Journey Into Imagination January 1996 Widen Your World Widen Your World 2014-04-25 | Amy and our friend Cathy set out to record the ride from start to finish back when Dreamfinder was still calling the shots. This is what they came back with.
Pirates of the Caribbean - Live Audio - Queue Chess Match 1993 Widen Your World 2024-09-14 | Seventeen minutes of background audio from one of the best attraction queues of all time.
Mr. Toads Wild Ride - Live Audio - Hell Blackout 1994 Widen Your World 2024-08-05 | Another WYW drop-off recording from the Florida version of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, this one with the spooky sound effects between the train crash and hell. Almost certainly crafted by Disney sound effects legend Jimmy MacDonald. With plenty of sounds bleeding in from other ride scenes to make it even better!
Sea World of Florida Penguin Encounter Main Exhibit BGM 1987 Widen Your World 2024-06-14 | What you heard was what you got. Over and over and over. From the 1987 source file provided to Mike Lee by Danny Pressler.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Narration Live Audio Recording 1989 Widen Your World 2023-07-08 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in-sub audio recorded live by me (Mike Lee) in 1989, when I was a helmsman at the attraction. This was recorded in the sail and includes all of Captain Nemo's narration, including the "all ashore" that's often missing in live audio recordings.In this recording I only spieled to guests before and after Nemo spoke all his lines so I could have a complete, uninterrupted document of how it was supposed to sound. So I edited my voice out of this version. If you wanna hear the version with me in it, make me believe it lol.
If You Had Wings Film Footage c1976 Widen Your World 2022-07-02 | Provided to me by Pat Connor on VHS more years ago than I can remember, this is the only If You Had Wings footage I've ever seen that contains the Speed Room's snow skiing (Canada's Laurentian Mountains) and surfing film segments.
Walt Disney World Background Audio Representational Mix Widen Your World 2021-07-12 | This is an edit of actual background audio from WDW's Transportation and Ticket Center in the early 1970s with a couple additional songs from that era (Louis Prima's Winnie the Pooh and Fantasia's Dance of the Reed Flutes) added in, with a few songs by the WDW band removed.
Pinocchios Daring Journey Pig Close-Up Widen Your World 2020-07-12 | Get yourself a pig video that's as happy as this little piggy is.
Horizons Load Area Viewpoint 1994 Widen Your World 2019-11-17 | The last of my Horizons tripod shots. The hosts were very friendly and gracious enough to not come up and give me hell about having a tripod set up in the queue. And because of this we have one more piece of Horizons to watch now.
Universe of Energy 1996 Widen Your World 2019-11-02 | Here's some mostly dark and grainy footage of the original Universe of Energy attraction at EPCOT Center, recorded on its last day of operation in 1996 before the ride was closed and converted to Ellen's Energy Adventure.
Floridas Disney Decade (Full) Widen Your World 2019-09-28 | 1981 video produced by Walt Disney Productions and aired on local (Orlando) television. Contains an overview of the developments that led to Disney's land purchases in Central Florida and the first ten years of WDW operation. Previously only posted in segments. The quality is still very low, but we've been down that road before. It's not even a road!
Walt Disney World Rivers of America Pirates Cove Live Audio Widen Your World 2019-06-04 | This is one of the live sounds on my list that required a fair amount of coordination to record because, being on Tom Sawyer Island, it couldn't be done under cover of darkness like a lot of other things. Not unless you spent the night on the island. And my first attempt at spending the night pretty much soured me on trying again. So this was less complicated than THAT, but not without some risks.
WDW Haunted Mansion Backstage March 1992 Widen Your World 2019-05-18 | Dark, grainy and not super long, but it's kind of fun anyway. Shot by Dave Ensign or Mike Lee on one of many off-limits trips underneath the ride track.
Astuter Computer Revue Live Audio c. 1983 Widen Your World 2019-05-12 | The only record of the original show as far as I'm aware, recorded on a Kmart cassette on my dad's Realistic recorder. Hoping that one day a better version surfaces.
