around. The ride should reflect, to a degree, the language appropriate to the current times. It’s the carousel of PROGRESS. The theme song was changed back to the original played at the world's fair to think about the future, also because of the end of the GE contract.
no, it just looks that way because of the low video quality. If you look at HD footage shot on 35mm from the 64 worlds fair you can see the lip movements are the same.
GooglFascists Apparently, the original song is the one that is there now, but they changed it because GE didn't want people thinking that there's "a great big beautiful tomorrow" to buy their products, and so they changed it, to make people think that "now is the time" to buy their products, rather than having so much time to buy them. The song changed back after the contract ended.
Joseph Parodi the song at the World’s Fair was “Now is the Time” same as in this video. When the contract ended they changed it to what the Sherman brothers and Walt wanted. The voice was also Rex Allen.
Wrong. "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" was the song at the Far and the 1967-73 Disneyland program was the same as the Fair. When the attraction moved to Florida it was completely overhauled with the new song, which reflected more caution ("Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow's" sentiments were badly out of date in the mid-70s) and a totally new voice cast. The father in this version was Andrew Duggan.
The narrator/father in this version of COP which ran at WDW from 1975-1993 is Andrew Duggan, best known for the TV series "Lancer" and also the movie "In Like Flint". This is also one of the latest points in time for the original Act IV which was redone later in 1981 with new voices for the other characters save Duggan's father and remained part of the show through 1993.
+ibrake4butterflies Thanks, my father recorded this. He bought a video camera in 1978. The camera itself was heavy and huge, then you had to carry the VCR which was very heavy and huge also. Plus a bag with about 10 large batteries. Very difficult to record back then......
+VideofromGeorge I know. The camera, the vcr over the shoulder and the heavy giant batteries. I'm amazed. I'm sure he never know that 30 something years later he would bring this into lots of people's living rooms. I'm very grateful . My dad saw this at 1964 Worlds Fair. I love this ride. I'm not sure why, but I just do. TFS.
Great Video George, How comes he never updated the camera in 1981 when he went then-They were so much lighter but still had to carry battery bag, By 1982 as you know you didn't need one of those and by 1983 they-Videocamera started to reduce in size
I'm not sure how my mom put up with me using almost all of our "E" tickets going back to this show over and over. Probably the only thing we visited more often than "It's a Small World." Something about it spoke to my child-brain.
This is the song I remember since I was a kid “Now it’s the time, now it’s the best time, now it’s the best time of your life” (I know they changed it). This has always been one of my favorite rides lol 😂
I loved this attraction. Thank you for posting this. Looking back at the story lines now makes way more sense. I didn’t see it or hear it when I was a child, but I have more discernment now…..
I agree, I was only 4 years old for this version of the carousel of progress, This last seen was replaced in 1982 I believe the now is the time version was the best.
Itanium153 Apparently, the original song is the one that is there now, but they changed it because GE didn't want people thinking that there's "a great big beautiful tomorrow" to buy their products, and so they changed it, to make people think that "now is the time" to buy their products, rather than having so much time to buy them. The song changed back after the contract ended.
This music was the best. I saw this at Disney back in the 90s, and I had only been in the US for literally a few hours! This made such a big impression on me, as it was pretty much the first memory I made after arriving.
I was 11 years old back then...seems like yesterday! And the GE brand is incorporated in the soundtrack--whose sponsorship ended in the early 90s. Oh yeah, TURN BACK, TURN BACK... 1:18
"No privacy at-tol around this place." I've used those words countless times in jest when I was on the throne in the bathroom and my wife started talking to me about something trivial.
I feel that this version and the current version are unique in their own way. The final scene needs a update since the scene of the 90’s is reality. What inventions could be used in a new finale? Would love to hear thoughts
I honestly prefer the version we have now. I appreciate that the mother and daughter have more speaking parts and more personality than in the previous versions. Just my opinion though 🤷♀️
Did he have a a stereo camera the audio is also very stable. I no longer have are camera but I kept are portable vcr for playback only and its a stereo hifi 4 head model more rare for a portable shoulder unit.
@@tiderbean I didn't own my first camcorder until 1989. It was a one-piece VHS shoulder camera but I remember back then they had a "Lux" rating with a lower number being better. I think mine was rated at 3 Lux and they really didn't perform well in low light conditions
The current version of the carousel is actually the original played at the New York World's Fair 1964 1965. Now is the time was only used when the ride was still G.E. and came back to the east coast from Disneyland.
Exactly. The current version is a creaky 1990s version that overlays the 64 song into a PC infested nostalgia trip with Jean Shepherd's doofus father and has nothing to do with the theme of progress. People have to get past their antipathy to the song change in this version to realize that this version was much truer to the spirit of the original but couched its message in less grandiose terms to fit in with the more cautious and more cynical 1970s where people had a much more jaded view of progress than they did in 1964 (as evidenced by how people stopped caring about spaceflight after the moon landing or didn't think about building big future cities of tomorrow like the original EPCOT design would have been).
