Restored Films Archives

Art & Linda return to the Magic Kingdom ’75 – Home Movie

Tagged: Film, Magic Kingdom, Restored Home Movie, Video

Art & Linda return for another well chronicled visit to Walt Disney World a year after their amazing 1974 and 1976 home movies. This film is no different starting with a Skyway ride. We see the Wedway Peoplemover in its earliest months of operation so it gets a fair amount…

Two Families – Magic Kingdom 1973 Restored Home Movie

Tagged: 1973, Magic Kingdom, Restored Home Movie, Video

This visit of two families to the Magic Kingdom in 1973 opens with the parking trams picking them up and they immediately head to 20K lagoon – before heading out to the monorail platform to take a ride around Seven Seas Lagoon. We see the topiary outside the Contemporary Resort…

Ford Motor Company Photoshoot film with The Eastern Winds Sailing

Tagged: Advertisements, Eastern Winds, Ford, Home Movie, Restored Film, Video

This unique film was taken by a member of the crew of a Ford Motor Company advertising agency as a “behind the scenes” glimpse of a photo session featuring Ford’s 1974 lineup and some Disney characters. The first scenes were taken alongside the wooded area in the center of the…

Art and Linda at the Glory and Pageantry of Christmas – 1976

Tagged: Art & Linda, Christmas, Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village, Restored Film, Restored Home Movie, Video

The Glory & Pageantry of Christmas was the story of the nativity featured annually at the Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village until 1994. We talk about it at length in our first Christmas episode. This footage is of the show in its first or second year.

The Magic Kingdom of 1975 – Home Movie

Tagged: 1973, 20K Leagues Under The Sea, Home Movie, Magic Kingdom, Parade, Restored Home Movie

Topiary lovers will enjoy the opening of this 1975 visit to the Magic Kingdom as the topiary that reside at the Transportation and Ticket Center start this film. The footage is a little blurry but we see a good pan of the Polynesian Village Resort and the approaching water launch…

Early days of the Polynesian & Contemporary Resorts – Home Movie

Tagged: Contemporary Resort, Film, Polynesian, Restored Film, Restored Home Movie, Video

This incredible film includes ample footage of the grounds of the Polynesian Village Resort in 1974. We open with a panoramic view from area between the Ticket & Transportation Center and the Maui (now Raratonga) longhouse. Note that the area being filmed is the present day location of the Pago…

A visit to EPCOT Center – 1983 16mm Restored Film

Tagged: EPCOT Center, EPCOT Film, Future World, Video, World Showcase

With EPCOT Center turning 35 years old yesterday we wanted to share with you a project we completed recently but decided to hold off until now for release. We were able to convert and restore the 1983 film “A Visit to EPCOT Center”. What makes this special is this restoration…

Magic Kingdom Meet & Greets – 70’s Style – Home Movie

Tagged: 1970s, 8mm, Characters, Magic Kingdom, Restored Film, Restored Home Movie, Video

We enter the Magic Kingdom greeting Pooh, Eeyore and Tigger in the entrance plaza. Town Square looks pretty empty during this early morning during Christmas time (it’s 9:45 AM). Just look how empty Main Street USA is. What a glorious way to experience Magic Kingdom! Our family poses in front…

Art & Linda are back! A Visit the Magic Kingdom in 1974

Tagged: 1974, Art & Linda, Discovery Island, Magic Kingdom, Restored Film, Restored Home Movie, Tiki Room, Tom Sawyer Island, Video

This magnum opus is a 27 minute visit (with sound) to Walt Disney World in November 1974 with a couple named Art & Linda (you may remember them from our Fort Wilderness Railroad film). This restored film is their honeymoon, just a year or so prior to their visit to…

1974 at the Magic Kingdom – Home Movie

Tagged: 1972, Fantasyland, Magic Kingdom, Main Street USA, Restored Film, Restored Home Movie, Video

This film opens with a brief glimpse of Fantasyland before capturing the VERY packed riverboat plying the Rivers of America. The colonial parade through Liberty Square is briefly glimpsed before we jump on the Skyway and glide over Fantasyland, 20K Lagoon and set down in Tomorrowland where our tuckered subjects…