DISNEYLAND - Tomorrowland 1967 (part 1) 

Even though Disneyland is always changing I believe one change should be to step back in time by returning the people mover.

This is the Tomorrowland I remember as a kid. My first visit was in 1969 -- I was 4 years old. I remember the entrance had colored fountains then became hanging gardens later in the 70s or early 80s presumably due to the fountains leaking into the ride buildings. This commemorates a time when we had hope for the future. Science and education were a shared American value and the moon landing was just the beginning. Now it's all about pushing merchandise and film franchises. The People Mover and Monorail promised transportation of the future. What happened to our dreams?

After seeing the Rocket Jets ride...man I could just cry. I miss the old Disneyland. Just blessed to have been able to enjoy it.

Flying and going to Disneyland was something special and you dressed up for it.

"this is one ride you wont find in your ticket book today"...lol I loved those ticket books! It only cost 6 bucks to get into disneyland when i was a kid! The adventure thru ineer space!! I loved that ride. We really thought we were shrinking.. Flight to the moon!!! another fantastic ride for a kid..My god why did they remove these rides?

I wish I can go back in time and go on these rides! The sad truth is..Everyone then will be pretty disappointed to learn that by 2014 we don't have a moon base or anything...

Sigh. It's watching videos like this that you could easily sink into a sort of time-life-crisis, realizing you can never go back to enjoy the past. I guess the only solution is to actively participate in creating the future. The art of Tomorrowland... the colors, the beauty, the sense of motion and perspective and texture I experienced as a child inspires me to create art. That seems to me to be just about the most effective solution.

Adventures Thru Inner Space = best makeout ride ever

One day when time travel becomes possible you'll see me in this video

THIS was my Tomorrowland! They should have left it alone since everything's gone retro. 50's retro, not Jules Verne retro. :)

This version of Tomorrowland looks a million times better than today's version.

For me, just being a little one growing up in my Elementary school years back in Dallas , Texas.The family would take a road trip from Texas to Palmdale to see my Grandparents.Then, off to Disneyland

One of the truly funny parts is at the end when our spaceman on the moon notes that no gravity will make "my kids at home will sure get a kick outta that"! That was good.!

visited DL for the first time in 1968,when we moved to orange county from Seattle WA

Ahhhh... The beautiful Mary Blair mural... Also long gone... :(

Disneyland truly had a magical feel about it back then. Even through the 80's, which I remember as a kid. It might be just because I'm an adult now, but it seems that it is just considered a fun place by the kids. The sense of wonderment is no longer there. But i guess I can't be sure. I'm not a mind reader of today's kids.

"this is one ride you wont find in your ticket book today"...lol I loved those ticket books! It only cost 6 bucks to get into disneyland when i was a kid!

I wish i could go back in time and go to place like this and that island place that shut down in 1999 i think

Got to love the Skyway going in and out of the Matterhorn..

"this is one ride you wont find in your ticket book today"...lol I loved those ticket books! It only cost 6 bucks to get into disneyland when i was a kid! The adventure thru ineer space!! I loved that ride. We really thought we were shrinking..

People used to actually "dress" to go places then.. sigh. No drop pants, shaggy crappy, who cares what I look like. I was 3yrs old when this was filmed and first year my parents took me to DL.

the only attraction that still exists from the "New Tomorrowland is Carousel of Progress, which is now in WDW. None of the other attractions survived. The one that survived the longest was the People Mover, which closed in the 90's.

I miss the people mover!

I miss going there

Is it me, or is it kinda funny how the guy in the jet pack takes off pre-New Tomorrowland (in the flight circle) flies over the 1967 New Tomorrowland, and land's back in the 1955-1966 Tomorrowland. I tell ya that jetpack has time travel abilities too, lol!

Wow, this is the like the only footage of mission to the moon on youtube. It has to be one of the most forgotten rides. I loved that ride when I was a kid though. The seats were the coolest part.

Those were my faves. Circlevision was Soring over Ca of the 60's

yeah i feel the same way. rocket jets took you way up! it was a better time back then.

All the people who say Disneyland was so much better back in the 80's..I think you're confused with Walt Disney World. Walt Disney World was far better in the 80's and early 90's. Disneyland Resort, on the other hand, is looking better now than it ever has! Look at the re-Imagineered Disney California Adventure, the Diamond Celebration, etc.

same here i'll be 65 in 2055.... wow that sounds old.

it looked like it had so much more kinetics than it does now.

