The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
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- Broadcasting on the Wonderful World of Disney, it is the grand opening television special of Walt Disney World in 1971. Julie Andrews hosts this celebration of the new Disney destination along with celebrity appearances by Glen Campbell, Bob Hope, Buddy Hackett and Jonathan Winters. This archival footage is a true Disney treasure mostly because of the Disney music in its 1970's style. Some highlights are the musical arrangements of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and "It's A Small World". Enjoy this Disney classic television event!
Wow. I am so very proud to have been one of the singers in that grand choir. When we finished "When You Wish Upon A Star," the park opened and has been open ever since.
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You where there?! That’s awesome! Did you see walt disney?
NO U FRICKS
Walt passed in 1966, he never got to see the park opened.
YOU ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT MEMES YOU NOOBS
As a former Cast Member, I am so proud to have worked at the Magic Kingdom and to have played a part in shaping WDW's legacy
Lucky
What did you do?
+WhatTaDooo I worked in Monorails and then Merchandise at the Main Street Emporium
+Mitch McDonald (McD985) Oh, that sounds like fun.
I live in Louisiana, and I'd love to apply and have an apartment in Kissimmee, but I don't know how to go about the hiring thing with Disney.
+WhatTaDooo There are two ways that I know of: #1 Go Online to the Disney Careers website disneycareers.com/en/default/ or #2 Apply in person at Main Street. There is an office towards the middle of the Emporium. I don't know if they still do #2 though.
RIP to all the legends in this presentation who are no longer around, such as Bob Hope, Glen Campbell, Jonathan Winters, Chick Hearn, and Mark Donohue.
I took a bus from Columbus, Nebraska to Orlando to be here on Opening Day of 1971. I was siting on the curb watching the whole parade pass by. In fact, right before the Jamaican steel drum music I think that young kid in the crowd who gets up and tries to get a better seat but then backs down is me. Video time 1:07:21 I fully remember making this move during the parade. It looks like skinny me and I would have been 20 years of age at the time. And guess what? I have never been back to Disney World over the years but I was there on opening day. I was also the 7th person in line when the gates officially opened. Great fond memories to say the least. Finally, I had little money that day so I had to thumb a ride from Orlando to the park. And a real Hippie Van stopped and gave me a ride. Isn't that cool? And it only cost around $8 for admission. Now it's over $100 to get in. How times have changed.
It's weird how before Disney there was nothing like Disney and there still hasn't been anything like Disney since Disney. It truly is special and we may never get it again if it goes away.
I had the good fortune of visiting Disney World in early December of 1971. I've been back several times since and I am amazed how it's grown. Can't wait for my next trip.
That such a trip to see Glen Campbell frolicking through the wilderness singing his song then he all the sudden has a monorail pass over his head. LOL
Why hasn't Julie gotten a Disney Legend Award yet? 😤😤😤
She was in 1991.
man i wish walt disney was still here so he could see how everything changed and smiles on little kids faces
....and the occasional kid that freaks out after standing in line for the Haunted Mansion and refusing to walk one step further into that creepy place. ;)
DementedCaver true
he can wach the smiles in heven c:
Me too, but if he layed off the pipes, he would survive until around the mid-1980's
DementedCaver me
Worked on the Contemporary Hotel with my dad during summer break of my college years. He was project manager over the concrete work. At times he would have as many as 500 workers on the books. It still amazes me that the project was completed as quickly as it was. They did not have the technology that we have today to complete projects quickly instead they worked around the clock to get things completed on schedule. Fun time in my life.
My father worked on the World's HVAC systems. He and five other journeymen would leave at night on Sunday from Miami to spend all week and return late on Fridays. Many times they worked through the weekends. And all the time there he didn't take one photo. That I wish I had, It must have been magnificent to see the grounds rise from a swamp.
Glad to hear you and your father were one of the professionals! I've read stories of Roy Disney walking around LOUNGING construction workers at that site.
What a neat experience for you!
