July 17, 1955…Disneyland Opens: Behind The Scenes ABC Video

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July 17, 1955…Disneyland Opens: Behind The Scenes Video

61 years ago today, what was then television’s largest remote took place at the Disneyland Grand Opening. Here is the ultra rare, 14 minute, behind the scenes film produced by ABC to commemorate the massive 29 camera, live broadcast.

This video ends with the narrator saying “And here’s the show”. At this link is the full 90 minutes program, hosted by Art Linkletter, Walt Disney and many more famous faces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuzrZET-3Ew

Since this embedded video is not available on the internet anywhere but here, please share this so your friends can see it. Enjoy! -Bobby Ellerbee

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9 Comments

  1. Debbie S Webb July 17, 2016

    Wow!! This was amazing!! I love this time period when America was good and people wanted to be good!! Thanks for sharing! What a day this was for Walt Disney!!

  2. Luanne D. Smith July 17, 2016

    I was just 3 years old then!

  3. John Westenberger July 17, 2014

    Fascinating Video…this answers many of the questions we always had on how they did that show.

  4. Lyneé Charisse July 17, 2014

    WOW! thank you for sharing!

  5. Adam Morgan July 17, 2014

    Had to be an utter nightmare to pull this off back then. The cables everywhere, coordinating all the locations. Seems to have gone pretty smoothly fro. A viewer perspective.

  6. Bob Huntsman July 17, 2014

    My dad at 5:20.

  7. Jean Poffel July 17, 2014

    Fascinating!

  8. George Turner July 17, 2014

    .

  9. David Fell July 17, 2014

    And who is this John Fell that narrated? Am I related? Probably not.