The Making of the Disney MGM Studios Theme Park - TV Special 1989
RobFuz
[{'start': '3.920', 'end': '8.880', 'text': 'this is the Disney MGM Studios theme park at\xa0\nWalt Disney World in Florida now these people'}, {'start': '8.880', 'end': '13.680', 'text': "have come here by planes trains automobiles\xa0\nand Montreals and they're about to have the"}, {'start': '13.680', 'end': '18.240', 'text': "feeling they're not in Kansas anymore hi I'm\xa0\nFred Newman and I'm going to show you what"}, {'start': '18.240', 'end': '22.160', 'text': "makes this place different than anything\xa0\nyou've ever experienced here the magic of"}, {'start': '22.160', 'end': '28.320', 'text': 'the movies comes to life right before your\xa0\neyes and it all begins just inside this gate'}, {'start': '47.800', 'end': '48.800', 'text': '[Music]'}, {'start': '48.800', 'end': '54.880', 'text': 'at the Disney MGM Studios theme park guests\xa0\ngain admission to a dream factory where the'}, {'start': '54.880', 'end': '58.320', 'text': 'working film and television studio\xa0\ncreates entertainment ment destined'}, {'start': '58.320', 'end': '63.040', 'text': "for the world's airwaves and movie screens\xa0\nwhere a theme park built in the style of"}, {'start': '63.040', 'end': '67.280', 'text': "Hollywood's heyday ushers guests into\xa0\na world of classic movies and movie"}, {'start': '67.280', 'end': '86.040', 'text': "characters you'll think you've stepped\xa0\nright through the silver screen [Music]"}, {'start': '87.600', 'end': '93.280', 'text': 'it looked like my kind of joint the art deco\xa0\narchitecture and the Hollywood landmarks made'}, {'start': '93.280', 'end': '100.400', 'text': 'me feel at home but still I had questions\xa0\nwho built this place and why maybe she'}, {'start': '100.400', 'end': '107.600', 'text': 'had the answers lucky for me she was all\xa0\nears they were hammering they were nailing'}, {'start': '107.600', 'end': '113.520', 'text': 'they were building oh it was unbelievable\xa0\n[Music] she knew the big cheese who gave'}, {'start': '113.520', 'end': '119.600', 'text': 'the orders she knew the gang who carried\xa0\nout the plans she said her name was many'}, {'start': '119.600', 'end': '125.120', 'text': 'but her memory was Maxi names places and\xa0\ndates spilled out of her like the jackpot'}, {'start': '125.120', 'end': '130.160', 'text': 'on a nickel slot machine she knew more about\xa0\nthis job than your dentist knows about your'}, {'start': '130.160', 'end': '140.240', 'text': "mouth yeah it's a story with more twist than\xa0\na taxi dancer so listen tight and I'll tell"}, {'start': '140.240', 'end': '150.080', 'text': 'you what I know about the Disney MGM Studios theme\xa0\npark according to this scale I am 6 miles tall now'}, {'start': '150.080', 'end': '161.520', 'text': "it's 12 miles from here up to here and the whole\xa0\narea encompasses 27,400 acres that is 43 square"}, {'start': '161.520', 'end': '170.560', 'text': 'miles twice the size of the island of Manhattan\xa0\nin 1971 Walt Disney World opened its gates'}, {'start': '170.560', 'end': '178.240', 'text': '1982 gave the world Epcot Center and with the 1989\xa0\npremiere of the Disney MGM Studios theme park the'}, {'start': '178.240', 'end': '183.600', 'text': 'Disney Company unveiled yet another masterpiece\xa0\nof imagination on the huge canvas of its Central'}, {'start': '183.600', 'end': '189.680', 'text': 'Florida property i think you get a double whammy\xa0\nif you shift them out a couple feet yeah we about'}, {'start': '189.680', 'end': '194.160', 'text': "that so we need to get a height on that and see\xa0\nif there's any trees that would do that 6 months"}, {'start': '194.160', 'end': '197.760', 'text': 'ago I walked through this place when it was still\xa0\ndirt and things were just coming out of the ground'}, {'start': '197.760', 'end': '202.480', 'text': 'and we were in the midst of all the the working\xa0\ndrawings and all the budget compromises and all'}, {'start': '202.480', 'end': '208.080', 'text': 'the things that you go through and I took up to\xa0\nthe I took a trip up to the Magic Kingdom and'}, {'start': '208.080', 'end': '211.760', 'text': 'walked through the hub area of the Magic Kingdom\xa0\nand when you look at the hub area of the Magic'}, {'start': '211.760', 'end': '217.360', 'text': "Kingdom and the castle and all the architecture\xa0\nand everything it's