WDW Haunted Mansion Seance Circle Live Audio 1988 Widen Your World 2019-04-22 | This was the first time I went into a backstage area to make an audio recording. I was working at the Mansion at the time, so it was easier than just sneaking in some other way... but either way would have worked fine. I was standing below everything (on the ground floor) while Madame Leota and the ride vehicles were up on the second floor. You can hear the "rap" on the table because I was standing right next to the knocking mechanism with my recorder.
Walt Disney World Transportation & Ticket Center Background Live Audio August 1991 Widen Your World 2019-01-14 | Can you imagine sitting there with your Coke, a book and a cassette recorder, hellbent on getting the best sample of this audio that was possible at the time? If not, just listen and listen and listen... you'll get there.
World of Motion Ride-through Live Audio c. 1983 Widen Your World 2019-01-14 | Here's the earliest live recording of the full ride audio that I'm aware of. Listen closely and you'll notice some differences within the narration from this version to the final.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (WDW) Organ Source Audio Track Widen Your World 2018-09-22 | The original organ recording for the 1971 attraction. The final version used in the ride was an edit of this recording, using only the first "movement" of the track.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Live Audio (Submarine Organ) Widen Your World 2018-09-14 | Noisy as noise, but probably the only extended live sample of the organ in existence... recorded in an empty sub parked on the spur line during one of my breaks when I worked at the ride. You can hear that the music's a little warped, probably due to an old tape in the unit.
Carousel of Progress Now Is The Time Live Audio March 1989 Widen Your World 2018-02-10 | Once uploaded this it will be the only file on the internet that includes the entire Carousel of Progress audio cycle from its "Now Is The Time" era (1975-1993). There are source files for most of it but they don't include the soul/disco track that played as the audience transitioned from the 1970s/1980s scene to the Unload scene. I recorded this by sneaking into the Unload scene and turning on my cassette recorder before the theater started moving to the Load scene, and because of loading cycles back then I remained in an empty theater for the duration of the recording, which yielded a pretty good document of the entire show. Enjoy!Photo credit for still image to Daveland.com
Tropical Serenade Exterior April 1997 Widen Your World 2017-07-30 | It's April 1997 and you're looking at the exterior of the Tropical Serenade's entry pagoda as seen from the forecourt of the world famous Jungle Cruise.
Walt Disney World Welcome Center Holding Area Video 1996 Widen Your World 2017-07-29 | This 25th anniversary video played for the duration of the WDW "Welcome Center's" short lifespan (1996 - 1998) shortly thereafter to be converted into the Main Street Exhibition Hall. That space was originally The Walt Disney Story (1973-1992). This video was recorded in April 1997.
Caribbean Plaza Live Background Audio January 1989 Widen Your World 2017-07-12 | Recorded from a balcony above El Pirata y el Perico, taking in atmospheric sounds of the Pirates attraction entrance plus the original plaza background music.
Symbiosis Live Audio October 1988 Widen Your World 2017-06-25 | Live from the Harvest Theater in EPCOT Center's Land Pavilion, Symbiosis: A Creative Partnership in its entirety. Check out http://www.martinsvids.net for video of the same show.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Live Audio Ride-through February 1975 Widen Your World 2017-04-30 | Jerry Klatt has captured yet ANOTHER one of his historic cassette recordings to digital and this one is so rare you'd better sit down twice before listening. The original 20K audio with multiple alternate dialogue passages, and a different organ background track, which as of the time Jerry made this recording would only last another six months, then the ride would undergo a major rehab that changed up a bunch of stuff including the in-sub audio. Thanks again Jerry for blowing our minds!
Frontierland Shootin Gallery Live Audio Widen Your World 2017-04-16 | This recording was made sometime around 1978 by Jerry Klatt, a pioneer in live WDW audio who captured a lot of sounds that no one else did. It's noisy but gives a great capture of the arcade before it was converted to digital.
EPCOT Center FutureCom Age of Information Live Audio Widen Your World 2016-12-31 | The worst live recording I made... noisy room and no way to get near a speaker, but it is at least a record of the whole song.
Mr. Toads Wild Ride - Live Audio - Chickens 1994 Widen Your World 2016-11-20 | What you'd have heard if you jumped out of your car and stood in the barn for eight and a half minutes.
