(1998/06) DLR: GM w/Mr. Lincoln: The Walt Disney Story film

Before the 50th film, before the abomination that was the previous Mr. Lincoln show, there was the original Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln at the Disneyland Opera House. This clip was part of the pre-show in the theatre lobby. Among other things, it had exhibits on Disneyland history, the history of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, Walt Disney's TWO offices, and another pre-show film, "Walt Disney: Naturalist". The video was shot with a Hi8 camcorder and is from 1998 so forgive the quality. The compression was the best I could get unfortunately.

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• walt
• disney
• story
• great
• moments
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• lincoln
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• attraction

[thesagebrushkid]

I remember this attraction at the Magic Kingdom. They took it out at some point. Thanks for posting it

[CSUFSteve]

This show was a little different than Magic Kingdom's. That show was much longer and mostly narrated by Walt himself with some old Disney family home video footage thrown in. It's unfortunate they took it out, and there are rumors ours might be next to go. Hopefully they're just rumors! Incidentally, you can buy the Magic Kingdom version on DVD.

[sadalite]

I have looked and looked on the internet for actual video of Mr. Lincoln (The original) because its amazing to me that audio animatronics were around in 1964(!!) Thanks for posting this at least, I just wish I could see how Mr. Lincoln looked.

[CSUFSteve]

who knows- i may just post the rest eventually. obviously it won't be the world's fair version, haha, but it'll be the 1998 version- which itself is a little different than the version that originally opened at Disneyland.

[blackwingy]

Thanks so much for posting this. Been a long time...as I recall, there was a previous narrator(I don't think it was Frees but I could be wrong)who did essentially exactly the same narration-this one here is a later, possibly 90s era one.The first half of the film-- about Walt--was the same, but the old narrator was more stentorian, with saying "The art of the sculptor, the skills of the animator," [etc] bring YOU "Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln!" It was pretty great as a buildup!

[thesagebrushkid]

Do you know where I can get a copy and what it is called? I would most appreciate it. I have a love of all things of the parks in the early days.