a scary thing because you"}, {'start': '217.360', 'end': '222.640', 'text': "know that the that the precedent that's been\xa0\nset here and at Disneyland is extremely high"}, {'start': '222.640', 'end': '228.000', 'text': "it's extraordinarily high and so the weight that\xa0\nyou suddenly feel is you've got to be as good as"}, {'start': '228.000', 'end': '237.200', 'text': "that or you're disappointing the whole reputation\xa0\nthat Disney has what used to be oh 60 to 70 hour"}, {'start': '237.200', 'end': '242.320', 'text': 'weeks have grown to 80 90 100 hour weeks as we\xa0\ntry and do all of the finishing touches we try'}, {'start': '242.320', 'end': '249.120', 'text': "and make sure that everything is perfect i don't\xa0\nthink you can work this kind of job and not be"}, {'start': '249.120', 'end': '254.000', 'text': "proud of what you're going to do and not take\xa0\na great deal of enjoyment from it as well to"}, {'start': '254.000', 'end': '260.240', 'text': "realize what you're doing that 5 million guests a\xa0\nyear from now and forever are going to enjoy it's"}, {'start': '260.240', 'end': '265.360', 'text': "a working movie studio open to the public it's\xa0\na theme park built in the best traditions of"}, {'start': '265.360', 'end': '271.040', 'text': "Disney entertainment it's a happy mixture of old\xa0\nHollywood and new technology and wherever you look"}, {'start': '271.040', 'end': '277.360', 'text': "there's evidence of someone's good idea come to\xa0\nlife it's theatrical it's fun it's entertaining"}, {'start': '277.360', 'end': '282.000', 'text': "it's everything that Disney stands for it's got\xa0\na little bit of me in it it's got a little bit of"}, {'start': '282.000', 'end': '288.160', 'text': "uh all of our uh new executives in the company\xa0\nplus uh a lot of everybody that's been here i"}, {'start': '288.160', 'end': '295.200', 'text': "don't think anybody else has the resources to\xa0\nattack quality the way we do uh most people take"}, {'start': '295.200', 'end': '300.000', 'text': "shortcuts for either economic reasons or because\xa0\nthey're lazy you know most people take shortcuts"}, {'start': '300.000', 'end': '304.720', 'text': "because they just don't know how to do it right\xa0\nand this company has such a history of not taking"}, {'start': '304.720', 'end': '311.280', 'text': 'that shortcut going down the path uh that is the\xa0\nhardest the toughest the most painful and the most'}, {'start': '311.280', 'end': '319.840', 'text': "expensive to gain a quality that that it's fun to\xa0\nbe around the street performance the architecture"}, {'start': '319.840', 'end': '327.680', 'text': 'the movie soundtrack playing in the background\xa0\nyep somebody had hijacked Hollywood moved it from'}, {'start': '327.680', 'end': '334.880', 'text': 'a state of mind to the state of Florida it was\xa0\nthe kind of job that could only be pulled off by'}, {'start': '334.880', 'end': '341.760', 'text': "Imagineers it is the equivalent of Disneyland's\xa0\nand the Magic Kingdom's Main Street a fantastic"}, {'start': '341.760', 'end': '346.800', 'text': "thoroughare that lets you know immediately\xa0\nyou've crossed over into another place in"}, {'start': '346.800', 'end': '352.880', 'text': "another time it's pretty exciting looking at all\xa0\nthe different architectural work that's around and"}, {'start': '352.880', 'end': '356.800', 'text': "you get to see a part of Hollywood if you don't\xa0\ngo to California you can see it in Disney World"}, {'start': '356.800', 'end': '362.080', 'text': "it's incredible nothing like this in Ohio there\xa0\nwasn't anything like it in Florida either this"}, {'start': '362.080', 'end': '367.120', 'text': 'is how the site looked in April of 1987 the only\xa0\nthing that distinguished Hollywood Boulevard was'}, {'start': '367.120', 'end': '389.240', 'text': 'the crater that would become Echo Lake then\xa0\ncame the armies of men and machines [Music]'}, {'start': '392.240', 'end': '397.520', 'text': "construction I would characterize as war\xa0\neverything's happening at once and the"}, {'start': '397.520', 'end': '403.680', 'text': 'only way that you can control an operation\xa0\nlike that is with a lot of sort of military'}, {'start': '403.680', 'end': '409.600', 'text': "organized skill and that that's what happens\xa0\nduring the initial process of construction"}, {'start': '409.600', 'end': '415.200', 