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What 16mm WDW Films are we raising money to restore? All is revealed

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If you’ve been following us, you know that we are working on a special project to restore two 16mm WDW films. These are not home movies, but professional productions that we would like to restore and share with the world. Together they have a runtime of over one hour, include sound and from our research there are no existing High-Definition digital prints of either of these films anywhere. We have seen a few horrid grainy VHS...Read More...

Podcast

Mini Podcast – Ep 10.5: RetroCon and Episode Previews

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Welcome to Episode 10.5 of the Retro Disney World Podcast: “RetroCon and Episode Previews” – We appreciate your support and hope you have been enjoying each and every episode. Be sure to check out some of our previous shows. RetroCon Brian and JT will be a RetroCon at a Retro Disney World table this coming weekend in the greater Philadelphia area! Brian discusses what RetroCon is and explains the cool items we’ll have on display as...Read More...

Disney World Home Movies, Restored Films

Lets Whoop ‘n Holler again at River Country ’78 – Restored Home Movie HD

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Over the past year of so we've been restoring many Magic Kingdom films...each of which lends to some amazing discovery that we haven't seen before. However, when you discover a film that includes footage from MK and River Country you tend to get very excited, and then when you realize there is more RC footage than MK you really get pumped...and realize some took an expensive (for the time) camera into a water park, positioned themselves…Read More...

Videos

Home Video: Disney MGM Studios from August 1989

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If you've listened to podcast Episode 10 of the Retro Disney World Podcast: "Hooray for Floridawood" you may be wondering where some of the attraction sound bites originated from. Todd has just shared nearly 40 minutes of footage from his trip in August 1989 that was used for parts of the podcast. The video starts out at 6:30am, the sun is just coming up for a very early 7am opening.Read More...

Retro Disney World

Welcome to Mesa Verde University

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For many of us fans the Horizons pavilion in EPCOT Center will always hold a special place in our hearts. While it closed years ago it lives on for many in the ride’s dialog and many can recite it from memory. One particular part of the attraction recently inspired us to create several t-shirt designs, the first of which (oh yes, there are more on the horizon!) we are revealing today.. Welcome to Mesa Verde University!...Read More...

Podcast

Podcast Episode 10: Hooray for Floridawood

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We take you back to the opening day of the Disney-MGM Studios, way back on May 1, 1989. Our very own How and our guest, Hoot Gibson were waiting in the parking lot all night to be the first through the gates. They discuss rubbing elbows with Michael Eisner and Bob Hope and of course giving commentary about being the first to see different attractions. How has a great story about being the first person ever…Read More...

Blog

Help @RetroWDW restore two rare 16mm WDW films in High Definition

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By now you are probably familiar with what we have been doing here at RetroDisneyWorld.com – aside from the podcast, the t-shirts and photos….Todd has been busy restoring a variety of 8mm WDW home movies  – Some of these are his own personal home movies and others were eBay finds. Additionally Brian has been scouring local flea markets and garage sales and the hunt has paid off, a number of fantastic films were purchased, digitally transferred...Read More...

Podcast

Podcast Episode 9 – Building the Golden Dream

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Welcome to Episode 9 of the Retro Disney World Podcast: “Building the Golden Dream” – We appreciate your support and hope you have been enjoying each and every episode. Be sure to check out some of the previous shows. Corrections and Comments We go back and rehash a little bit about the Town Square Cafe and also who the original designer of the Electrical Water Pageant was. Todd has an oddball thought about a Cuttlefish and...Read More...

Disney World Home Movies, Restored Films

Come visit the EPCOT Center of 1982 – RARE 16mm Home Movie restored in HD

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It has been awhile since we posted a film restoration and I guess for good reason. I was away on vacation and the entire podcast crew has been busy researching the show and designing our t-shirts and merchandise (If you haven't seen our exclusive original retro designs, check out www.retrodisneyworld.com/supportus) But there is another reason, and it's a good one...I've been hard at work restoring a pristine 16mm home movie of the early days of EPCOT…Read More...

RetroReplicas

Prototype Coasters

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A while back we did some 3D print tests with a 3rd print company to see how the EPCOT logos would look…we recently added our very own 3D printer to our arsenal of tools and we figured we’d print out a full and complete set as a prototype. While these are reliefs and made of plastic, we may make the final product with a rubber material and inset the logo. Further below you will find another…Read More...