Dave D sorry pal you're wrong there. In terms of script, THIS 80's version is closer to the original than the inferior 90s / 2000s version still in use today. The only difference ofvthe 80's is the voice actors and the song.
Man this ride used to have a long line, now when you go there’s hardly a line at all. Just shows unpopular it is now and it makes me sad. I hope Disney keeps it for a long time even though it’s not as popular as it used to.
Thank you! This is the version I always knew, with the General Electric song - I’m not a fan of “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow.” “Best Time of Your Life” will always be the Carousel of Progress theme to me.
Aparently i was mistaken aparently it was another version of the attraction i apologize and i enjoy being corrected it just shows me im not perfect thankyou for bringing my mistake to my attention
see the was america sing what happend was the worker went inbetween the theatres and tripped or fell and it was moving the other way against were the worker went and was killed but it cant happen again
when they moved the ride from disneyland, they changed the song to "the best time of your life", but they changed it back in 1994 as a tribute to nostalgia
MrJonswift200 Apparently, the original song is the one that is there now, but they changed it because GE didn't want people thinking that there's "a great big beautiful tomorrow" to buy their products, and so they changed it, to make people think that "now is the time" to buy their products, rather than having so much time to buy them. The song changed back after the contract ended.
@@SteveCarras No. Rex Allen was the voice in the World's Fair and Disneyland version. When the COP came to Florida in 1975 it was totally redone and this version is the original 1975 version where Andrew Duggan is the voice of the Father. Later in 1981 they redid Act IV and brought in other voices for the supporting players with Duggan redoing his new lines (Acts 1-3 stayed unchanged) and that version was the one that remained in place with only some minor tweaks until 1993.
My uncles been telling me about this song.....now I’ve heard it. Love the changes done to the shows over the years. I wish the Tiki room still had the new...now old Under new management with Iago & Zazu.
What a shame this version isn't still playing at Disney World. For one thing, its elimination of the annoying "Carousel of Progress" song is a huge improvement.
+Rick M Yes because there IS NO "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, shining at the End of Every Day". 100 million Americans are unemployed; their jobs GONE FOREVER overseas, while Disney World hires Mexicans and lays Americans off.
Rick M I've commented this a couple of other times, but... Apparently, the original song is the one that is there now, but they changed it because GE didn't want people thinking that there's "a great big beautiful tomorrow" to buy their products, and so they changed it, to make people think that "now is the time" to buy their products, rather than having so much time to buy them. The song changed back after the contract ended.
GooglFascists hell it's mostly Hispanic population in the park as it is. We went yesterday at MK and damn .. instead of "most magical" .. try "most populated" on Earth! The ghetto still shows up but the border runners out number them exponentially. Honestly I think most are like Brazilian so that falls into like Portuguese but I've had pleasant conversations with most of them. Dude I met from the Bronx was cool too but the local natives of African decent were pretty much assholes. Not to take away from the local white douche bags as well that express theirselves with tasteless body art. Yes, I spoke my mind. Get over it.
It just isn't the same without you a great big beautiful tomorrow. I do like the voice acting and movement in this version, but I just can't enjoy it as much.
The very first time they ran this ride in disneyworld the worker running the controls was killed you can find video of it here on youtube you dont have to take my word for it look it up
Jonathan Dimmick Sorry, but you are incorrect. The death you're talking about happened at Disneyland and it was not Carousel of Progress. It was America Sings (which replaced COP when it was moved to WDW). And the accident happened 9 days after America Sings opened in the summer of 1974, not the very first time the show ran. When the Carousel Theatre housed COP at Disneyland, the theatre rotated clockwise around the central stage area. When it was switched to America Sings, they also reversed the way the theatre seating area rotated, making it go counter-clockwise, which meant that the walls moved towards each other on the left-hand side of the stage and closed in place to separate each theatre from its neighbors. An 18 year old cast member got too close to the wall of her stage. Apparently her theatre was empty and she was supposedly talking with a cast member in a neighboring theatre. So when the theatre started to rotate, the poor girl became trapped between a stationary wall and the wall that rotated with theatre. A guest in the theatre next door heard the cast member's screams and alerted staff, but by the time they found the cast member, she had been crushed to death. In response to the accident, Disneyland installed sensor lights which alerted the ride’s operators if anyone moved too close to the walls. Later the ride was fitted with breakaway walls designed to prevent a repeat of the incident even if the sensor system failed.
Thank you for the huge watermark, do you have a copy without that? Very nice video though, hard to find recordings like this of this animatronic show in its original form.
