‘Here You Leave Today and Enter the World of Yesterday, Tomorrow and Fantasy’
Plaque at the entrance to Disneyland.
On July 17th 1955 the first Disney theme park opened in Anaheim, California. Today there are over ten Disney theme parks open around the world that let in millions of visitors through their doors each day. The Spoken Word repository has a small but interesting collection of media that bears testament to ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’. The first is a programme looking at the reason why and how tourism first evolved and the reasons that Walt Disney first thought that the United States needed the wholesome Disneyland. The second is a news programme that explores the new Disneyland that has recently opened in Hong Kong and how the Chinese people have reacted to such a place.
