"Disneyland was more than an amusement park... in Walt's imagination." "He saw it as a tribute to Americana... and an embodiment of the American dream." "When you wish upon a star" "Here now to tell you about it is Walt Disney." "Welcome." "I guess you all know this little fella here." "It's an old partnership." "Mickey and I started out the first time... many, many years ago." "We've had a lot of our dreams come true... but now we want you to share with us... our latest and greatest dream." "That's it right here..." "Disneyland... seen from about 2,000 feet in the air... and ten months away." "I want to tell you about it, because later on in the show... you'll find that Disneyland the place... and Disneyland the TVshow are all part of the same." "Shooting out from here... like the four cardinal points of the compass..." "Disneyland is divided into four cardinal realms... the four different worlds... from which our television shows will originate." "They are..." "Adventureland..." "Tomorrowland..." "Fantasyland... and Frontierland." "Disneyland's opening day... became an event of national significance... by being broadcast coast to coast on live television." "To host the event..." "Walt called on three well-known figures... who personified the same all-American values... as the park itself..." "Art Linkletter... then at the height of his television career... as the genial host of his own daily show, House Party." "Popular movie and TVactor Robert Cummings... and Hollywood leading man Ronald Reagan... whose all-American credentials... took him far beyond California in the years to come." "All activity on Main Street has ceased." "And now Walt Disney will step forward... to read the dedication of Disneyland." "To all who come to this happy place, welcome." "Disneyland is your land." "Here age relives fond memories of the past... and here youth may savor... the challenge and promise of the future." "Open the Fantasyland Castle... in the name of the children of the world!" "As much as Walt drew on the past... in shaping Disneyland... he also looked to the future... both literally and figuratively." "Tomorrowland was right in step... with America's forward thinking of the 1950s... that led to the conquest of space." "Some of Walt's early concepts didn't pan out... like the stagecoach ride, which jostled its passengers... just as the real life vehicles must've done in the 1800s." "It was quietly retired to make room for new ideas." "Hiya, Fess." "What happened?" "We'd have been here sooner... but we took a shortcut through the Painted Desert." "And Walt wasn't gonna miss an opportunity... to showcase the stars... of his hugely popular Davy Crockett program." "Snow is frozen on the ground" "Pack of hungry wolves came round" "Ohh, bang" "Opening day at Disneyland was chaos." "A traffic jam stretched for seven miles... as people who were scheduled to arrive every two hours... showed up all at once." "Rides broke down." "Food ran out." "There was a gas leak in Fantasyland." "A live television broadcast added to the confusion." "Art Linkletter is looking for a microphone." "He looks all confused." "He's standing over there in front of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride." "Now here he comes with his microphone." "He's coming out..." "Art Linkletter." "Mr. Disney's great picture Wind in the Willows... inspires this ride..." "Mr. Toad on a 1903 automobile." "When Disneyland opened... it was an immediate success with the public." "In fact, it soon became a must-see attraction... for visiting heads of state... although the most famous visit never even happened." "Khrushchev was a guest of the government... and our chief of police..." "he just was a little worried." "And we were ready for him." "The press was ready." "We had different shots... places where we'd take pictures with Khrushchev... and I had one, my favorite... where I'd... we'd lined up... in front of my eight submarines, you see... and I thought it would be nice." "I'd be pointing to Mr. Khrushchev... saying, "Well now, Mr. Khrushchev..." ""here's my Disneyland submarine fleet"." "Ha ha ha ha!" "But in 1959, a few world leaders... did make it through the Magic Kingdom's gates... including Vice President Richard Nixon." "Here we were with our monorail... the forerunner of rapid transit of the future... all checked out and ready to go... but somebody forgot to check out the scissors." "Oh, to heck with it." "If you can't cut it, break it." "Right." "Walt's commissions to create rides and attractions... for the 1964 New York World's Fair... paid off handsomely... when he moved them all, lock, stock, and barrel... back to Anaheim after the fair shut down." "When we needed a cast of lifelike figures... for our most ambitious project, Disneyland... we found ourselves in this new field of animation... in a big way." "Working on those cutting-edge attractions... also spurred his imagineers... to new heights of creativity... and brought a new word into our language... audio-animatronics." "Well, actually, it wasn't as simple as that." "Just as we had to learn to make... our animated cartoons talk... we had to find a way... to make these characters talk, too." "Now, to accomplish this... we created a new type of animation... so new that we had to invent a new name for it..." "Audio-animatronics?" "Right, audio-animatronics." "Walt was never satisfied with the status quo... in his moviemaking... or in his thinking about Disneyland." "He knew better than anyone... that the park should change and evolve... reflecting public taste and advances in technology... and he inspired his team to constantly reach... for a great big beautiful tomorrow."