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Cleansing the Past, Selling the Future: Disney’s Corporate Exhibits at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair
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Disney, 29
But that’s getting far ahead of our story. Right now we’re leaving the world of today behind. So if your imagination is ready, here we go.
Source: © Ford Times, Vol. 58 No. 5, May 1965
We’re traveling backwards in time. Many millions of years in fact. Back to a day when giant creatures thundered over the land and soared like gliders across the sky. You’re probably familiar with some of their names: Allosaurus. Edopasaurus. Pterodactyl. Not exactly the kind of pets you would keep around the house. In fact, most of them were kind of ... well, kind of ... "supercalifragilisticexpialidotious" and that’s as big as they come! Later, near the end of the ride:
Thousands of years raced by as man applied the wheel to explore the world. And then he discovered new ways to make the wheel work for him. There were water wheels for generating power and iron wheels to span the continent. Wheels within wheels for industry's machines. Wheels for the automobile and the airplane. And just as the first wheel freed man from his cave, today they have carried us to the beginning of still another new age.
And now The Magic Skyway becomes a highway in the sky carrying you across the boundless night and out into time and space.
We’ve come a long way in our journey with man. And here were are, on the threshold of tomorrow. Man’s achievements in science and industry have carried us here. And like the blast-off of a space vehicle for the moon and beyond, man’s achievements have challenged our hopes and rocketed our dreams beyond the horizon.
Perhaps, someday, we’ll be riding rocketships like those flashing overhead to anywhere in space. Perhaps, someday, we will drive jet-powered vehicles over weather-controlled highways in the sky like the spiraling tubes around you.
But all such dreams begin in the minds of men. Men of vision, faith and imagination. Men of science and industry, education and the arts. As we have seen along The Magic Skyway man is always on the move, searching and dreaming beyond the horizons of today and bringing the promise of tomorrow ever closer to reality.
Now our journey is almost at an end. On behalf of your host, Ford Motor Company, and the creative staff of the Walt Disney Studio who dreamed up this adventure, I hope you have enjoyed your trip on The Magic Skyway. Thanks for joining us!
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Disney, 29
But that’s getting far ahead of our story. Right now we’re leaving the world of today behind. So if
your imagination is ready, here we go.
Source: © Ford Times, Vol. 58 No. 5, May 1965
We’re traveling backwards in time. Many millions of years in fact. Back to a day when giant
creatures thundered over the land and soared like gliders across the sky. You’re probably familiar
with some of their names: Allosaurus. Edopasaurus. Pterodactyl. Not exactly the kind of pets you
would keep around the house. In fact, most of them were kind of ... well, kind of ...
"supercalifragilisticexpialidotious" and that’s as big as they come!
Later, near the end of the ride:
Thousands of years raced by as man applied the wheel to explore the world. And then he
discovered new ways to make the wheel work for him. There were water wheels for
generating power and iron wheels to span the continent. Wheels within wheels for
industry's machines. Wheels for the automobile and the airplane. And just as the first
wheel freed man from his cave, today they have carried us to the beginning of still
another new age.
And now The Magic Skyway becomes a highway in the sky carrying you across the boundless
night and out into time and space.
We’ve come a long way in our journey with man. And here were are, on the threshold of
tomorrow. Man’s achievements in science and industry have carried us here. And like the blast-
off of a space vehicle for the moon and beyond, man’s achievements have challenged our hopes
and rocketed our dreams beyond the horizon.
Perhaps, someday, we’ll be riding rocketships like those flashing overhead to anywhere in space.
Perhaps, someday, we will drive jet-powered vehicles over weather-controlled highways in the
sky like the spiraling tubes around you.
But all such dreams begin in the minds of men. Men of vision, faith and imagination. Men of
science and industry, education and the arts. As we have seen along The Magic Skyway man is
always on the move, searching and dreaming beyond the horizons of today and bringing the
promise of tomorrow ever closer to reality.
Now our journey is almost at an end. On behalf of your host, Ford Motor Company, and
the creative staff of the Walt Disney Studio who dreamed up this adventure, I hope you
have enjoyed your trip on The Magic Skyway. Thanks for joining us!
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