Inventing Disneyland

<p>A Definitive History</p><p></p><p>Walt Disney was a busy man. Between feature films both live and animated a weekly hour-long television show and the day-to-day operations of his studio he had no time and even less money to invent and then build that strange thing he called a theme park. But he did...</p><p></p><p>Meet the cadre of six men who imagined and described the specifics of Walt Disney's vision for a new kind of family entertainment park-the men of WED Enterprises who began the process of inventing Disneyland.</p><p></p><p>Enter the bustling Disneyland Plans Room at Walt Disney's custom-designed studio. Disney drew upon the talents of tinkerers and hobbyists artists writers engineers architects builders and-especially-Hollywood art directors to realize his dream.</p><p></p><p>See the site transformed from moonscape to wonderland and struggle along with the park's management as they rush headlong toward an opening day that seems impossible to achieve.</p><p></p><p>Based on years of original research and interviews this is the true but unauthorized story-complete with vintage photos-of just what it took to invent the happiest place on earth and make Walt Disney's dream come true.</p><p></p>