8:27 - Folks at Disney testing for the moon landing in 1969 :-D

Agreed! Walt Disney always felt one of his missions was to educate the public, and especially kids, not just entertain them.. Hence the weekly TV show "Wonderful World of Disney" (or "Color" depending on your era). If Walt could do so in a fun and enjoyable way, so much the better. Sadly that vision seems to have been lost. Now it's just cheap thrills.

just a lil FYI... the Adventure Thru Inner Space and Circle Vision buildings were already there... they just got remodeled and added on. Flight to the Moon was already there but the original dome roofs were taken off and just built a big building arund the 2 show theatres. Tomorrowland hasn't really changed... just old things replaced with new things.

@pumasgoya - You have a good point. Not to mention Carousel of Progress. However, without the visionary Walt to push them, they are pretty much stuck in current-day thinking.

i like the astronauts talking to the kids in the background in the beginning :D

Still waiting for a People Mover in my city.

That scene with the spaceman flying over Tomorrowland looks like it was lifted from "Disneyland Around the Seasons", BEFORE the post-1967 Tomorrowland opened!

Without seeming too negative, I have to say that this Tomorrowland is much better and futuristic than the one of the present day. What were they thinking in getting rid of Voyage through Innerspace, Circlevision Theatre and the People mover?

Add Star Tours and Space Mountain and this Tomorrowland would be perfect. Star Tours wouldn't replace Inner Space though, it would be put elsewhere.

Dude back then Tomorrowland actually looks like TOMORROWLAND! innovative technology which is surprising me that we didn't create these things yet! And it doesn't look like its space theme cause guys, its not supposed to

The "Mr. Energy" mural has long since been replaced by a mural themed to Star Tours. I heard that the mural got broken into pieces, which can now be found in mosaic pieces at the Pizzeria Bella Notte restaurant in Disneyland Paris.

A world on the move.

3:33 Now THAT'S that green, electric, vehicles SHOULD be!

I like how the kids are covering their ears 1:20

you are right !

I'll make u happy,Disneyland is going to make tommorrowland right once for all

There is no excuse for Disneyland getting rid of Innerspace and Circlevision. But teens would walk alongside the Peoplemover, get stuck and killed by the trains. They called it the People Remover.

The jetpack man is froim 1965 (before "New Tomorrowland")

This is the Tomorrowland I remember.

yes, you are correct, that was Roy...

i hope they bring back the peoplr mover it would be kool.

Why I'm seeing this for the first time!! Living in third world !!

hmm put Star Tours in the gift shop that's next to Adventure Thru Inner Space building.

@darrylhaynes 54 was the name of the biggest disco in NY.

Still waiting for a People Mover in my local downtown shopping area.

the music score for this episode was done by the late great Franklyn MArks! RIP Frank...

I'd like to Mention Tomorrowland has ridiculously had practically all their attraction sponsors including Goodyear, General Electric, and Richfield literally decline either because of not renewing their contract, or going out of business, or just leaving in general and not even caring about the attraction they once sponsored. Anyway, I don't love Disneyland's Tomorrowland until the 70s because more things and additions were happening and I will literally list everything from Tomorrowland's timeline from 1967 to 1997. July 2nd, 1967 is the day the new Tomorrowland opens, September 2nd, 1973, Carousel Of Progress closes, June 27th, 1974, America Sings replaces Carousel Of Progress. July 7th, 1974, a woman by the first name of Debbie gets crushed in the Carousel Theater, July 10th, 1974, America Sings reopens after installation of motion sensors that happened only minutes after Debbie passed away. 1977, Disneyland's Tomorrowland gets a renovation with the Peoplemover going through the new Space Mountain along with Flight To The Moon becoming Mission To Mars. 1982, Tron's Superspeed Tunnel officially becomes a Great Future For The Disneyland Peoplemover. 1986, Star Tours opens in Tomorrowland along with two Droid animatronics that were Birds in America Sings until the Star Tours construction crew went into America Sings one night and took two birds out of the show which still have their webbed feet on the Droid animatronics to this day. August 21st, 1988, America Sings closes permanently, the early 1990s is also when Tomorrowland lost even more attractions which are Mission To Mars, and The Motor Boat Cruise. In August of 1995, the Peoplemover closes Permanently with the Circle Vision 360 to follow up, this leaves only the Rocket Jets, Space Mountain, Star Tours, The Mattahorn, and the Sumberine Voyage remaining as attractions. Finally in 1997, the Rocket Jets permanently closes after 30 Years of operation. The Submarine Voyage also closed in 1997 but reopened a few years later as the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage.

