1982 EPCOT Center - RARE 16mm Home Movie
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- It has been awhile since we posted a film restoration and I guess for good reason. I was away on vacation and the entire podcast crew has been busy researching the show and designing our t-shirts and merchandise (If you haven't seen our exclusive original retro designs, check out retrodisneyworld.com/supportus) But there is another reason, and it's a good one...I've been hard at work restoring a pristine 16mm home movie of the early days of EPCOT Center. I took a bit more time to restore this film as anything with EPCOT on film is a rarity, but 16mm with sound puts this to a level of super rare and its over 17 minutes long.
Ok so what is in this film? First you'll notice that the entire film is narrated by the individual who filmed it. While I thought this was boring at first, he brings a unique aspect to the film and if you pay attention to his commentary you'll find some very interesting comments that demonstrate how EPCOT was viewed by its guests in the early 1980s. The film starts right in the front of EPCOT and we see the amazing acrylic fountain and Spaceship Earth. Our visit to Future World is brief but fantastic. Horizons under construction, the marquee signs on Communicore and other wonderful sights. We then dive into World Showcase in a very detailed fashion starting with Canada. I love how the photographer zooms in on "TV personality Michael Young...he used to be on Kids are People Too"...From there every World Showcase pavilion is discussed in great detail before coming around to Future World again for some wonderful footage inside Imageworks at the Journey into Imagination Pavilion.
This did not come cheap, I spent quite a bit of money to obtain the films and then the cost to restore them. I've opened up the Tip Jar on this film in case you'd like to help support future endeavors. A film like this cost nearly $400 to procure, transfer, restore and distribute.
Bless whoever filmed this back in 1982, seemingly for themselves alone. No youtube back then.
On 16mm film no less!
If I could travel back in time.. it would be to Epcot in the 80's. It was a completely magical place.I miss the original Journey into Imagination with Dreamfinder and Figment... and Horizons and the World of Motion. So many great memories!!
THIS. My first time was 1984 when I was 11 yrs old and it became my favorite park.
Had the pleasure of being part of Epcot Center's opening crew - A fantastic thing to have been a part of. Will always hold special memories for me, despite how much it's been butchered since.
Iger’s legacy is not looking good at this point.. it’s a shame that it’s IPCOT now:(
@@TheMissouriSpartan Horizons, World of Motion and the fully working Imagination are my best memories from my first trip to WDW. I really miss them.
thats so amazing!
I was lucky enough to visit Epcot in the mid eighties when I was a kid. It was truly a magical place.
I love historical footage, it's like going back in time. I remember hearing about this when it opened, but I never had a chance to go there.
Alan Linnell it was an amazing experience. I was there on day one.
As a kid I went the year after it first opened. I remember being mesmerized by Horizons and world of motion. How oh how were they replaced with the snooze fest that is test track and mission to Mars, people nowadays are really missing out
Great footage of the Rainbow Tunnel! They should totally bring that back.
I remember the rainbow 🌈 tunnel i have a picture of me there that was taken when I was 3yrs old
Apparently it is still intact, or so I've read. Behind the wall of the DVC lounge
11:47 the Japanese Castle was originally intended to be home to Meet the World-An Audio Animatronics/Carousel Theater show that told the history of Japan was going to open the same time as it's counterpart in Tokyo Disneyland.
I remember all of it as a bowl haircut kid. I remember the guy at China making a caramel swan and then giving it to me.. God bless em. I remember all of the 2nd floor figment area with the pin tables and being in those fun little movies they'd do. I remember the buses. I remember my dad always saying, "The fall of Rome" once we smelt bacon in the "golf ball". I remember the lagoon dragon boats. I remember burgers at The Odyssey. I remember Dreamfinder and Figment messing with my hair. I remember talking to SMRT-1. I remember the rollercoaster builder beaver. I remember ALL of Communicore, East and West. And I remember never wanting to be at E.P.C.O.T. Center, because we were already so close to Magic Kingdom lol. When Wonders of Life came around, the first thing I wanted to do was ride the treadmills there that had mildly interactive Magic Kingdom footage in the bikes lol.
But above all this amazement, I remember my dad, who gave me such happy cherished memeories.
He loved "The Tiki Birds".
I visited there with a friend of mine for the first time in January of '83 when it was still pretty new. I remember the sense of awe I had and how it was a wonderful time in my life to be young and alive
I love the fountain outside Spaceship Earth. I think it was still there in 1988 when we visited for the first time (from the UK).
The bus needs to come back!
I initially couldn’t understand what bank building the narrator was comparing Spaceship Earth to.
I used the closed captioning option which transcribed it as Three-Port State Bank, which was obviously wrong. I then deduced that he was probably saying “Freeport State Bank.”
I searched on Googled and found that there is a building formerly known as the Freeport State Bank Building in Freeport, IL. Freeport State Bank eventually became U.S. Bank and the building became the U.S. Bank Building before assuming its current name, The Stewart Centre.