WDW DID NOT REPEAT THE MISTAKES OF DISNEYLAND. WALT. BOUGHT MEGA TRACTS OF LAND INCORPORATED A TOWN REDDY CREEK AND VIRTUALLY CREATED HID OWN WAY OF GETTINGD THINGS DONE WITHOUT GRAFT AND CORRUPTIONS.
I too was one of the lucky singers at the grand opening of WDW.This still gives chills replaying it an remembering the magnitude of the whole thing. Walt, Roy thanks, we will never forget this.
why am i tearing up? darn u julie andrews. get it together man. get it together...
This is when Sunday evenings were magical watching TV with the family.
MrDavelitz , thru all the 70s, every Sunday at 7pm our TV was ALWAYS tuned to NBC and The Wonderful World of Disney!
I just can't believe that most of these things still stand at Walt Disney World..
LOVE the Glen Campbell tune that starts this video!!!!!!
landyachtfan79 I was wondering who that was.
Julie Andrews did all of the leaping and dancing throughout the park....in high heels. She is superhuman, lol!
lol
Wonderful Julie Andrews!
this was on Julie Andrews' birthday! how cool is that?!
Danielle Urton yeah I share a birthday with her, I can say I share a birthday with Disney World too I guess :)
Walt Disney World opened 12 days before I was born - I think that's why I'm a Disney fanatic :)
Disneyworld opened on the day my dad is born
Opened 5 years after his death... Couldn't he have stayed with us a little longer?! :'c
Good thing his older brother Roy O. Disney opened the park.
Indeed that was a very good thing Roy lived to see it open..... Then he died 2 months later. R.I.P
Cigarettes'll do that to you
I believe if Walt had lived into the 1970's Walt Disney World would be a different place than it ended up becoming.
@@TrentonBlessWrestlemania489 If Walt Disney's condition weren't known by his inner circle to be terminal, they probably would have disabused him of the notion that EPCOT was viable. Maybe the 1970s Walt Disney World *is* what Walt Disney would have settled for. Roy O. Disney did a remarkable job of working many of Walt's more fanciful ideas into the Florida Project.
I can't wait to see what they have planned for the 50th anniversary! Maybe they'll get Julie Andrews to recreate the grand opening again.
Avethine I would love to be in the choir for that!
Unfortunately Julie Andrews can't sing anymore and hasn't sung since the late 90s.
No they in today's world we would have lady Gaga try to do it and God forbid one who can sing Mariah Carey who got over 20 yrs and lots of hits would do it you would see ppl mad saying julie Andrews is white lol like the new little mermaid damn ppl its color look into the soul and heart quit crying over everything and know times have changed but also know talent from crap and that's in anything in life bob hope then now we have konan o'Brien we use to have Geraldo as a talk show host who would visit places and discuss matters now we have Maury who reads a paternity result you are not the father that's our world we use to watch Johnny Carson now we have jimmy lol if u are 20 now or 30 you missed everything 20 especially you are gonna live in a world where jessica Simpson is princess Diana!!
that would be awesome!
Covid, they'll have covid...
19:18.......Classic Bob Hope. "Wait for me in Adventureland" LOL
“When John Wayne doodles... he doodles”
I thought I had heard "When You Wish Upon A Star"... and then I heard Julie Andrews sing it and heard it for the first and the one millionth time
It's That Julie Andrews The Girl Behind The Sound Of Music In 1965 And Disney's Mary Poppins In 1964. X
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It's almost time for the 50th anniversary!
I remember seeing this at my grandpa Mckee's house that Sunday. They had a COLOR TV!
Your Grandpa... Mickey?? lol ;) That's a very appropriate name! Your grandpa must've been SUPER cool!
The Bob Hope speech always makes me a little choked up "From Disney with Love" indeed.
So sad that Walt didn't get to see this come to fruition.
His older brother Roy was able to thankfully.
Why is all this stuff not on Disney+!!
Thank you Roy Disney! Without you who knows what would have happened with this park.