If you watch at the begining, the girl is against a rear screen projection movie of torrowland. But to make it look more realistic, there's an older couple and later a younger man that walk in front of the screen as well (you can see the girl's shadow from the overhead studio lights on them as they walk by). Did anybody else notice this?

3:40 Roy E. Disney

looks more real than the supposed moon landing of 1969

it's ok and yeah wouldn't it be cool. (hopefully Disneyland is still around in 2055)

no, Roy was much older then. That was just someone that looked like Roy when he was younger. he was also older than Walt, by about 8 years.

i was 10 then....now in an old 54...

I forgot about trip to the moon. Oooooh yaaaaaaa.

When I was there recently, the people mover was inactive. So sad. I bet they closed it down due to safety "concerns".

Aha, flight to the moon is the one I was missing!

Back when Monsanto was considered a great company!

like God said Tomorrowland will never fail

I can't wait for the world of tomorrow. This guy Walt Disney obviously knows what he's talking about. ...

@stinkyvictor True, I think Tormorrow land needs a makeover.

Weird not seeing Space Mountain it didn't come till 10 years later.

it's not useless... i never said useless... it just need a major redoing/ rethemeing to get it back to Tomorrowland. They need to really think and retweak the 2055 theme that was thrown out the window.From the art paintings/ drawings i've seen the 2055 theme is really neat becuz it's futuristic/scifi but also a tribute to the 1967 Tomorrowland theme.

journey into innerspace

it is becuz u don't see the PeopleMover station that would be right behind him if it was filmed in 1967.

+awesomeferret, they closed it to make way for Rocket Rods, which then closed because they went too fast for the track structure to handle. I don't know what your issue with "safety concerns" is....

They had an effin jetpack. wow

This year is the peoplemover's 50th anniversary which might mean we could a peoplemover announcement

Where's my jetpack? They promised us Jetpacks by Now. I want my f'n jetpack and I want it now.

What the hell? Was that fella just flying a goddamn jetpack?

Granted, no one wanted to be -that- guy on Tomorrow Land's opening day.

i totally agree. it's actually Adventure Thru Inner Space. everybody misses the good classic rides. nobody likes the jerky cheap crap they're putting in the park nowadays.

I agree but I liked rocket rods better.... if they could just fix the tracks so it wont break all the time :P

Honestly anyone can think I am boring but I like Disneyland better in the 1960s and 70s

Do you have the entire episode of "Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow?" I used to have it on tape but would really like to see it in its entirety.

That looks like Roy E. Disney at 3:39.

ohhh you should see it now. (shakes head in shame) Now the paint is chipping off buildings everywhere,,, and 3/4 of the rides in tomorrowland are Pixar movie rides.

Futuristic style changes all the time, so I actually think it was brilliant to re-do Tomorrowland into its current retro-futuristic style, a design sensibility that keeps its appeal. Otherwise, trying to guess the future is a never-ending project, and things quickly become outdated and silly-looking.

@pumasgoya hear hear!

i was also born in 1990.

6:50 the first trip to the moon was in 1969 :D

I do not envy the guy in that Mickey suit. It gets hot in those things even with the refrigeration packs that modern ones have. That one would not have had one PLUS it had that helmet to catch even more of the sun. I hope they paid him extra.

Isn't there a movie coming out for this

Did anyone else see the hidden Mickey at the launch site @ 6:05 ?

Is this video available on any of the "Disney Treasures" DVD's?

People were a lot smarter back then than they are now.

I love tomorrowland, But it was outdated in 1967!

maybe a people mover will run again like Disney world who knows

it was.

Future-land looks like the 60's, The only thing realistic was the "moon flight" that happened a whole two years later. WOW...the future! People movers were kind of cool though, to bad traveling in an amusement ride technology at 15 miles per hour is not really an efficient way to travel in real life. lol