'text': 'the Hollywood Boulevard the Disney Imagineers\xa0\ncreated was an idealized avenue dominated by'}, {'start': '415.200', 'end': '421.600', 'text': 'the energetic architectural styles of the 20s\xa0\nand 30s they studied the art deco buildings'}, {'start': '421.600', 'end': '427.680', 'text': 'of Hollywood some have been restored some have\xa0\nsuffered through years of careless modification'}, {'start': '427.680', 'end': '433.520', 'text': 'some are hidden or overshadowed by the urban\xa0\nsprawl around them we would go down to Hollywood'}, {'start': '433.520', 'end': '439.680', 'text': 'and just drive all over the place and look at\xa0\nneighborhoods where the studios were located if'}, {'start': '439.680', 'end': '444.320', 'text': "there's anything that's characteristic about it\xa0\nit's that optimism and exuberance and the bright"}, {'start': '444.320', 'end': '449.040', 'text': "sunshine and the orange trees and the palm trees\xa0\nand things like that there's some facads here"}, {'start': '449.040', 'end': '458.160', 'text': "which which do not have any real um real equal on\xa0\nthe outside world they're inspired by the period"}, 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difference\xa0\nmickey's right ear is copper because at 55 ft"}, {'start': '500.240', 'end': '504.960', 'text': "above the ground it's the highest point at that\xa0\nend of the boulevard and therefore has to double"}, {'start': '504.960', 'end': '512.160', 'text': 'as a lightning rod without a doubt the grandest\xa0\nand most ornate building on Hollywood Boulevard is'}, {'start': '512.160', 'end': '517.360', 'text': "the Chinese Theater it's our castle at the end of\xa0\nMain Street in our case Main Street is Hollywood"}, {'start': '517.360', 'end': '525.600', 'text': 'Boulevard and the castle is a Chinese theater that\xa0\nwas built in the 19 late 1920s in Hollywood as the'}, {'start': '525.600', 'end': '531.040', 'text': 'home of the Great Movie Ride this Chinese theater\xa0\ndiffered in construction from its predecessor'}, {'start': '531.040', 'end': '540.240', 'text': 'in that its roof was built separately from the\xa0\nbuilding and hoisted into place that damn thing'}, {'start': '540.240', 'end': '546.320', 'text': 'that was a very exciting time for us as we had\xa0\nto maneuver a very large structure that it is'}, {'start': '546.320', 'end': '553.040', 'text': 'weighing 22 tons maneuver it around inside the\xa0\ncourtyard uh which was already crowded with this'}, {'start': '553.040', 'end': '559.280', 'text': 'large 150 ft crane that had to lift it into place\xa0\nit sits within a/2 in of where we expected it to'}, {'start': '559.280', 'end': '564.640', 'text': "sit and uh that's not too bad considering the size\xa0\nand weight of the thing it's not something it's"}, {'start': '564.640', 'end': '571.040', 'text': 'easily worked with architect Brock Tommen spent\xa0\n2 years studying the original Chinese theater in'}, {'start': '571.040', 'end': '577.280', 'text': 'Hollywood to ensure that the Disney MGM Studios\xa0\nversion would become a faithful reproduction we'}, {'start': '577.280', 'end': '582.800', 'text': "photographed this extensively and various artisans\xa0\nand craftsmen are are reproducing this and we'll"}, {'start': '582.800', 'end': '586.720', 'text': "we'll have the doors just like they are here\xa0\none of the pieces that we've spent a lot of"}, {'start': '586.720', 'end': '594.240', 'text': 'time and effort to reproduce are these Chinese\xa0\nuh food dogs that are actually carved out of'}, {'start': '594.240', 'end': '601.280', 'text': 'stone and we have sent photographs of these uh\xa0\nto vendors in China and they are carving some'}, {'start': '601.280', 'end': '607.280', 'text': 'to match these exactly many many man hours by\xa0\nmany many people have been spent checking into'}, {'start': '607.280', 'end': '615.120', 'text': 'the historical background of this building and\xa0\ntrying to make it as authentic as we can another'}, {'start': '615.120', 'end': '620.800', 'text': 'part of the original Chinese theater perhaps\xa0\nthe most famous part required more than cloning'}, {'start': '620.800', 'end': '627.520', 'text': "that's the fourcourt where since 1927 Hollywood's\xa0\ngreatest names have left their foot and handprints"}, {'start': '627.520', 'end': '637.360', 'text': 'the Disney MGM version bring the stars to\xa0\nFlorida and