Mr. Toads Wild Ride Dispatch Viewpoint January 1994 Widen Your World 2016-11-12 | One minute of exactly this
20,000 Leagues Front Dock Viewpoint August 1994 Widen Your World 2016-11-02 | It's about one week before the ride will close forever and most visitors to 20K don't know this will be their last voyage aboard the Nautilus. Then there's that Skyway. And if you could turn to the right, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Sigh.
Alice In Wonderland (Disneyland) Live Audio February 1992 Widen Your World 2016-10-10 | Just over six minutes of live audio from the Tulgey Wood scene or, as it is otherwise known, six minutes in heaven.
World of Motion Unload Platform 30 Sep 1995 Widen Your World 2016-08-13 | Look at all those smiling faces - they've just seen the future of transportation!
Circle-Vision 360 Magic Carpet Round The World Live Audio by Jerry Klatt Widen Your World 2016-08-06 | Jerry has done it again - this is an extremely rare document of a show that only played during the Magic Kingdom's first ten years, and even then only some of the time.
Space Mountain - Live Audio - 1975 - by Jerry Klatt & Foxxfur Widen Your World 2016-04-15 | Jerry recorded a series of live sounds inside the brand new 1975 Space Mountain at WDW. Foxxfur strung them together into one file. From the first step into the attraction at the top of the entry ramp to the exit of RCA's Home of Future Living, this is one of the best documents of what guests actually heard during those early years.
Pinocchios Daring Journey (Disneyland) Live Audio January 1995 Widen Your World 2016-02-06 | 10 minutes of live audio from the Gepetto's Village scene near the end of the ride. Includes the voice of Jiminy Cricket and some guest sounds as they pass through.
World of Motion Backwards Ride-through 1995 Widen Your World 2016-01-24 | Because once you've shot it forwards...
Its A Small World Source Audio Remix - South Pacific Scene Widen Your World 2015-12-27 | Source audio remixed by Brian Lee and looped
Snow Whites Scary Adventures - Live Audio - Dwarfs Mine 1994 Widen Your World 2015-11-04 | This is what it would sound like if you fell out of your ride vehicle in the Dwarf's Mine scene and couldn't find your way out.
Mr. Toads Wild Ride - Source Audio - Toad Hall 1971 Widen Your World 2015-10-24 | This is the audio track that played in the Toad Hall scene from 1971 to 1995, after which point a track from Disneyland's version of the ride replaced it. This track originally came from Spencer Cook's Virtual Toad site and I added reverb so it sounds more like it did in the attraction.
Peter Pans Flight Load Area Viewpoint January 1994 Widen Your World 2015-09-03 | Soak in the unusual glimpse of an enormously popular ride free of visitors for an entire 60 seconds, during park hours. I mean, there were people walking through Fantasyland (I was one of them), but no one was in line for PPF. Inconceivable?
Tomorrowland Terrace Tomorrow Express April 1992 Widen Your World 2015-08-16 | A very rare look at the Tomorrowland Terrace's stage rising up to dining room level. Plus a band that seems to have been at least half-prepared to play something.
Disney On Parade 1971 Bare Neccessities Segment Widen Your World 2015-08-03 | Just because you had to see it. If you were to believe it.
The Mickey Mouse Revue - Live Audio c. 1977 Widen Your World 2015-08-02 | This recording was provided to WYW by Dave Barker of the National Fantasy Fan Club. It includes a portion of the attraction's holding area spiel, the full pre-show and the full show. Enjoy!
1974 WDW Home Movies Widen Your World 2015-04-26 | This is NOT my video, but something I saw years ago with the intent of linking to on WYW - but the original is no longer on YouTube! So I'm posting from my original capture but taking no credit for its existence. If you find it elsewhere online please let me know and I'll retire this version. It's low-quality but there are some great things here like the Swan Boats and Skyway. My favorite is a little bit of original 20K narration from Captain Nemo that was changed during the ride's 1975 rehab.
Snow Whites Adventures Exit Viewpoints (Brief) 1992 Widen Your World 2015-04-18 | Two quick tripod shots from the exit end of the load diorama
World of Motion Transcenter Lean Machine Video Widen Your World 2014-05-27 | Just around the corner of the future we find this gem of a vehicle.
