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Why Disney World is in Florida - New Vox video (Patreon)

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2023-06-09 12:04:58
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I worked pretty hard on this one (I'll have a new video next week). I think I became a Disney adult while researching this - not a person obsessed with Disney World, but one obsessed (and confused and taken aback by) Walt Disney himself.

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Why Disney World is in Florida

Disney World really is a kingdom. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Have you ever wondered why Disney World is located where it is? Or how it came to be such a massive, self-contained universe? It’s a story that involves secret land deals, special districts, and, now, a corporation and a government locked in a feud. The story of why Disney World is in Florida marries business and governmental concerns about the creation of the massive property. The engineering ranges from unique physical construction (like the creation of a lake) to unique legal construction (like the creation of a self-running government that could even build its own sewer system). Further Reading: Buying Disney’s World (https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Disneys-World-Florida-Swampland/dp/1733642056) by Aaron H. Goldberg is an authoritative work about the purchase of Disney. Drawing from corporate records, internal histories, and more, it’s a comprehensive narrative about Disney World’s creation and early years. There are a lot of great Disney fan websites out there that are obsessive in their Disney coverage. I found Jim Hill’s history of Reedy Creek to be a good intro to the topic. (https://jimhillmedia.com/history-reedy-creek-improvement-district-part-1/) Disney news is also vibrant on YouTube. Mickey Views provides good perspective on the current battles. https://www.youtube.com/@MickeyViews/videos Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free. You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/ Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts

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Sam Aronow

1. One of the reasons Mineral King didn't happen was because it was in a goddamn national park, and people weren't on board with that. 2. Despite the many contradictions that made his vision of EPCOT impossible, you have to admire Disney's boundless ambitions and his utter loathing for automobile dependence.

Sam Aronow
>>110370681

IMO Disney's retreat into the world of theme parks was a direct response to the backlash (I'm not sure that's the right word) to Fantasia. If I could ever make a movie about making movies, it would be about that period of his life, having to face the frustrating reality that he was a businessman and not simply an artist.

Sam Aronow
>>110370681

Not that I've *read.* Most of this comes from an assortment of video essays, mainly by a very good channel called Defunctland which is right up your alley (esp. his recent deep dive on the origins of the Disney Channel's ident music). The notable thing to me is that at the same time he was trying to push the boundaries of animation as a medium with Fantasia, he was also having to contend with a strike by his animators that got really ugly. What I find fascinating is that in both cases he was pushing back against the idea of himself as a businessman rather than an artist. In the case of the strike, his defeat was totally justified. But in the case of Fantasia, it's more tragic; he was bested by a culture that insisted on relegating animation to "kid stuff," so he never felt able to make art that he considered more meaningful. After a screening of To Kill a Mockingbird he famously said "that's the kind of movie I wish I could make." So during the war, he took a backseat to the movie side of things and began developing a concept for a "Mickey Mouse Park" in Burbank that gradually evolved into Disneyland.

Samuel Butler

If anyone else is fascinated by EPCOT and the bizarre utopia that it was planned to be, Defunctland has a 49 minute document about E.P.C.O.T that is truly incredible: https://youtu.be/tKYEXjMlKKQ

Brendan Henry

I have only ever been to Disney World once, as an adult, and I was incredibly obsessed. The meticulous nature of the experience is almost horrifying, and impressive. I spent 4 days, and I'd go back any second.