Walt Disney's EPCOT Center: Creating the New World of Tomorrow [VINTAGE 1982] [SPECIAL EDITION] [FIRST EDITION]
Language: English
Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1982
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
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Fine condition large (11 inches tall) color photographic boards. Includes Introduction by Martin A. Sklar, Vice President Creative Development, WED Enterprises, November 20, 1981; and Dedication. Profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and color photographs. Copyright page states: "Special Edition". Contents include: 1) Introduction; 2) FUTURE WORLD: Spaceship Earth, Earth Station, Universe of Energy, Horizons, World of Motion, Journey into Imagination, The Land, The Living Seas, CommuniCore; 2) WORLD SHOWCASE: The American Adventure, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, China, United Kingdom, Africa, Mexico. Also includes an August 14 -20, 2000 Epcot GUIDEMAP. "Early in 1964, Walt Disney gathered a small group at WED (an acronym of Walter Elias Disney) Enterprises and began to visualize early concepts for Walt Disney World, including Epcot: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. During the development of. Epcot Center, many media people, including Walter Cronkite. visited WED. When, in July 1975, Walt Disney Productions announced it was moving forward with plans for Epcot, to some it was a bolt of lightning to match the darting streaks that dance across the midsummer Florida landscape. The area had changed dramatically since 1967, when Walt Disney's film about Epcot was first shown to the State of Florida. No longer was the 27,400-acre Walt Disney World site - twice the size of Manhattan Island - virgin land with literally no amenities on its forty-three square miles. There was now the whole Walt Disney World infrastructure that had been built in the intervening years: forty-three miles of winding drainage canals equipped with innovative flood control gates to maintain the flow and level of water; nine acres of underground corridors called "utilitdors," a "city beneath a kingdom" that serves as an urban basement, providing vital operations and services, sewers, pipes, calbes, worlships, garbage disposal - that keep the community aboveground running smoothly; revolutionary technical innovations such as the modular construction of hotel rooms, which are built on the ground and hoisted into place by crane; America's first all-electronic telephone system; the introduction in the United States of the Sedish AVAC trash disposal system, in which trash is funneled underground in pneumatic tubes to a central collection point; and many more forward-looking systems that will move urban technology into the twenty-first century. What was lacking was a public focus for new ideas and concepts, a "center" for the communication of new possibilities for the future - directly to the public. To answer this need, we are developing Epcot Center: a permanent world's fair of imagination, discovery, education, and exploration that combines the Disney entertainment and communications skills with the knowledge and predictions for the future. Our goal is to inspire the visitors who come here. The pages that follow will describe in detail how each of the pavilions in Future World and in World Showcase evolved. As you read, and as you visit Epcot Center, remember that at our opening in October 1982 we are just getting started - there's much more to come! - Martin A. Sklar, VP Creative Development WED Enterprises, November 20, 1981" - excerpt from the Introduction. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Walt Disney's EPCOT Center: Creating the New World of Tomorrow [VINTAGE 1982] [SPECIAL EDITION] [FIRST EDITION]
- Author
- Beard, Richard R.; Frankel, Lory (editor); Geis, Darlene (project director)
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York
- Publication year
- 1982
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Luykx, Dirk (designer)
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
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