Exclusive Rare Video! ‘Operation Disney’Behind The Scenes With ABC
Exclusive Rare Video! ‘Operation Disney’
Behind The Scenes With ABC On Disneyland’s Opening Day
First, please share this…your friends will appreciate it as Eyes Of A Generation is the only place you can see this rare footage. This was shot by ABC over the three days prior to the Sunday, July 17, 1955 grand opening of Disneyland. This footage was not broadcast at the time, but may have been shown if ABC and Disney did a rebroadcast of the celebration at an anniversary. I think this it was done as an in-house project to show to ABC shareholders, sponsors and affiliate stations, as well as to Disney executives. Remember, ABC had a partial ownership of Disneyland. This was cut to fit in front of the live broadcast footage that was captured via Kinescope.
Amazing footage…must find a way to save it for easy access.
Please don’t let Meryl Streep see this! Oh the humanity!
you can do this now with one remote truck a a lot of fiber
Oh wow. What a great insight to the early days of live TV!
So how come they didn’t use remote trucks?
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WOW !! this was great. Thank you !
Temperatures that day were in the 90’s and many of the cameramen were without hats or umbrellas. How they and the equipment got through the telecast is quite a Disney miracle.
I want to share this with some colleagues who don’t do Facebook. Is there a direct link to this video?
It is on a DVD-I found it years ago at Costco.
My dad (technical director of the show) at 5:20 – 6:00.
Boy, OSHA won’t let folks get away with lifting camera operators on forklifts these days!
Narrated by “John Fell”?? Sure sounds like Paul Frees to me! And with Frees’ particularly close association with Disney … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frees
I would skip a mortgage payment if ABC/Disney EVER offered that opening day broadcast on DVD.