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Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 5:50 David Rosenthal Epcot has just launched in Florida, not as Walt Disney's utopian dream of a city of the future, but as a massively over budget and underwhelming World's Fair knockoff that the company has sunk hundreds of millions of dollars deep into debt…
- ▶ 48:38 David Rosenthal It goes from, ah, yeah, we got Disney World, and we got Epcot, and sure, come to Florida.
- ▶ 1:13:30 Ben Gilbert It was actually part of the problems they were going through in 83, along with Epcot cost overruns.
The Walt Disney Company: The most successful enterprise for monetizing human nostalgia (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:49 David Rosenthal This is the trip that ultimately results in the, uh, Disney film Saludos Amigos and the Three Caballeros, if you've seen those or been to the Three Caballeros ride in, uh, Disney World and Epcot.
- ▶ 3:42:37 David Rosenthal Maybe like an experimental prototype community of tomorrow.
- ▶ 3:42:46 David Rosenthal You know, Epcot.
- ▶ 3:42:49 Ben Gilbert And if you think you know what we're talking about because you've been to Epcot,
- ▶ 3:42:55 Ben Gilbert That's a theme park named Epcot, but Walt had this insane, insane vision that never got built, but got pretty far along in the process for, again, a fever dream, not just of a place that you go for a day, but a place where you live and you…
- ▶ 3:50:03 David Rosenthal And then four, most important, the heart of the whole project is Epcot.
- ▶ 3:50:10 David Rosenthal But again, not the Epcot you know today.
- ▶ 3:50:12 David Rosenthal So, Walt's Epcot was going to be, in his own words, a living blueprint of the future where people actually live a life they can't find anywhere else in the world.
- ▶ 3:54:26 David Rosenthal So in late October of 1966, Walt records a film of a pitch, a full reveal for the Epcot vision.
- ▶ 3:55:58 David Rosenthal Finally, in November of 1966, so right after recording the Epcot pitch video,
- ▶ 3:56:38 David Rosenthal Right in the middle of this Epcot thing.
- ▶ 3:58:18 David Rosenthal Full approval from the Florida State Legislature to build Epcot, to build Walt Disney World.
- ▶ 3:59:44 David Rosenthal So it's just the Magic Kingdom, there's no city, there's no Epcot, there's no airport, there's no industrial park.