The animation is awesome. When you realize the old painstaking techniques they went through to make this, compared to the nice tools in animation sw today, it's pretty humbling.
It was great in those days and always looked forward to the next week of disneyland and watching Walts intro and narration. I also remember the first time they introduced Davy Crockett
Even though the weekly Disney TV show changed its name over the years, because my siblings and I had started watching it in the early days, we just always continued to call it "Disneyland". Of course, naming the show after the part itself (open in 1955) and using the names of the various "lands" that it was divided into, served as promotion to get people to actually visit. Which I REALLY wanted to do, and then actually did do in Sept. 1960 when I was 6 - the source of much excitement.
Kaitlyn Volturno; Yes they were the good old days even though that era wasn't perfect. I miss those Sunday nights when I watched Disney Land with my Mum, Dad & us kids. If I could turn the clock back I would. Memories will have to do now, I treasure them👍.
This was the "standard" opening title seen during the first season of the weekly "DISNEYLAND" series (1954-'55), introducing, I believe the very first episode in October of '54, "The Disneyland Story", where Walt talked about his future plans for building the "Magic Kingdom", featuring a few guest stars and excerpts from early Disney cartoons....
They used to have Old Disney Programing on the Disney Channel Late at Night-Starting at 11:00PM-6AM and it was called "Vault Disney"! They really should bring Vault Disney back to Disney Channel, and reair these old disney shows, and cartoons too! This video is awesome by the way! If you people also want to see old disney stuff, you can always buy or rent the Walt Disney Treasure DVDs!
Leia2001forcegrrlify; It's been years since you posted this info about the Walt Disney Treasure DVD's but it is still relevant now. Thanks for the info. I'd love to watch them again, those classic Disney stories that I watched way back in the 1960's on Sunday nights. I also wonder if 'Disney Studio's' still retain them All/some, and have restored them for prosperity?
This series won 8 Primetime Emmy Awards for Oustanding Variety Series Including Musical Variety, Oustanding Television Film Editing, Oustanding Individual Program of the Year, Oustanding Producer - Film Series, Outstanding Action or Adventure Series, Outstanding Program in the Field of Children's Programming, Outstanding Art Direction And Scenic Design, and Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement - Programs.
When the Disneyland TV show aired, everyone watched. Everyone knew Walt Disney. Some of us felt he was the biggest influence on us. He gave us fantasies and dreams, and made the world more spectacular. We thought his spirit would always permeate all things Disney. Now, he's just a corporate name on a park that is steadily whittling away the things he created, and his TV show? They should call it "The Hanna Montana Channel". And I wouldn't give you a nickel for it now.
0:40 (Hogarth opens the door to see the Giant's hand watching the TV and gasps) Tomorrowland: Promise of Things to Come. (Hogarth turns off the TV and tries to move the Giant's hand)
Great!!! I remember seeing this first episode on our Hoffman tv....it was fabulous, as was Disneyland when it opened...and you bought a book of tickets from A-E and E were the best rides! It was sooooo "politically incorrect" that people today would run for a safe space..but boy was it fun!
By the early 1950's, Walt Disney, the man who gained a momentum of creating Mickey Mouse, made success by filming animated and live studio features for the motion picture screen, but now he had a new idea in mind. He created a theme park and name it Disneyland. but he needed money to open the park, fast by succeeding with his position into a brand new medium, Television! Thus, The American Broadcasting Company successfully brought Disney to that medium in addition to building that theme park. And his dream came to Television on October 27, 1954 with the premiere of "WALT DISNEY'S DISNEYLAND". That gem featured all four realms that originated in that series. Realm One, "Frontierland", Realm Two, "Tomorrowland", Realm Three, "Adventureland", and Realm Four, "Fantasyland". The "WALT DISNEY'S DISNEYLAND" series began a tradition series of Disney anthology programs for Prime Time Television that continued ever since. The retitles are as follows, " WALT DISNEY PRESENTS", "WALT DISNEY'S THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR", "THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY", "DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD", "WALT DISNEY", "THE DISNEY SUNDAY MOVIE" and "THE MAGICAL WORLD OF DISNEY". To Walt Disney, ABC's "WALT DISNEY'S DISNEYLAND" was the key to launching his own theme park, Disneyland, which opened to the public to children, parents and people everywhere on July 17, 1955. Walt Disney's first TV series was the one that bring families together week after week, and the rest is mouse-history!
Walt Disney's DISNEYLAND! 🎵 When you wish upon a star, 🎵 🎵 Makes no difference who you are. 🎵 Each week as you enter this timeless land, one of these many worlds will open to you. FRONTIERLAND! Tall tales and true from the legendary past! TOMORROWLAND! Promise of things to come! ADVENTURELAND! The wonderworld of nature's own realm! FANTASYLAND! The happiest kingdom of them all!
We can lobby Disney to put the old classic shows back on even if late at night. I'll get a contact email address and we can start a campaign. It worked before.
because that was the movie. it was made in color so that the theaters could project it in color.. most people had black and white t.vs back then even though color tvs starting coming out.. this is in black and white so it could suit the needs of the people with black and white tv.. this wasnt shown during the movie.
God I love this opening...though I'm now wondering how they could've done episodes for Main Street U.S.A. Kinda a shame that they didn't include that section in the show considering Walt based it on his childhood home. At the very least Lady and the Tramp and the cartoons The Nifty Nineties and Crazy Over Daisy would've worked.
Do you have season 4 episode 24 "Four Tales on a Mouse"? It contains some of my favorite cartoons: The Little Whirlwind, The Nifty Nineties and "Mickey's Birthday Party"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WALT DISNEY MY FRIEND IN THE HEAVEN ¡¡¡¡¡ THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS FOR THE WORLD FOREVER ¡¡¡¡¡ ALEJANDRO BUSTAMANTE FROM BUENOS AIRES CITY -ARGENTINA.....PLANET EARTH.........DECEMBER 5
from what i understand, films started having color in them long before television did. also, black and white was considered to have already been "perfected" while they were still working out the kinks with color technology.
