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Great Disneyland Home Movie
from http://www.archive.org/details/barst...and_dream_1956
In July 1956, the five-member Barstow family of Wethersfield, Connecticut, won a free trip to newly-opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in a nationwide contest. This 30-minute amateur documentary film tells the fabulous story of their fun-filled, dream-come-true, family travel adventure, filmed on the scene at Walt Disney's "Magic Kingdom" by Robbins Barstow. Lucky Kids !!!! I'm so glad they made this film ! :cheers: ETA: The Disneyland footage starts at 19:39 - there's a lot of pre-ramble, but some good vintage shots of Universal, knotts and Hollywood in 1956 |
From what I have seen, this is the best family film documenting a trip from that era.
I had seen this one a few months ago, very cool! |
I agree, this is a terrific, and very impressive, family film. I do wonder what their actual trip was like, since so much of this is clearly staged and pre-arranged. If I had been one of those kids, I would have been thinking, "for Pete's sake, put down the camera and just let us go on the rides already!" And it's cool that they got all their neighbors and even their postman to participate. I have a hard time imagining that happening in today's world.
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Winner winner, chicken dinner!
That's was so very cool. I love how creative the parents were and how magical they made the entire trip for their kiddies. So awesome. A lot of amazing footage of DL. So nice to see that a great deal of it hasn't changed since it opened. Makes me want to go there today... Hmmm. :) |
Interesting "amateur" video. How did they get all those set up shots?
Awesome piece of history :snap: |
I want one of those TWA Bags.
So, who filmed this thing? The whole family is always pictured in the shots. |
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HA! I already found them. Not bad prices either.
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Anybody remember what the acronym TWA stood for?
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Is this really a home movie? It looks too professional.
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Sounds like they got Stan Lee as narator!
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The narrator pronounced Catalina as "Catal-eye-na".
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* sniff sniff *
I agree, something smells a bit fishy here.... The "credits" for the film list "BTA Films and Video" A google on them turns up an entry in the "Orphan Film Symposium" at the NYU Cantor film festival. A festival that focus on creative uses for orhpaned film. And this email address: RobbinsB@aol.com Robbins (listed as the narrator) is also the Director Emmeritis of the Cetacean Society International. And that lead me to this: article about this movie and his other endevors.... Quote:
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I haven't viewed the movie yet, but if it were actually semi-professionally made (and NOT made by Disney in any way), would it be any less cool to see?
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I'm happy to say that, from what I was able to find, it looks like the real deal. There was a contest, they did win it, they did take the trip in 1956. These are home movies. The narration came much later (but that's obvious from the film) and there was obviously some heavy editing done, but all in all, it's cool. |
They have footage of the family getting off the plane. There is no way it's 100% their own personal footage.
My bet is that they were filmed by Scotch or Disney as contest winners and they had their own camera (or maybe one provided by Scotch/Disney) and they were given a copy of the "official" footage. Robbins seems have have taken it all, edited it and narrated it. Nothing fishy about that at all, no different than adding some of the souvenier photos taken by Disneyland CMs to your photo album. But this there is definitely footage in there that was not shot by the family. |
That is a very cool video.
And they even have high(er) resolution versions available for download. Sweet! I'll have to download when I get home. |
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