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Exclusive Rare Video! ‘Operation Disney’Behind The Scenes With ABC

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Exclusive Rare Video! ‘Operation Disney’

Behind The Scenes With ABC On Disneyland’s Opening Day

First, please share this…your friends will appreciate it as Eyes Of A Generation is the only place you can see this rare footage. This was shot by ABC over the three days prior to the Sunday, July 17, 1955 grand opening of Disneyland. This footage was not broadcast at the time, but may have been shown if ABC and Disney did a rebroadcast of the celebration at an anniversary. I think this it was done as an in-house project to show to ABC shareholders, sponsors and affiliate stations, as well as to Disney executives. Remember, ABC had a partial ownership of Disneyland. This was cut to fit in front of the live broadcast footage that was captured via Kinescope.

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14 responses to “Exclusive Rare Video! ‘Operation Disney’Behind The Scenes With ABC”

  1. Toni Murphy

    Amazing footage…must find a way to save it for easy access.

  2. Mike Bankhead

    Please don’t let Meryl Streep see this! Oh the humanity!

  3. Steve Silvertooth

    you can do this now with one remote truck a a lot of fiber

  4. Sullivan James

    Oh wow. What a great insight to the early days of live TV!

  5. Art Hackett

    So how come they didn’t use remote trucks?

  6. Ryan Balton

    Is this video available off Facebook on a site like YouTube to share on other platforms like Twitter and Pinterest?

  7. David Stephan

    WOW !! this was great. Thank you !

  8. Mike Clark

    Temperatures that day were in the 90’s and many of the cameramen were without hats or umbrellas. How they and the equipment got through the telecast is quite a Disney miracle.

  9. Pat Bryant

    I want to share this with some colleagues who don’t do Facebook. Is there a direct link to this video?

  10. John Roger Bolin

    It is on a DVD-I found it years ago at Costco.

  11. Bob Huntsman

    My dad (technical director of the show) at 5:20 – 6:00.

  12. Curtis R Anderson

    Boy, OSHA won’t let folks get away with lifting camera operators on forklifts these days!

  13. Tom Griggs

    Narrated by “John Fell”?? Sure sounds like Paul Frees to me! And with Frees’ particularly close association with Disney … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frees

  14. Albert J. McGilvray

    I would skip a mortgage payment if ABC/Disney EVER offered that opening day broadcast on DVD.

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