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Disney-MGM Studios Backlot Tram Tour – October 1, 1991

Tagged: backlot, Disney-MGM Studios, Home Video, mgm, Tour, Trams, VHS

Leading up to our next podcast, which will be release soon, we dug up some footage from the Backlot Tour in 1991. This was filmed on 8mm video and there are some notable things to look for. Normally, you would see Herbie sitting there in these early days, doing wheelies,…

Pleasure Island – May 1992 – New Year’s Eve Countdown

Tagged: Disney, pleasure island, WDW

So here we are, just a few days away from New Years and we have a gem for you. This takes us back to 1992, May 28th to be exact. Some say this was the heyday of Pleasure Island where a nightly New Year’s Eve countdown happened and it was…

Holiday Specials of the 90s

Tagged: Christmas, Disney World, Holidays, Music, Parade, VHS, Video

If 2020 is the year of ‘video’ for RetroWDW, then we need to start right now for the holiday season. On our upcoming podcast, we tackle three different Christmas specials that Disney released in the earlier part of the 90s. These three VHS rips really take you back to when…

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

Tagged: Bay Lake, EPCOT Center, Lake and Lagoon Tour, RetroWDW Events, Roy's Cabin, Tour, 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 timed…

Rare 1980s Publicity Video – Walt Disney World

Tagged: EPCOT Center, Magic Kingdom, Publicity, Umatic Tape, Video

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 Events

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, Video

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…

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