The Disney Monorail

Name: The Disney Monorail
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Imagineering A Highway In The Sky

By: Jeff Kurtti

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Hardcover | 15 September 2020 | Edition Number 1

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Hardcover
10 Pages

Age
12 - 99

Dimensions(cm)
29.7 x 24.4 x 2.7

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Deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney's most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail.
Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon. But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future. In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications.
In The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky, readers will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt's prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere. Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world.
Through a lively and succinct narrative and a stunning collection of unique historical photographs and rare concept and development art (much of it never before published) readers will be transported into a future where yesterday's dreams are tomorrow's realities!
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PRAISE FOR FROM ALL OF US TO ALL OF YOU: THE DISNEY CHRISTMAS CARD

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PRAISE FOR THE ART OF MULAN

". . . chronicles the production team's research trip to China and the creative development of the pic . . ."--Variety

PRAISE FOR TRAVELS WITH WALT DISNEY

". . . no small feat to do what Jeff Kurtti has done . . ."--Jason Cochran, Editor-in-Chief, Frommers.com

PRAISE FOR TRAVELS WITH WALT DISNEY

"Highly recommended!"--John Canemaker, NYU professor and head of Animation Studies

PRAISE FOR TRAVELS WITH WALT DISNEY

One of "20 Books Every True Disney Fan Should Have in Their Collection"--POPSUGAR

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