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...left to the imagination of the late Walt Disney and to the ingenuity of his staff, however, to surpass Disneyland-and last week they did. In the swamps and scrublands of Central Florida 20 miles southwest of Orlando, a $400 million. 27,500-acre enclave called Walt Disney World was opened to the public. "World" is right. The latest Disney enterprise, four years in the building, includes a spotlessly clean amusement area, two enormous and elaborate hotels with marinas and beaches, two championship-caliber golf courses, lavishly landscaped lakes and a futuristic transportation network linking everything...
Unisex Uniforms. Because Founder Walt Disney was distressed by the sprawling, unsightly commercial ventures that sprang up around Disneyland to take advantage of the influx of tourists, the designers of Disney World were careful to guard against a similar blight: the land area is large enough to keep other entrepreneurs away from the amusement and recreational areas. Sleek thruways lead to turnpike-like toll gates, and from the 12,000-car parking lot a Space Age monorail, operated by youngsters in futuristic unisex jumpsuits and helmets, sweeps visitors off to hotels and amusement areas...
Thus far the most popular amusement attraction is the Mickey Mouse Review, in which an automated air-driven Mickey Mouse leads 86 mechanical Disney characters through all the Disney hits, including "Three Caballeros" and "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", and winds up with the Disney Anthem, the Mickey Mouse Club song. Running the review a close second is the Country Bear Jamboree: 18 cleverly animated bear robots, highlighted by a paunchy, off-key, gravel-voiced grizzly named Big Al, that grind out country music and rural humor. Like the robots in the Mickey Mouse Review...
...hotels, shops, beaches and other recreational facilities at Disney World that really set the new complex apart from Disneyland and its imitators. Disneymen call their creation a "total destination resort"-not just a stopover, in other words, but a place to spend a weekend or a week. Early guests have been staying at the Polynesian Village Hotel, built in Tahitian style along a lake shore, with 500 rooms in five so-called long houses. The Contemporary Resort Hotel, which looks vaguely like a Mayan pyramid and features a 14-story-deep lobby appropriately called the Grand Canyon Concourse, will...
Feild, Associate of North House, worked with Disney early in his career. Speaking on the Disney style, he said. "Animation is the contemporary art form. But after 'Fantasia', it ceased to be art. Animation is a terribly expensive craft--in a competitive economy, animation can't afford to be an art form...