Disneyland Monorail Ride and Disneys California Adventure Construction Progressland 2018-05-21 | A ride on the Disneyland Monorail from Tomorrowland to the Disneyland Hotel on New Tomorrowland Media Day, May 21, 1998.
January 25, 1998 Tram Ride from Pinocchio Parking Lot to Disneyland Progressland 2023-01-25 | Video taken four days after Disneyland's original Parking Lot closed shows the Disneyland Resort at a time of great transition.
Bob Gurr on Monorails as Urban Transportation Progressland 2022-01-15 | Interview excerpt of Bob Gurr by Jason Schultz and Kevin Livingston, April 18, 2000Would you have liked to have seen your designs for the Monorail used as transportation in large urban areas?Bob Gurr: That’s another interesting question. My truthful opinion of monorails is that they are really not very good. The reason I’m saying that is I’ve designed four different generations of monorails and the reason we have monorails in America today in the Disney Parks is because Walt wanted it in the worst way and he accidentally ran across it in Germany. The company that was developing it in Germany probably would not have gone much past the late 1950s or early ’60s trying to develop this type of design because it has so many inefficiencies and limitations. Stop and think a minute: on one hand, people look at the Monorail either at Disneyland or at Walt Disney World and say, "That’s the future." The reason for that is Walt wanted this train…I thought the German train that he showed me a picture of was so ugly and the challenge was to make a good-looking train. Only I accidentally made a train so advanced-looking that the idea of this thing sitting up on a beamway gave the impression that this is the great big beautiful tomorrow of transportation and it is coming. It’s stolen right out of Buck Rogers rocket ship on a tall, thin beamway in the air. When you actually get to looking at a vehicle for transportation and stop and think how stupid a German saddleback monorail is, that within the total volume structure of the vehicle, you have to have all the structure of the vehicle which is cut out of the bottom (because it has to straddle the beamway). So in other words it’s an inefficient structure because it’s open. Then it has a lot of window space which means you can’t really build it like an airplane where you have a monocock structure that can be very efficient…you have this structure that has to be in all these places where there’s nothing for doors and windows and the bottom of the train. Inside this vehicle shape you also have to have the entire road suspension—not only wheels to support it, but wheels on the side to stabilize it—so you carry a lot more suspension weight and volume than you normally would have than if you had a road vehicle. At the same time, in that same volume you have to contain the entire roadway that it runs on. Most people don’t think of a monorail in that way…that this is a hopelessly inefficient mechanism to design. And the smaller it gets, like in a small scale for Disneyland, where the people sit down and you don’t have full standing room, this becomes even harder to do in a smaller and tighter structure. Nothing has changed about designing monorails. The bigger ones, like in Japan, that are based upon the Alweg design are structurally a little easier to do. Monorails also have a deficiency in that they can’t carry near as much weight as far and as fast on rubber tires as you can on steel rail. Another limitation is monorails don’t have the ability to have high-speed switches because you literally have a track where you can run off the end of the beam if the switch doesn’t work all the way. So you have a time loss of allowing a switch to totally switch—changing from one track to another. These are all limitations of a transportation system that have always been argued about when cities would look at a monorail. You can’t get away from plain, simple facts. Walt spent a lot of time showing off the Disneyland train to governments…visitors from all over the country…to say, "Here’s an example of modern transit." People would think it’s modern because it looks modern, but I’m the designer and I can tell you how inefficient it is. We literally did it because Walt said, "I want it."
Bruce Gordon: Moonliner. Oh, yeah. Progressland 2020-04-18 | Bruce Gordon produced this video for the July 1998 National Fantasy Fan Club convention. It documents the fabrication and installation of Moonliner III in Disneyland's Tomorrowland.
Bruce Gordon: Disneyland: The Nickel Tour - Update 1996 Progressland 2019-07-18 | Bruce Gordon produced this video in 1996 to update the National Fantasy Fan Club convention attendees on the book he wrote with fellow Imagineer David Mumford.
Bruce Gordon: The Making of Disneyland: The Nickel Tour Progressland 2019-07-17 | In 1995, Imagineers Bruce Gordon and David Mumford released their book Disneyland: The Nickel Tour at the National Fantasy Fan Club convention. This video, created by Bruce Gordon and shown at the convention, showcases the European printing of the best Disneyland history book.
Dave Smith & Walt Disney Office Tour: Walts Working Office (3/3) Progressland 2019-02-16 | Walt Disney Company Archivist Dave Smith presents on Walt Disney's offices to Disneyland Cast Members in fall 1997.
Dave Smith & Walt Disney Office Tour: Walts Formal Office (2/3) Progressland 2019-02-16 | Walt Disney Company Archivist Dave Smith presents on Walt Disney's offices to Disneyland Cast Members in fall 1997.
Dave Smith & Walt Disney Office Tour: Introduction (1/3) Progressland 2019-02-16 | Walt Disney Company Archivist Dave Smith presents on Walt Disney's offices to Disneyland Cast Members in fall 1997.
Sherman Brothers Concert at the Golden Horseshoe (December 19, 1998) Progressland 2018-05-23 | Tim O'Day hosts a concert and reminiscence by Richard and Robert Sherman at the Golden Horseshoe in Disneyland Park, December 19, 1998. Pam Dahl joins on several songs. The event was held in conjunction with a book signing at The Disney Gallery for Walt's Time: From Before to Beyond. Authors David Mumford, Bruce Gordon, and Jeff Kurtti make an appearance.
Tony Baxter Interview on New Tomorrowland Media Day Progressland 2018-05-21 | Interview with Imagineer Marty Sklar by David Marquez. Recorded at the New Tomorrowland Media Day at Disneyland Park, May 21, 1998
Rocket Rods POV Ride-Through on New Tomorrowland Media Day (Digital Source) Progressland 2018-05-21 | Front seat POV ride-through on the Rocket Rods on New Tomorrowland Media Day, May 21, 1998.
Marty Sklar Interview on New Tomorrowland Media Day (May 21, 1998) Progressland 2018-05-21 | Interview with Imagineer Marty Sklar about Tomorrowlands past and present by David Marquez. Recorded at the New Tomorrowland Media Day at Disneyland Park, May 21, 1998
Rocket Rods Ride-Through Progressland 2015-05-25 | First-person perspective on a Rocket Rods ride-through, taken several weeks before the attraction opened on May 22, 1998
Rustic America in Vermont Progressland 2010-02-12 | Brief clip from 1967 version of Circle-Vision film "America the Beautiful"