The Stewart Centre in Freeport is 12 stories tall and is located at 50 West Douglas Street, Freeport, IL.
I wonder if the narrator was a professor at Highland Community College in Freeport since he compared the height of Spaceship Earth to the Freeport State Bank Building.
That seems like such an odd and obscure comparison unless he was intending to show this film to an audience local to Freeport.
This guy was ahead of his time he was a CZcamsr before there was youtube!!!! I remember going here when I was little in the late 80s and early 90s all the memories of the rides will never see this again. Sooo magical
So beautiful!!!! Im so upset that i cant ever see this epcot... im only 20..
Only??? 20 isn't that damn young!
21
This guy must've been a college professor, judging by his knowledge and the way he talks, maybe he was making a home film to show in a class?
It’s like one of the first Disney parks vlogs! Incredible! 🙌
what I would give to go back to that Epcot.
Well they they are!
Me too!
Outstanding clarity for 1980s
Joe Smith That’s because was done on 16mm film, probably Kodachrome. The guy must have had a nice movie camera too with good lenses.
My parents took me there in 1989 after my 12 Birthday. We had a 3day pass. My favorite was the underwater base ride.
Man, those 80s shorts......I remember those days showing so much leg as a teenage boy ! Ha, seeing it today, looks like we were wearing Hot Pants from the old Southwest Airlines flight attendants.
@2:57 I remember Kids Are People, Too. What a throwback to the early 80s, man.
The one person who disliked this video thinks that removing Universe of Energy for a Guardians of the Galaxy ride and replacing Maelstrom with a Frozen ride, was a good idea.
Fills me with joy to see the tombstones removed and the fountain prisms return. Oh how I loved those tall palms too. Very excited for the upcoming 50th anniversary for WDW as well as EPCOT's 40th the following year.
This was so well done for its time. Loved it.
"Impressions de France....also a restaurant."
This narrator is my kinda man. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Dang, this 16mm film is 100% better shape than most 16mm films.
probably well stored all these years
I'm so glad to be watching this sine I was born in 1982 By the time I was 3, it was my first and so far only trip to disneyworld. I will be going to visit again soon. Hope EPCOT has a 40 yr celebration next yr
Horizons did not exist in 1982. The film is from either very late 1982 or was made in 83’ prior to horizons open8ng
it was probably under construction
This is amazing video, and very well restored! Thank you for posting!! I've got a little bit of old footage on my channel, but not nearly as well restored as yours!!
Hello!
Thank you. It brings back a lot of great memories. My parents, sister and I (all adults at the time) went to WDW for the first time in early June of "84 and returned one year later. We stayed at the Club Lake Villas. We loved everything, except the heat which stopped us dead in our tracks leaving the airport interior to step into a cab. While EPCOT Center was easily our favorite, at the Villas we would take the golf cart to the WDW Village Marketplace which became an attraction ride in itself.
So much footage of once was. All original ideas. Now jus living off I.P.s
I just got really sad when I saw the sign for Alfredo's restaurant in the Italy pavilion. The original and best fettuccine Alfredo I have ever had. Now replaced by a cheap impostor restaurant thanks to the Disney dining plan.
I thought the food was okay.
The food is actually better, now. It looks much the same inside, too.
I’m going to take my aunt to EPCOT next Sunday. It’s gonna be her first time going to this particular park and I cannot wait to see what she thinks of it
THIS IS PHENOMENAL!
Epcot is Phenomenal
This is gorgeous to watch on an OLED
I loved the double decker busses!
8:31 Originally intended to be the Rhine River Cruise
This guy has done some seripius traveling. It's amsot as if World Showcase is just a mini version of his reliving his wotrld travels.
I wonder if he knew or knows the gift he gave the world with this great video. Seems like he would hsve done well in the CZcams age.
This is great! Thanks for making this available! Somehow I never knew that the colors in the Rainbow Tunnel in Imagination MOVED! 0.0 That's awesome!
I like how the cameraman focuses in on the little diorama in the UK, and makes a point of highlighting all the strange meet and greet characters (I didn't realize they blinked! Thing no. 2 learned from this video).
(Also, poor guy thinking Impressions was another restaurant...)
Fantastic work, guys!
2:10 from the letter “M” on that reflector Green, Starboard reflector that motor launch is the Mariner, crazy to see it on World Showcase lagoon!
And at 10:50 there’s one of the Friendships, nice !
So many normal sized people
it's almost hd, it's so clear
Very cool! Thanks for sharing!
Was this filmed two different years? He said it was two different days. The boats change. I know the friendship boats had trouble and did not always work. Any explanation? Same day two different boats, or different day or year?
Everyone dressed well
Very true. People dress very low-brow today. Like bums. And, thanks to the alcohol sold now, often act like trash. Disney World is much less classy than it once was because people are much less classy.
