Yay for slit-scan photography. I don't think Kubrick and the VFX artists who spearheaded the technique on "2001" would have imagined just how influential it would eventually become! Still looks impressive today.
It's ironic that after all these years Cinderella's Castle (and even the Epcot Geodesic Dome) are normally used for most Disney intro's. Bigger is better is suppose.
It seems like they went through a lot of intros back in the 80s, either that or they were just custom for each network. Only thing I know is that all of 'em were post-83 and pimping Epcot hard.
Another thing is that his brother, who was 90 years old, told me that I was going to let out the secret because his little brother was going to die from his smoking habit anyway.
His big brother told me to remind you that Walt Disney was a man who gave money to Nazis that escaped from justice after the Holocaust. I feel sorry for all the gay Jewish employees that worked at Disney. I know that they do bad things but they don't deserve to be betrayed LIKE THAT!
I met a guy that said that he worked for Disney in the 80's.
He gave me $150 so that I could keep the secret that he
was 45 years old when he quit working for Disney in 1983 and that he didn't have any straight sex until he was 67 years old.
He said that he was already 81 years old and going to die soon. I took his money and I gave it to UNICEF. Yet now I've let out his secret right here and now. I've already given stuff my my local library as well anyway. Who cares about UNICEF!
Memories! Maybe they should use the intro music over the Walt Disney Pictures new logo. That's a brilliant idea! I put that up on the "Disney Logo Spoof Collection" on Ning if you want to see it!
holy fuck, this is nostalgic. I just uploaded a part of this intro TODAY because I thought it was rare. But here it is, the whole thing. damn this good stuff...
Agreed. It's a terrific shot how we're transported from the magic of the Magic Kingdom to the amazingly futuristic EPCOT Center. Gotta love and miss those days when EPCOT was touted as the future.
No need to be sorry, and I wasn't alive when it opened it either. If I came across as a jerk, I apologize. I misread the tone of your comment about the 80 page Disney essay.
Yes, when the camera goes through the castle and the wire-frame of the sphere comes into the shot, that is the entrance to Epcot, the park's icon, and it's most defining feature.
The sphere is known as Spaceship Earth. It's 18 stories high and features a ride inside which details the story of human communication (or it used to anyways) through time, and where it may one day take us.
yup roast chicken every sunday with the dread of school on monday orange and brown carpet on the floor and the white picket fence in the back yard as I chased the dog all over the house. Memories! Took me 20 years after this commercial but I made it to disneyland.
Very old. I vvonder hovv many other people still have old stuff like this? Plenty, as there are quite a fevv here on youtube. WOW!! Thanks 4 the upload.
This opening was created for the 1981-83 CBS run of the Disney anthology, when it was titled simply "Walt Disney". This was the nadir of the anthology's network run - the studio was in terrible shape, so there were no new movies to run, and the new, made-for-TV material consisted mostly of unsold pilots.
I searched exactly for this clip, because it is some kind of childhood memory, german television used the same clip as an intro for disney films in the 80's when I was a kid, so thx for it and please feel free to upload it in better quality ;-)
This was recorded in Canada in 1984, lest time I checked Canada is NTSC ;).
I'm in Portugal now, but I have a NTSC vcr from Canada to be able to watch these tapes. I'm not sure, but maybe UK converted this logo from NTSC source. If you listen carefuly this pitch is lower than PAL's version I'm assuming 23.976fps->25fps (or the other way around, which ever has done this first)
Yay for slit-scan photography. I don't think Kubrick and the VFX artists who spearheaded the technique on "2001" would have imagined just how influential it would eventually become! Still looks impressive today.
URWLcentral 2 months ago
I think I saw that on The Disney Channel when I was very young and not even 10 yet. That was very long time ago and now I'm in my 20's.