Graupella nothing would have happened because there wouldn’t be a Disney world
WDW WAS IN PLANNING AS EEARLY AS. 1959. WHEN WALT STARTED BUYING UP PROPERTY AS SHELL COMPANIES
Man, how I wanna go back to these days, cuz let's face it....we had some great shit back then, compared to today's crap, which isn't all that great.....oh how I wanna go back & relive those days.....😕
I remember watching this on TV back when it aired. I especially remember the Jonathan Winters part (poor Margaret). That is how I found this on TH-cam by doing a search for Jonathan Winters & Disney.
Julie Andrews what a legend
Doubtlessly I watched this when it was first broadcast. I don't recall it, but there is no doubt that the 14 year-old me would not have missed it.
I was there on this exact day 50 years later to celebrate there 50 year anniversary.. And have been back to celebrate it again one more time after that. We love ya Walt Disney World!
Yes it is great. I auditioned in August 6 weeks before opening day October 1st, 1971. I had not been home more than 5 minutes when the phone rang. WDW Entertainment Division from Califorina was calling to tell me I got the part and would start the next day becoming an Original Cast Member of the WDW Entertainment Division! 18 hour days through October 1st, 1973. WE did it all back then and then some. Worked with the greats of Hollywood, Movies, TV and Broadway & They All loved coming to WDW. We could do it all back then. I would do 12 days and then off for 36 hours. My get away was Key West and if you saw back then 6 or 8 people walking around Key West it was as crowd. I know it has all changed. There were only 1.5 million people living in Florida back then, now 21 million! ouch! The 1st two years were magical and for all cast members omg the few hours off were always Party Land. Ok I will not tell tales I do not have as many lawyers as Disney does! lol Cast members from back then know what I am talking about. I then went on the road as a Headliner after 2 years with Disney and toured the country for 2 years. My dream was to always get booked and play Broadway NYC. That dream came true. So with 4+ years of 24/7 Entertainment my dreams came true and then some. I was back at WDW in 1998 at Christmas to be Honored and I want to go back this coming Christmas 2017. I hope I can make that dream come true. :( i will be alone this time, I will have the Magic of Disney to get me through. I thing I keep seeing people saying in comments and today, they use the word 'Rides'. They were called 'Attractions' and if you were heard saying Rides it was grounds for being fired. Walt never thought of them as Rides, ever. He created 'Attractions' to experience. We also had who we called Greta Groomer. She walked all around the Magic Kingdom and Resorts to make sure the skirts were right length, hair was cut right on men, no one was chewing gum or ever smoking on stage. If she wrote someone up 3 times they were gone! I wonder if she is still living? In Entertainment we could have mustaches and long sideburns and hair could go beyond regular cast members. Entertainment Cast Members had some good perks. We surely all got along. Oh and the food was great. As any Cast Member could get in one of the 3 Cast Member Cafeterias any meal we wanted for only $1 Dollar. 6 months after opening I was one of the founding Union Members. The majority of all Cast Members joined. Due's were low and perks were great. Disneyland Cast Members blew a fuse as they had been trying to get a Union and never could. We were able to get pay raises for hourly cast members and contracts for many avenues that were never possible without a Union. Management in any Division were salary and could never join the Union. It remained strong while I was there. I heard through the years it changed. All I can say is the very first 2 Years were the BEST! How I wish I could connect with those I worked with years ago. Oh I have been on many WDW web sites. Not so easy to navigate. I would recommend anyone applying to work at WDW. In those first 2 years we had 12,000 cast members in all divisions. We had 50,000 daily coming and going. Yes there were some 25,000 days but they were few to the regular attending. After 4+ years in Entertainment Field I went and served my country in the Air Force then worked my way through University and then went into Law Enforcement for 3 Decades. This program for network was filmed in 3+ days, I worked with Julie and Glenn and they were just great and Winters could tell the bluest jokes and have you laughing so much. Hope came in to shoot the scene at the Contemporary Hotel and then left to go back to California. I saw Julie last week on the Late Show w/Stephen Colbert and she was funny and great and still so talented. Glenn has full blown Alzheimer's, What a talent he has been. There are no cures for Alzheimers just a lot of money to be made. :( Warmest Regards, Agent/Officer Thomas (Tommy) A. Porter D.P.O. Med. Ret. A.P.V. 02/20/2017
Agent/Officer Thomas A. Porter D.P.O. ,
What a great write up, thanks for those rare stories.
