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WED florida project EPCOT and Walt Disney World master planning board.

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WED florida project EPCOT and Walt Disney World master planning board.
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(WED, 1967) A 34 x 23 in. photo mounted on board featuring the early planning stages of Walt Disney World and EPCOT as originally planned by Walt Disney. After the World’s Fair, Disney knew his far reaching goals could not be contained in his small Anaheim property and new territory was needed. After much secrecy, Disney’s Florida “land-grab” was made public and master planning went into full swing. At the WED offices in Glendale, California, a “Florida War Room” was erected. Here, master planning took place for what became e known as “The Florida Project”. Imagineers such as Marvin Davis, John Hench, Joe Potter, Marty Sklar and Walt himself tirelessly used this room to translate one man’s fanciful notion into a sprawling reality. This WED board room was lined with huge drawings and high altitude photographs to offer the designers a proper perspective on their project. Walt’s final on-screen pitch, “The EPCOT Film” was shot in a recreation of this planning office using actual maps and drawings from the room itself. Walt intriguingly motioned to the towering maps and photographs around him to explain his far-reaching plans. This photo mosaic is from that war room as planning progressed shortly after Disney’s death and features master planning drawings laid over high altitude photographs of the whole Disney World property. At this stage, EPCOT was still very much an actual city of tomorrow, complete with residential green belts and a high-volume airport of the future. The Magic Kingdom “theme park” is present and takes up a tiny portion of the North-West corner of the property. The piece is still in its original studio wood frame. A very rare artifact from the offices of WED Enterprises in Glendale, California. Acquired from the estate of Imagineering President, Mel Melton. In fine condition. Unexamined out of frame.