AntiVenom36 5 months ago
It's ironic that after all these years Cinderella's Castle (and even the Epcot Geodesic Dome) are normally used for most Disney intro's. Bigger is better is suppose.
kamsavart 5 months ago
So, what comes after this on your tape? ;)
eveningtsar 10 months ago
@eveningtsar Donald Duck's 50th anniversary...
t0nito 10 months ago 2
pause at 0:14
Evil Duck
mariobrasil9 1 year ago
Ohhh, how I remember this ;)
Zeeta55 1 year ago
Total Dallas-style music. Who shot Scrooge McDuck? xD
maatiuu 1 year ago
When I see things like this I just wanna rush to nearest Disney Studio and ask to animate for them as in drawing.
Ahturos 1 year ago
I was born in 1983 how can I remember seeing this?
itsaguinness 1 year ago
That is the first Disney Intro I remember from my childhood in the 1980s
sl97aq 1 year ago
did ELO record the music?? haha
monosound81 2 years ago
It seems like they went through a lot of intros back in the 80s, either that or they were just custom for each network. Only thing I know is that all of 'em were post-83 and pimping Epcot hard.
Palmerholic 2 years ago
totally funk-a-delic music lol :)
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this Disney subliminal gave me a woody
kokeklasick 2 years ago
Another thing is that his brother, who was 90 years old, told me that I was going to let out the secret because his little brother was going to die from his smoking habit anyway.
His big brother told me to remind you that Walt Disney was a man who gave money to Nazis that escaped from justice after the Holocaust. I feel sorry for all the gay Jewish employees that worked at Disney. I know that they do bad things but they don't deserve to be betrayed LIKE THAT!
riksux 2 years ago
I met a guy that said that he worked for Disney in the 80's.
He gave me $150 so that I could keep the secret that he
was 45 years old when he quit working for Disney in 1983 and that he didn't have any straight sex until he was 67 years old.
He said that he was already 81 years old and going to die soon. I took his money and I gave it to UNICEF. Yet now I've let out his secret right here and now. I've already given stuff my my local library as well anyway. Who cares about UNICEF!
riksux 2 years ago
name of the dude with ''flying car''??
turtoise8 2 years ago 2
oh so disco-sounding :)
inoldsiamsir 3 years ago
Wow, I haven't seen this since I was 3 or 4.
Its not as good as the Magical World of Disney theme song though.
wishingstar22 3 years ago
HOLY CRAP!!! I remember that! Cool!
jrc99us 3 years ago
Memories! Maybe they should use the intro music over the Walt Disney Pictures new logo. That's a brilliant idea! I put that up on the "Disney Logo Spoof Collection" on Ning if you want to see it!
HomeoftheGoodGuys 3 years ago
holy fuck, this is nostalgic. I just uploaded a part of this intro TODAY because I thought it was rare. But here it is, the whole thing. damn this good stuff...
phille22 3 years ago
Gotta love scanimation!
bigladiesman 3 years ago
Dude love the Tron-ish Spaceship Earth... at least it looks like Spaceship Earth.... ^_^
disneyjedi1 3 years ago
that's rad ^___^
phille22 3 years ago
Agreed. It's a terrific shot how we're transported from the magic of the Magic Kingdom to the amazingly futuristic EPCOT Center. Gotta love and miss those days when EPCOT was touted as the future.
Horizons1 3 years ago 2
what's epcot?
phille22 2 years ago
Seriously?
Horizons1 2 years ago
or else, I wouldn't ask, fool. what do I look like? someone who has made a 80 page essay of Disney?
phille22 2 years ago
No, you sound like someone who has lived under a kitchen sink for most of his life.
Epcot is a theme park located in Florida at the Walt Disney World Resort. It was the resort's second theme-park and opened in 1982.
Horizons1 2 years ago 2
Okay, sorry for not living at the time when it opened, and sorry for not living in america
phille22 2 years ago
No need to be sorry, and I wasn't alive when it opened it either. If I came across as a jerk, I apologize. I misread the tone of your comment about the 80 page Disney essay.