My family was lucky enough to attend wdw Grand Opening on 10/25/71 (was my sisters birthday present). I remember tomorrowland only had 4 attractions, and we pretty much finished riding EVERYTHING in about 4 or 5 hours. We attended wdw throughout the 70s well over 50 times (we lived near Tampa), and have since attended close to 500 times.
I cant say how or why, but wdw of the 70s indeed had MUCH MORE Magic than it has now. It just seems now Disney is more focused on cost and profit margins than they are avout quality and guest satisfaction.
I gotta believe Walt would be quite impressed with wdw today, but i also firmly believe he would be extremely disappointed with how his parks are being mismanaged and alot of Walt's beliefs no longer being followed..
Would've read all this if there was some paragraphs.... too bad. My loss.
It's been 45 years today since WDW opened up Magic Kingdom! Happy Birthday Walt Disney World!
Happy Birthday Indeed!
Nathan Diaz 46 this year.
happy birthday!
Justin Blystone it's not 46 this year, it's 45
Nicole Marsden Why you say?
How could anyone give this a thumbs down? It is awesome!
Yeah
I was upset by this show as a kid. Too much corny adult singing, not enough footage of the rides and attractions. Now It's quaint.
Maybe because of the video and audio quality?
@@kennandersen6815 Way too much singing!
I want to see someone go to Disney dressed as Julie Andrews in the beginning of this. ❤❤❤
Monorails looks exactly the same and just as awesome
I love the blind optimism of these old Disney specials. No smart-mouthed/jaded kids, no irony, etc. (Geez, I sound like an old geezer!) But Oof.... Bob Hope's and Jonathon winter's comedic material: P-U.
just sexist husbands -_-
It was a white male world back then.
And gas was 30 cents gallon. No woman's lib house was 25k to buy and take family in there new 3k chevy on drive for 600 bucks.........
This show was the reason my parents took me to Disney for the first time later in 1971. Now I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been back.
Julie Andrews is so beautiful and her voice like angels, even the slowest rendition of "when you wish upon a star" is beautiful (and I generally don't like slow music)
Viviana Cavazos I agree. Bitch had a great ass too!
lol
I'm also glad she reflected back on her experience hosting this opening day telecast in the 50th anniversary special!
Two of my favorite loves: Disney and Julie Andrews :D
Julie Andrews just freed all the trapped children on the ride.
24:03 - The orchestra is playing Pines of Rome, which 28 years later would appear in Fantasia 2000!
Gosh, sometimes I wish I was ten years old again!
you don't need to be 10 years old again to go to disneyland
Martha Acero yeah but it feels good to be young
At 65 and 68 my husband still go to WDW 3-4 times a year. There is always something new to see and do. It’s a favorite place to vacation. We have seen a lot of changes in the last 15 years
MrDavelitz I hate being old. It sucks. But then I had the worst childhood imaginable so I guess I'm fucked both ways. Please pray for me. I visited Walt Disneyworld as a 5 year old in 1972.
Hard to believe the 50th is coming up! Went there with my family in the 70's, so it making me feel old! The Golden age of WDW was pretty amazing!
The song Bunny, Bubbles, and Bhula sang at 29:40 is my LIFE ANTHEM!!!!
"All the guys who turns me on, turn me down." ME!!!!!!! 😂😂😂
I loved the ending when so many freaking balloons flew over the magic kingdom!
me too 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😎😎😎😎😇😇😇😇😇😛😛😝😜😜😙😙😗😚😘😍😉☺😊😀😃😄🐟🐠🐬🐟🐬🐬🐟🐠🐠🐠🐬🐟🐠yeah
Rip Glen Campbell.
