The Disney Monorail
Imagineering the Highway in the Sky
Published on 15. September 2020
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-1-4847-3767-5 (ISBN)
Description
Deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers a lavish visual celebration of one of Disney's most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail.
Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon. But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future. In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications.
In The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky, readers will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt's prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere. Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world.
Through a lively and succinct narrative and a stunning collection of unique historical photographs and rare concept and development art (much of it never before published) readers will be transported into a future where yesterday's dreams are tomorrow's realities!
Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: - Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks - Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks - One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe - Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks - Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century - Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food - Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai - The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic - Poster Art of the Disney Parks
Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon. But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future. In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications.
In The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky, readers will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt's prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere. Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world.
Through a lively and succinct narrative and a stunning collection of unique historical photographs and rare concept and development art (much of it never before published) readers will be transported into a future where yesterday's dreams are tomorrow's realities!
Searching for that perfect gift for the Disney theme park fan in your life? Explore more archival-quality books from Disney Editions: - Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks - Walt Disney's Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks - One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe - Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks - Yesterday's Tomorrow: Disney's Magical Mid-Century - Eat Like Walt: The Wonderful World of Disney Food - Maps of the Disney Parks: Charting 60 Years from California to Shanghai - The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic - Poster Art of the Disney Parks
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
US School Grade: Seventh Grade and over, Interest Age: From 12 years
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 292 mm
Width: 239 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
1494 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4847-3767-5 (9781484737675)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Jeff Kurtti