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Video: @RetroWDW Lake and Lagoon Tour: Discovery Edition & EPCOT Walking Tour

Tagged: Bay Lake, lake and lagon, Retrowdw, Roy's Cabin, Video

In 2016 we held the Lake and Lagoon Tour where we commandeered a number of pontoon boats and sailed with our listeners on a tour of Bay Lake and Seven Seas Lagoon. Due to the small size of the boats we had a limited number of tickets to sell, as…

Einsel Theater: The Age of Information – Complete Video, Song and Lyrics

Tagged: Age of Information, Communicore, Einsel Theater, Futurecom, Video, Walter Einsel

The Display Closed in the early 1990s, one area of Communicore West can easily be crowned as the definitive definition of a prophecy that came true. Nestled along a huge wall in Futurecom, this 40 foot kinetic sculpture included fifty-five automaton figures and countless animated devices, props and displays; all…

Rare 1980s Publicity Video – Walt Disney World

Tagged: EPCOT Center, Publicity, The Magic Kingdom, Umatic Tape, WDW

This was a unique find. It was a ¾” U-Matic videotape of publicity footage prepared for media outlets by Walt Disney World. It had two audio tracks. The first was narrated and the second had just ambient noise captured in the footage. This was so the footage could be used…

Communicore East and West Home Video – 1980s

Tagged: 1980s, Communicore, Communicore East, Communicore West, EPCOT Center, Home Video

With the release of last weeks podcast episode (Ep 38 Communicore East) we figured it was as good a time as any to dig up some of Todd’s Communicore West footage from 1986. As we were about to do that we got an email from the Dworsky Family of Texas…

River Country, River Country! 1978 Music Video

Tagged: River Country, Video

We recently had a little fun with one of our previously restored films - a 1978 home movie that featured a lot of footage of River Country. We took the theme song to River Country - I bet you didn't know it had one - and edited the film to…

Looking Back at Tomorrow: An EPCOT35 Celebration Video

Tagged: EPCOT Center, epcot35, Events, Retrowdw

On September 30 2017, RetroWDW hosted Looking Back at Tomorrow – An event celebrating EPCOT Center’s 35th birthday. We filled the Living Seas Salon to capacity, and had we been able to get a larger space we would have loved to have more people attend. However, thanks to Art Miles,…

If EPCOT Could Talk – An Animated Short by Reese Miles

Tagged: Animation, EPCOT Center

In a handful of podcast episodes you may have heard us answer listener mail from Reese Miles. She’s one of our younger followers that has an affinity for WDW but is especially enamored by EPCOT Center. Over the years she has poured over books and media expanding her knowlege of…

The Muppets at Walt Disney World Video – NBC Special from May 1990

Tagged: 1990, DIsney-MGM Studios, EPCOT Center, Frontierland, Muppets, Video

This NBC special, which aired on May 5, 1990 is one of the four prime time shows we discuss in episode 30 of the RetroWDW Podcast. This program turned out to be the last Muppets special that Henson would work on as he passed away just 10 after its airing…

Final EPCOT Center B-Roll Video – China & Mexico – Part 10 & 11 of 11

Tagged: B-Roll, China, El Rio del Tiempo, EPCOT Center, Mexico, Stock Footage, World Showcase

We continue with our series of EPCOT Center B-Roll footage from a 1987 3/4" videotape issued by Disney to media outlets for their use. We cover China and Mexico this time.

EPCOT Center B-Roll Video – Italy and Germany – Part 8 & 9 of 11

Tagged: 1987, B-Roll, EPCOT Center, Germany, Italy, Stock Footage, World Showcase

We continue with our series of EPCOT Center B-Roll footage from a 1987 3/4" videotape issued by Disney to media outlets for their use. This time we visit Italy and Germany in World Showcase.

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