For some reason, I really liked the country bear song segment.
This is truly the happiest place on earth
The music is literally perfection
I'm 19 years old and watching this
I was there. Nothing but great memories that will last forever.
Wow can't believe that WDW is nearly fifty years old now, i went there with my family when i was 10 back in the spring of 2004 and it was an one heck of an amazing time. This video here shows how simple the park was when it first opened and boy was it ever so compared to even when i was there that one time, they have continuously added and removed attractions over it's 47 year history.
The nostalgia from this video is getting pretty thick in the air here-it seems to be getting in my eyes and making them water...
Why haven't I seen this!? It's so wonderful!!
Hall of Presidents is a necessary evil😂😂
One time I rode the jungle cruise during really late magic hours and our guide at the end said "thank you if you have enjoyed your stay then I am Ashely and this has been the jungle cruise
If you didn't like it then my name has been laqueesha and this has been, the hall of presidents" she's still my favorite skipper ever
+Gianna Gronowski My parents nap during the hall of presidents
Retro Rob ssI remember seeing this on T V I was just a kisd the first time I saw Glen Campbell
WALT DISNEY Purchased Enough Land In FLORIDA This Time, Well As The Old Saying Goes - "YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET" - Where Else Or Who Else Has Brought Such Pleasure and Joy To The Public - I Think A Heart Filled THANK YOU WALT DISNEY Is Honored Here ...
I was there in the first year...I was only 2, and have very sketchy memories, but I *do* remember that Snow White scared the crap out of me! That said, I've been a Disney World and 'Disney' fanatic my entire life. I'm grateful that first experience didn't deter me. Disney is truly one of my happiest places. :)
If I had a time machine I would go back in time to a day before the opening and buy an old camera then I'll take a selfie! Lol
Oh it's so very 70's. And I love it.
I'm sorry to say that when I went to Disney World the first time I got sick and didn't enjoy it as much but one ride I remember was the It's a Small World ride, the music made me want to jump off the boat but it was enchanting.
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It's amazing how they avoid showing any rides until like 50 minutes in.
WOW!! i've never gotten to the end of this video but i just did and im glad i did that was the most beautiful thing i've ever seen i love it!!!!!!!!!!
I still have a crush on Julie Andrews!
If I'm judging it right, he's walking through the land cleared for the original intended site of the Caribbean Resort, between the Magic Kingdom and the current Grand Floridian, coming from the direction of what is now Shades of Green.
I thought the same thing. You can still see some of this when you're on the monorail
I remember the Mickey Mouse Review. The first room had a move screen with a film, It was a "voice / sound wave" that would talk to the audience about what they were about to see. I loved the Cinderella part, being I was only five at the time. I miss this show. I would love to see Philharmagic become animatronic like this once was. Disney needs a museum for the things that once were...Mickey Review, the Swan boats, the original Hall of Presidents, old costumes, to name a few. A lot has changed over the years. Re-imagine River Country near Fort Wilderness!
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*Revue
Caron The Cat Stfu you stupid fucking cat
WHEN you Wish upon a star no matter where you are!!🎶🎶🎵🎵
I'm glad to be part wdw's legacy I been there twice 2009 and 2010 I had great memories there.
Thank you so much for posting this. It brought back a memory of my childhood with my parents. I'm so grateful. :)
How old are you? 0.o
The end gave me goose bumps
I was born 16 year after this wonderful place was opened. I went only when I was Two, and got to run around Epcot with out any chaperone's at 11. But my goal is to go back to this wonderful place.
You gotta love the costumes in this!
Bob Hope is so damn funny!
That is so cool that Indycar driver Mark Donahue is in the race clip!! Sadly he died shortly later in a race. RIP Mark Donahue.
