Marketing film for Walt Disney World showing the creation of the new theme park, with footage of WED designers at work, actual construction, scale models, the Preview Center, and Walt Disney discussing his hopes for the project from an earlier 1966 film.
Direction
Algar turns a sales pitch into elegy.
Production
The 1966 Walt footage — a ghost pitching his own monument.
Editing
Seamless time collapse: model becomes reality becomes memory.
Director
James Algar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of the last times Walt appeared on film; he died of lung cancer four months after the 1966 EPCOT footage was shot.
WED (Walter Elias Disney) Imagineers were literally named after him — this entire project is a mausoleum with rides.
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