![]() As John and James finish talking, John tells talks about owning "one of those new talking machines", after which, the family’s grandmother appears on the left room, having fallen asleep while listening to the phonograph. John comments that she is going to be the star of the upcoming World's Fair, and that James better put the Stereoscope away before his mother finds it. James is watching Little Egypt dancing the "Hootchie-Cootchie". Shortly after, the family's son, James, begins to talk from the right room and is scolded for using his father’s Stereoscope without permission. John initially denies that it is about to rain as his lumbago hasn't acted up, but is immediately proven wrong. ![]() She also shows her new "wash-day marvel" that helps her do laundry in five hours, instead of two days, and she needs to get the laundry off the line before it starts raining. The two discuss how Thomas Edison is working on an idea for "snap-on electric lights", to which Sarah comments "no more kerosene, no more gas" will be needed to illuminate rooms. After he shows off the new technology, he calls to his wife, Sarah, who is ironing in the room to John's right. He mentions that two brothers in North Carolina are working on a "flying contraption" but comments it will never work, followed by mentions of the new inventions and technological achievements of the day. The father of the family, John, is sitting on a wooden rocking chair in his home, his dog, Rover, lying on the floor. The first act is set on Valentine’s Day, "right around the turn of the century". Regarded as the longest-running stage show in American theater history, the theater then begins to rotate for each act to the theme song " There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" by the Sherman Brothers.Īct 1: Turn of the Century (1900s) The attraction begins with a brief introduction about Walt Disney's idea for the attraction's debut at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair and how he always had a passion for progress. It is also the oldest attraction at Walt Disney World to have been touched by Walt Disney. It is one of the oldest attractions in the Walt Disney World Resort. The Carousel of Progress holds the record as the longest-running stage show in the history of American theater. To keep it current with the times, the attraction has been updated five times (in 1967, 1975, 1981, 1985, and 1993), and has had two theme songs, both written by the Sherman Brothers, Disney's Academy Award-winning songwriting team. Steeped in both nostalgia and (in the past) futurism, the attraction's premise is an exploration of the joys of living through the advent of electricity and other technological advances during the 20th century via a "typical" American family. It was replaced in Disneyland by America Sings in 1974, and reopened in its present home in the Magic Kingdom in 1975. Created by Walt Disney and WED Enterprises as the prime feature of the General Electric (GE) Pavilion for the 1964 New York World's Fair, the attraction was moved to Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California as Carousel of Progress, and remained there from 1967 until 1973. Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress is a rotating theater audio-animatronic stage show attraction in Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida just outside of Orlando, Florida. " There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" by the Sherman Brothersġ964–1965 New York World's Fair (1964-1965)
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