I actually remember watching this when originally aired, I would have been almost 7 at the time. But, in reality the ONLY part I really remember was the scene of Buddy Hackett driving (riding in?) Herbie the Love Bug on the WDW speedway, and even then it was that "spoon in the road" that I remember!
Wish a DVD version was available!
Disney World is massive, compared to Disneyland...A great place and experience...but one can't take away the quaintness and special-ness, nostalgia and magic of Disneyland. They both though, are special...each, in their own way.
I’m glad that Julie Andrews Appeared On The Grand Opening Of Walt Disney World Walt Disney Would Love This Walt Disney And Julie Were Best Friends Julie Was Beautiful As Mary Poppins She’s Practically Perfect In Every Way
At about 13:32, Mickey is seen waving without the 4-fingered oversize gloves. That just looks strange to me today!
J. Ryan Beardall
Those gloves have 5 fingers.
4 fingered gloves came later.
@@shanuthejackal4817 if somebody tell why mickey has 4 finger , animator at disney in 1920s said , it was easy to be animated
@@m.syauqiabdurahman2798 I'm talking about in real life, not animation bruh
My first trip to Disney World was in the summer of 1994. I was 11 years old. We stayed a week and did everything there was to do at the parks, saw Discovery Island, did all the minigolf courses, a luau at the Polynesian and anything else we could squeeze in. I've been back several times since for briefer stays but man, that first trip was unforgettable. Truly a once in a lifetime experience.
RIP Glen Campbell
Today is the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World. So great to see it at the beginning. Can't wait to go again.
whoa! people talked so diffrent back then even though they still speak english its almost like a diffrent tone or something
Haha. I know what you mean but I think it's the background noise from the video, making it sound vintage. When you close your eyes also, they speak with the same accent as Americans today...
really fun vid ! I wasn't aware of the 71 special, but on my way to watch it now ! Thanks Micah
Country Bear Band and their Instruments
Zeke - Banjo and Dish Pan
Zeb - Fiddle
Ted - Corn jug and Washboard
Fred - Harmonica (Mouth Harp)
Tennessee - Thing
I was there the first time in December 1974. Seems like a long time ago
Disney was always so ahead of its time. Like the amazon of its time
what a serious and somber tone this had- i would assume because it is a sad fact Walt was not there to see it-and so it is clouded in sadness
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Well it tell me before Disneyland was build amazing amazing you guys that made Disneyland did a great job you built it so beautiful!!!!!!!!!
i loved disney classic stuff..
This was a very different time. Making it one of the greatest our entertainment industry has and will ever see.
poor glen campbell. what this brought back to me was memories of the days when you didn't get announcements of every sidewalk replacement at WDW and actually were surprised when a new attraction or land would appear. imagine if we didn't get to know the details about star wars land until it opened.
The whole Hall of Presidents segment brought tears to my eyes. I'm glad to be an American, where I know I'm free. God Bless this country. USA! USA! USA!
Justin Blystone Disney would have ruined it now by adding Donald Trump.
Douglas Roth Please, let this video be, not a place of political debate and discussion, but of our love for some of the content provided to us.
Justin Blystone I was only stating the truth.
Douglas Roth Well, the truth you speak of and the truth that others speak of are two completely different truths. But, I say again. Let this video be, not a place for political debate and discussion, but a place for our love of some of the content provided.
Justin Blystone in not American but I live in s America I'm Mexican and we get neglected to much I mean at Disney they treated us like royalty and I loved it
call me crazy but i live in california and would love to visit wdw, yes we have disneyland but i'd like to visit wdw just to experience what the east coast is like. is there anyone that is from california and has gone to wdw before?
Loved vintage Disneyland never get tried of hearing or seeing this intro.
I miss Walt Disney World
So sad what Mr. Campbell is going through now :-(
Thank you for uploading this in the correct shape. Too many old shows are uploaded in 16:9, either stretched or pillarboxed.
Why am I crying? Because I have sooo many good memories of all that is Walt Disney :) and I always thank the good Lord for that!
I have pics on this phone from my visit in June. Such an amazing place to see with your family.