do it all over again all right'}, {'start': '637.360', 'end': '642.000', 'text': 'all right'}, {'start': '646.520', 'end': '647.520', 'text': '[Music]'}, {'start': '647.520', 'end': '654.960', 'text': 'this world famous Hollywood tradition found\xa0\nnew life at the new Chinese Theater this is'}, {'start': '654.960', 'end': '662.560', 'text': 'my street hollywood Boulevard the street of\xa0\ndreams where everybody has a shot at being a'}, {'start': '662.560', 'end': '669.920', 'text': "star now do like this oh jungle boy i searched\xa0\nthe Okay oh jungle boy I've searched the planet"}, {'start': '669.920', 'end': '674.960', 'text': 'and found you in the metropolis and looking\xa0\nat this place we really have a a living movie'}, {'start': '674.960', 'end': '681.520', 'text': "set on our hands and we have as the entrance\xa0\ncorridor Hollywood Boulevard and here it' be"}, {'start': '681.520', 'end': '686.640', 'text': 'a terrific place to take all of that what was\xa0\nso far disperate energy of little acts here'}, {'start': '686.640', 'end': '692.240', 'text': 'and there move it down onto Hollywood Boulevard\xa0\nand do what I like to call the streets program'}, {'start': '692.240', 'end': '698.000', 'text': 'with Hollywood Boulevard as their fictitious\xa0\nhome a colorful troop of 1930 street performers'}, {'start': '698.000', 'end': '705.600', 'text': 'interacts with the guests [Music] [Applause] you\xa0\nuse the guest and you let them be in the show and'}, {'start': '705.600', 'end': '709.920', 'text': "if you feed them an opportunity a line and they\xa0\ndon't say exactly what you had intended for them"}, {'start': '709.920', 'end': '715.760', 'text': "to say it doesn't matter whatever they say is\xa0\nright you know was in this cab last week errol"}, {'start': '715.760', 'end': '722.800', 'text': "Flynn was in this cab last week i don't blame\xa0\nit i think to cast these flamboyant citizens of"}, {'start': '722.800', 'end': '729.440', 'text': 'Tinsel Town the Disney Imagineers held auditions\xa0\nin major cities across the United States with the'}, {'start': '729.440', 'end': '734.000', 'text': "Streetphere program as you're working just right\xa0\noff the guests in the park even though you're"}, {'start': '734.000', 'end': '739.440', 'text': "working from a script there's a great deal to be\xa0\nsaid for the performer's personality for what my"}, {'start': '739.440', 'end': '744.240', 'text': 'uh psychologist friends call being immediate being\xa0\nright there right now with those people this is my'}, {'start': '744.240', 'end': '749.680', 'text': "first monologue I got to tell you i've never done\xa0\none of these before send in the wardrobe crocker"}, {'start': '749.680', 'end': '756.240', 'text': "should we send into wardrobe the characters\xa0\ngive life to buildings we've always done very"}, {'start': '756.240', 'end': '763.120', 'text': 'well at Disney and specifically at Imagineering\xa0\ncreating places that have a great look but now'}, {'start': '763.120', 'end': '769.280', 'text': "we give those we give those places really a life\xa0\nwell hi how are you this is I'm Sid Kena this is"}, {'start': '769.280', 'end': '775.040', 'text': 'my shop here we call it the one of a kind shop\xa0\ni still got a little anxiety cuz I want to see'}, {'start': '775.040', 'end': '778.240', 'text': "it all blown out and I know that the actors\xa0\nthough we've trained them that it takes them"}, {'start': '778.240', 'end': '782.960', 'text': 'a few days to see that the little tricks and the\xa0\nrules of doing street theater really do work to'}, {'start': '782.960', 'end': '786.880', 'text': "trust those rules cuz they're different than some\xa0\nof the things some of the rules they've played by"}, 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first to experience the'}, {'start': '833.920', 'end': '843.280', 'text': 'signature attraction at the new theme park kill\xa0\nmy sister was it you the Great Movie Ride is a'}, {'start': '843.280', 'end': '849.600', 'text': 'spectacular tour through the greatest scenes of\xa0\nsome of the most beloved American movies ever made'}, {'start': '850.480', 'end': '857.680', 'text': "let the mighty tough territory you're heading\xa0\ninto pilgrim the legendary stars action and"}, {'start': '857.680', 'end': '863.760', 'text': 'dialogue of Hollywood classics are immortalized\xa0\nthrough state-of-the-art Disney