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.

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.

HA! I already found them. Not bad prices either.

Anybody remember what the acronym TWA stood for?

I suspect Disney....

Reminds me of the rude joke...


:rolleyes: