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Celebrating Classic Hollywood (and Then Some) with A Guy in The Trenches Season 1: William Goldman Season 2: The Year Before Disneyland

AUG 12

210 Tempus Fugit

Episode 10 -- The Finale -- of The Year Before Disneyland wraps in July, 1955. We begin at The Disneyland Hotel and why it NOT opening with The Park was a Blessing. Then it’s back to TV with the 1st new ‘Disneyland’ The Show Ep since March: The Park’s “Pre-Opening Report!” Then it’s Walt & Lillian’s 30th Wedding Anniversary and (we hope) The Mark Twain’s Maiden Voyage. THEN, in the Week before Park Opening? Walt goes to The Hollywood Bowl, Disneyland gets a Freeway Offramp & an Address, while ABC preps the Biggest Live Event in TV History. Not a big enough finish for you? We’ll also chat what was in Fantasyland Opening Day! Including Steve Martin. For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast! Thanks for listening ...

1h 40m
JUL 23

209 The Brand Branded

Episode 9 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with June, 1955 where we begin in Theatres with two Feature Releases and one Short including the Hit Now-Classic ‘Lady And The Tramp’ (including spotlights on a couple favorite Imagineers). Then 29 Big Things get piled on Disney: The Unions. And we round out this week’s chat with (hopefully) filling The Rivers Of America and getting The Disneyland Railroad to run LESS than properly … including a ride around The Park with Walt … and One Special Fan. For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast! Thanks for listening …

1h 6m
JUL 17

208 Building A Cathedral

Episode 8 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with May, 1955 where we begin at the beginning … of the PARK, that is: Main Street U.S.A. Then we’ll tram over to The Disneyland Hotel for its Gas Station and some ‘Gourmet’ Food. Then it’s back to Theatres for the ‘Davy Crockett’ Feature AND we’ll chat that Genuine Phenomenon. And we’ll round out this week with Van Arsdale France & Dick Nunis presenting their Castmember Orientation Program … and relishing in their little part of Old Anaheim that would soon be a thing of memory. For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us @fromoutofthepastpodcast! Thanks for listening …

1h 29m
JUL 9

207 One Foot In The Past, One Foot In The Future

Episode 7 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with March & April, 1955 where we return to The Disneyland Hotel for its Groundbreaking and how Guests got-around outside the Park. Then we’re back in Theatres with the Animated Short ‘Contrasts In Rhythm’ AND back on TV with the 2 Eps before we go to Repeats until right before Park Opening, including the seminal ‘Man In Space.’ Then we’ll introduce 2 Key People in the success of the Park EXPERIENCE: Ruth Shellhorn & Van Arsdale France. And we’ll close-out with Roy & Admiral Joe Fowler touring Investors; and hear from Walt what HE thinks of all the Chaos around them. For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast! Thanks for listening …

1h 6m
JUL 2

206 "Tomorrowland?" "Arrr."

Episode 6 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with January & February, 1955 where we begin with Disney’s Float in The Rose Parade. Then it’s EIGHT ‘Disneyland’ TV Show Eps including where Pirate Speak comes from, relooking at ’20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,’ more ‘Davy Crockett,’ a Park Progress Report, and ‘Lady And The Tramp’ with Ms. Peggy Lee. Then it’s a Donald Duck Short, Bob Gurr getting Autopia driving (do you remember all its Tracks?), AND we’ll look at that little place that didn’t have to make Opening Day then suddenly HAD to make Opening Day: Tomorrowland. For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast! Thanks for listening …

1h 30m
JUN 25

205 Leagues

Episode 5 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with December, 1954. We begin with the FIVE ‘Disneyland’ TV Show Episodes that month (including 3 Biggies), chat Disney’s Sylvania Win, Walt being on the Cover of ‘Time,’ and the Birth of ‘The Mickey Mouse Club.’ Then we look at Bob Gurr’s officially starting at WED, and Walt living up to his own Perfect Creationism. And we round out 1954 in The Theatre with a Donald Duck Bio, his ‘Grand Canyonscope’ Short, and the Premiere of the Feature that Short premiered WITH – both in CinemaScope! – ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.’ For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast! Thanks for listening …

1h 14m
JUN 18

204 Ubbe, Gurr, Sponsors, & A Motor Hotel

Episode 4 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with November, 1954. We’ll chat Bios on Ub Iwerks & Bob Gurr; look at ‘The Flying Squirrel’ in Theatres and ‘Alice In Wonderland,’ ‘True Life Adventures,’ Donald Duck, & ‘So Dear To My Heart’ on TV; C.V. Wood – you remember Woody – going after Sponsors and beginning his own exit; and we’ll close out this week with the Official Beginning of The Disneyland Hotel (that Wrather wanted to open WITH The Park). Would it? COULD it? After all, Jack & Bonita wanted it to be as great AS The Park. But, then, would even The PARK live up to Walt’s & Roy’s dreams? For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast! Thanks for listening …

58 min
JUN 11

203 Roy, Nancy Drew, Uncle Walt, & Joe's Ditch

Episode 3 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with September & October, 1954. We’ll chat Bios on Roy Disney, Bonita Granville, and Jack Wrather; those latter two KEY in The Disneyland Hotel. Then we’re back in Theatres with the Animated Short Social Lion and on TV with the Premiere of the Disneyland TV Show. And we’ll close out this week in Frontierland; what little was there by October, 1954 and – continuing our Land Tours – what would be there Opening Day. And THAT’S now less than nine months away. For more info, or sharing YOUR questions & comments, please find us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast! Thanks for listening …

1h 16m

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12/08/2023

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Celebrating Classic Hollywood (and Then Some) with A Guy in The Trenches Season 1: William Goldman Season 2: The Year Before Disneyland

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