Horizons1 2 years ago
nah, it's okay. so where's this eptoc reference? the techno globe in the end?
phille22 2 years ago
Yes, when the camera goes through the castle and the wire-frame of the sphere comes into the shot, that is the entrance to Epcot, the park's icon, and it's most defining feature.
The sphere is known as Spaceship Earth. It's 18 stories high and features a ride inside which details the story of human communication (or it used to anyways) through time, and where it may one day take us.
Horizons1 2 years ago
wow. sounds amazing. it always was my favorite part of the intro... so surreal and dreamy. typical 80's. thanks
phille22 2 years ago
It is pretty awesome. Back in the early
90s it was also really amazing. It was a place that dealt with science and the real world through so many mediums. Epcot Center was the shiz-bizz.
Horizons1 2 years ago
and how the hell we gonna know what you look like? its an internet post
mroy88 2 years ago
Epcot is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, FL.
pdx5004 2 years ago
I remember this!!!
lfrage 4 years ago
yup roast chicken every sunday with the dread of school on monday orange and brown carpet on the floor and the white picket fence in the back yard as I chased the dog all over the house. Memories! Took me 20 years after this commercial but I made it to disneyland.
garycalgary 4 years ago
Very old. I vvonder hovv many other people still have old stuff like this? Plenty, as there are quite a fevv here on youtube. WOW!! Thanks 4 the upload.
MAVENdeNYC 4 years ago 2
This opening was created for the 1981-83 CBS run of the Disney anthology, when it was titled simply "Walt Disney". This was the nadir of the anthology's network run - the studio was in terrible shape, so there were no new movies to run, and the new, made-for-TV material consisted mostly of unsold pilots.
kbirdusa 4 years ago 5
Great opening, too bad the show was @ the end of its rope by then.
WhatsAYak 3 years ago
Walt Disney Presents? That intro was 1984 here in Canada if I'm not mistaken because I would be 8 years old when this was on.
CelesteK 4 years ago
weird, but that is why i love the internet.
I searched exactly for this clip, because it is some kind of childhood memory, german television used the same clip as an intro for disney films in the 80's when I was a kid, so thx for it and please feel free to upload it in better quality ;-)
flashkalav 4 years ago 2
indeed. I'm grown up with this intro to Robin Hood =) but only parts of it,
phille22 3 years ago
How did this logo manage to be converted into NTSC?
jonghyunchung 4 years ago
What do you mean? It was brodcasted originaly in NTSC and video taped on a NTSC vcr :P
t0nito 4 years ago
This is a UK logo, and UK means PAL.
jonghyunchung 4 years ago
This was recorded in Canada in 1984, lest time I checked Canada is NTSC ;).
I'm in Portugal now, but I have a NTSC vcr from Canada to be able to watch these tapes. I'm not sure, but maybe UK converted this logo from NTSC source. If you listen carefuly this pitch is lower than PAL's version I'm assuming 23.976fps->25fps (or the other way around, which ever has done this first)
t0nito 4 years ago 4
It was on 1984, I was only 4 years old, believe it or not, I remember the day my dad taped this!
t0nito 4 years ago
@t0nito me too!
Zeeta55 1 year ago
It's beautiful.... and I think it shows a timeline of Walt Disney from 1927 I think.
robosapiencam 4 years ago
Scariest...
rdelgadoborras 4 years ago
HOLY SHIT NEON D:
Brillemeister 5 years ago
Kinda puts me in mind of the stargate sequence in 2001 (1968).
JerryCornelius2006 4 years ago
I'll try uploading this video with better quality soon as my sister wants me to record donald's 50th anniversary to dvd for her children :D
t0nito 5 years ago
hey t0nito? just a question. wasn't Donald Duck's 50th anniversary in 1984, or 1980, I can't remember.
SearsRoebuckandCo 4 years ago
You're very welcome :D
t0nito 5 years ago
thanks! its just what i was looking for.
akhenaten1881 5 years ago