audio animatronics'}, {'start': '863.760', 'end': '871.040', 'text': "i'll get you my pretty and your little dog\xa0\ntoo but the road to this Oz was a long one"}, {'start': '871.040', 'end': '876.880', 'text': 'it started four years earlier in Los Angeles\xa0\nat the conception of the Disney MGM studios'}, {'start': '876.880', 'end': '884.960', 'text': 'the Great Movie Ride was the first um concept\xa0\nthat came out of our initial thoughts on what'}, {'start': '884.960', 'end': '890.160', 'text': 'we would want to do with this project the\xa0\nconcept led to preliminary drawings and'}, {'start': '890.160', 'end': '895.760', 'text': 'models which led to the creation of the sets\xa0\nclay sculptures led to creation of the molded'}, {'start': '895.760', 'end': '901.520', 'text': 'plastic audio animatronic figures artists\xa0\ncreated huge scenic backdrops to support the'}, {'start': '901.520', 'end': '906.880', 'text': 'illusion beyond the sets then all the scene\xa0\nelements were tested for effectiveness in Los'}, {'start': '906.880', 'end': '911.360', 'text': "Angeles by groups of company employees the first\xa0\ntram starts coming in when the music that you're"}, {'start': '911.360', 'end': '916.400', 'text': 'going to hear starts and it stops um and then the\xa0\nsecond tram is coming in and they all are here'}, {'start': '916.400', 'end': '926.440', 'text': 'when the witch appears and then as the munchkins\xa0\ntell you to get out they everybody leaves so'}, {'start': '926.440', 'end': '935.920', 'text': '[Music] finally all the great movie ride props\xa0\nfigures and backdrops were created and shipped'}, {'start': '935.920', 'end': '942.080', 'text': 'cross country to Orlando where they took their\xa0\nmeticulously pre-planned places in the 90,000 ft'}, {'start': '942.080', 'end': '948.880', 'text': 'Chinese Theater building supervision of the\xa0\ncolossal project rested on the shoulders of'}, {'start': '948.880', 'end': '955.520', 'text': "show producer Eric Jacobson i felt like a a blind\xa0\nperson feeling my way through this because there's"}, {'start': '955.520', 'end': '962.880', 'text': "so many things that I've had to act on intuition\xa0\nthrough but I've received such tremendous support"}, {'start': '962.880', 'end': '968.560', 'text': "from all the people that have have their expertise\xa0\nor these other technical areas that I don't know"}, {'start': '968.560', 'end': '977.520', 'text': "very much about that's the neat thing about this\xa0\norganization is everybody helping everybody else"}, {'start': '977.520', 'end': '983.120', 'text': 'another key player in the great movie ride\xa0\nteam was computer programmer Doug Griffith'}, {'start': '983.120', 'end': '990.080', 'text': "he's been animating the audio animatronic figures\xa0\nthrough a series of computers and controls that"}, {'start': '990.080', 'end': '997.440', 'text': "um brings them to life um and he's actually\xa0\nresponsible for being sort of the acting coach for"}, {'start': '997.440', 'end': '1008.240', 'text': 'our stars and our assorted uh cast members i did\xa0\nlook at films and try to get a feeling of of what'}, {'start': '1008.240', 'end': '1014.400', 'text': "that person's personality was pick up on little\xa0\ngestures that they did uh from there I would take"}, {'start': '1014.400', 'end': '1020.800', 'text': "that and try to do those in my program one of\xa0\nDoug's best performances was his programming of"}, {'start': '1020.800', 'end': '1027.600', 'text': 'the witch from the Wizard of Oz margaret Hamilton\xa0\nplaying the wicked witch of the west in this show'}, {'start': '1027.600', 'end': '1032.720', 'text': "is one of the most technically advanced audio\xa0\nanimatronic figures that we've built it could"}, {'start': '1032.720', 'end': '1039.600', 'text': "move much faster and stay more stable plus it's\xa0\na figure that has the most movement with lavish"}, {'start': '1039.600', 'end': '1046.160', 'text': 'attention to detail work continued on all the\xa0\nsets simultaneously hundreds of mummified extras'}, {'start': '1046.160', 'end': '1053.680', 'text': 'were positioned to haunt the corridors of the ride\xa0\nworkers refurbished the original plane from Bogey'}, {'start': '1053.680', 'end': '1061.280', 'text': "and Ingred Bergman's final scene in Casablanca and\xa0\npainted the trees in Tarzan's jungle 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