Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world / Richard...
Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world / Richard...
Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world / Richard Snow.
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Publisher
New York : Scribner, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2020/3230
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 408 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Sunday, July 17, 1955, 4 a.m. -- How I got to Disneyland -- A horrible name for a mouse -- The Railroad Fair -- The Lilly Belle -- World's Fairs, Coney Island, and the decline of the amusement park -- Dwarf Land -- Getting started -- Buzz and Woody -- Orange County -- Buying on the sly -- Roy -- Lik...
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Publisher
New York : Scribner, 2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
"By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides, one from which all tawdriness had been purged. He achieve...
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Disney's land : Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world / Richard Snow.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-385) and index.
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©2019
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G 2020/3230
Record Identifier
74VKamq0JkMg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKamq0JkMg
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ISBN
1501190814 (softcover)
9781501190803 (hardcover)
1501190806 (hardcover)
9781501190810 (softcover)
DDC
791.06879496
MMS ID
991024332318202626