Lmao wtf are you on about?? In one of the first shots of people, they’re all wearing athletic gear and 2 of them don’t have shirts on
They really didn’t
Tremendous! I only wish we could see the slides he talked about.
When life was still worth living.
It's great to see this and compare it to today's version of EPCOT. Anyone else think the narrator here sounds a bit like Joe Pera?
Crystal clear piece of nostalgia! (☆_☆)
The color restoration is great! BUT the jello-like "stabilization" drives me crazy. I wonder if it's part of the original film conversion or was introduced in the restoration?
I may be wrong, but 8mm and 16mm had the "holes" on the side of the film (16mm had them on both sides if it had sound, but 8mm only had holes on one side even if it did have sound.) that are what kept it aligned as it got fed through the projector. (I only had 8mm camera and projector.) Over time with age and sometimes from a lot of use the holes would become worn and the film would be a bit "loose" and cause the picture to either jump or be wavy like this when it was run. I have a few older 8mm films that got ruined by family members that tried to play them on their Super 8 projectors. Ugh and Grrrr....LOL :~)
czcams.com/video/QBo0EDhjX14/video.html This is a 16mm Sound film restoration that RetroWDW did and it is not wavy/watery like this one was, but the color is not as rich as this one is.
So why did EPCOT Center drop the “Center” in 1994?
Narration low-key reminds me of John Wilson.
The characters can blink their eyes
Que bonito yo nunca eh ido ahí a ese lugar
Algún día iré ahí a conocer ese lugar
well done.... do you happen to know the months or dates of this film... i was there with my parents that year when i was in grade 4.
This is amazing!
Thanks for sharing… I don’t recall China and German sections of the park… were they replaced or am I just a terrible observer???😅
Nobody obese and requires a motorized chair.
kona1967 And children were able to walk back then too. Absolutely amazing.
Americans should be ashamed that they aren't able to walk a few miles per day.
Reminds me of line from Animal House"stupid, fat and lazy is no way to go through life, son"
It's "Fat, Drunk, and Stupid"
Nick's Picks so right, been long time since watching
I am disabled and have seizures and I am very offended by your remarks! I need motorized chair because my medication makes me tired really easily!
This was my first observation, what a stark contrast to today's populace
I wanted to see Carnival de Lumiere.
It is nice not seeing people with kool aid colored hair, nose rings and electric carts everywhere that most people don't even need.
29 Touch Screen Computers scattered around the EPCOT Park back then to make reservations on and to see how long the wait is. ROFL Now EVERYONE has their own PERSONAL computer to do this...i.e.. Smart Phone. :~) P.S. I was there in December of 1982....EPCOT was GREAT in the 1980's and just OK into the Mid 1990's. It' been BUTCHERED every year since 1994 in "my" opinion.
I'm a Florida Native and my 1st time going to Walt Disney World was in 1973 and we stayed at the Polynesian Resort for 3 days. I went several times every single year and then when Annual Passes came out, I got mine every year up until 2009. Haven't been since January of 2010. No longer the same "Disney" parks that "I" use to enjoy.
You know it is hard to believe epcot has been open for 40 years.I did not care for the park back then, But as time went on over the years Epcot made some epic changes. The rides became much better. The Food and entertainment got better as the years went on aswell. From the 80s. 90s. 2000S. Had many decades of massive improvements. Today i would not even bother, The limited guest in the park per day. You have to schudule your day with your ticket, Wait times even longer die to the new fast pass system which you have to pay for, The smoking restrictions on all the parks. Now you have to pay for parking, Hotel Guest have 0 smokinmg rooms. No smoking Areas. Increased prices to get the Middle Class and poor out of there parks. Throwing Customers out with no investigations. No more shuttle the air port to Disney Hotel Rooms.
If i missed anything let me know. Just leave a reply
Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow. (15 min city, btw).
too bad Walt up and died 10 years too early.
Vloggers. 80's version.
Hello, is it fine if I can use this in a video I am making.
Does anybody know what the song is at 8:50 ? Or any ideas of keywords I could use to search for it?
The song is " A Man and a Woman"
Fascinating footage -- but the narrator nearly put me to sleep!
@7:08 anyone have any idea how these are articulated in the eyes? They seem Really fluid and could be the firsst real example of a pseudo Art figure in the parks...
Great video but the narrator nearly put me to sleep!
How many people In this video do you think are dead today?
For the love of God stop putting your watermark on footage you do not own
They bought the source material and did the conversion so I don't mind them watermarking it
@@PriestsandParamedics I still disagree with it. Thats the same thing as buying a painting that isnt present online and putting a watermark on the scan.
@@ZiggyCashmere But that's not what you said. You said "stop putting your watermark on footage you do not own." They own it. Whether or not you or I like it, they own it and can/will do whatever they want with it and haven't asked our opinion.
This must be some kind of exaggeration. Nothing can be this modern and able to show all this. I think the tourism people there are overselling the experience.