From Out Of The Past Holland Imaginarium

Episode 2 officially begins our Year Before Disneyland with July & August, 1954.  We’ll look at 160 Acres of barren Anaheim land knowing half of it needs to become a Park – quoting Walt – “like nothing else in the world.”  And we’ll begin in Adventureland.  We’ll also spotlight Chouinard Art Institute and the July & August ’54 Theatrical Releases including Disney’s break from Distributor RKO.  AND, nothing else going on, right? Maybe it’s time for Walt & Roy to come up with the TV Show they owe ABC.  For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast!  Thanks for listening …

Episode 1 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland is our Prologue to July 1954, getting you both grounded in the scene & its players AND getting you comfortable with just how much happened at Disney at the same time … on a regular basis.  Plus the impetuses of 'Lady And The Tramp,' '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,' AND Disneyland go back longer than most people realize.  And how many people realize just how integral ABC – yep, the TV Network – was to making Disneyland happen?  We’ll get into all of it and more as we Begin the Countdown to Park Opening.  For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast!  Thanks for listening …

When Tron The Attraction opened in Walt Disney World in 2023, there were comments such as, “It took FIVE YEARS to build!  Disneyland took ONE!”  And of course there are asterisks to that but it got us thinking about The Year Before Disneyland:  July 1954 to July 1955.  Yes, Disneyland The Park went from breaking ground to opening.  But look at what ELSE happened IN THAT SAME TIME: Disney parted with RKO and began distributing their own Pictures;  The Disneyland Hotel was pitched, sold, built, ALMOST completed;  Disneyland The Show – Disney’s 1st Regular TV Series – Premiered;  20,000 Leagues Under The Sea premiered;  there was the Davy Crockett Phenomenon;  AND Lady And The Tramp premiered.  ALL these on TOP of the regular Theatrical Animated & Live-Action Product. In just that Year. And I knew we had OUR “Once Upon A Time.”



Over this season’s Ten Episodes – Ten Weeks – we’re going to cover that Year Before Disneyland – a Prologue-To and then July 1954 to July 1955 – spotlighting the Key Events, Key People involved (including several Women whose work you sure know even if you don’t yet know their names), and you bet we’ll chat the Stories Beside The Story you know I love to share.



We hope you’ll join us for From Out Of The Past, the Podcast from Holland Imaginarium. Season 2:  The Year Before Disneyland. Premiering May 28th, 2024.

Episode 10 – The Finale – of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman rounds out The Story from 2006 to 2018, looking at a lost Non Fiction Book, a Mark Wahlberg-starrer, writing with The Sports Guy Bill Simmons, Goldman’s return to Broadway, his only Biography, losing a Daughter, and the world losing William Goldman.  And when the chronology is through?  We’ll of course talk his Legacy that continues – and likely will for years to come – to entertain, inform, and, yes, inspire. 



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'Shooter'

'The Book Of Basketball'

'Misery' (Play)

⁠⁠⁠'William Goldman'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'The Craft Of The Screenwriter'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'William Goldman: The Reluctant Storyteller'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'Shangri-La'⁠⁠⁠

'The Moving Target'



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Episode 9 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman pauses the chronology to spotlight his two Writing-On-Writing, On-Hollywood, KINDA-Autobiographies:  1983’s ‘Adventures In The Screen Trade’ and 2000’s ‘Which Lie Did I Tell?’  Where he takes us through his work, others’ work, even presents new work for peers to critique … and you bet we discuss his infamous “Nobody Knows Anything.”  But, then, remember what Orson Welles said about Biographies? 



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'Adventures In The Screen Trade'

'Which Lie Did I Tell?'

⁠⁠⁠'William Goldman'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'The Craft Of The Screenwriter'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'William Goldman: The Reluctant Storyteller'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'Shangri-La'⁠⁠⁠



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Episode 8 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman gets into ‘Absolute Power’ with Clint Eastwood and our chatting Adaptations in general.  We’ll nod Brother James’ passing, chat Goldman’s last screenplays – ‘The General’s Daughter,’ ‘Hearts In Atlantis,’ and ‘Dreamcatcher’ – and his last books:  ‘The Big Picture’ and ‘Which Lie Did I Tell?’  Then we’ll round-out with his non-Produced ‘Shazam’ Script AND ask, “Where do you leave Jimmy Stewart?”



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'Absolute Power'

'The General's Daughter'

'Mission Impossible II'

'5 Screenplays' (Goldman Script Collection)

'4 Screenplays' (Goldman Script Collection)

'The Big Picture'

'Which Lie Did I Tell?'

'Hearts In Atlantis'

'Dreamcatcher'

'Dreamcatcher: The Shooting Script'

⁠⁠'William Goldman'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'The Craft Of The Screenwriter'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'William Goldman: The Reluctant Storyteller'⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠'Shangri-La'⁠⁠⁠



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