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A shocking Disneyland advisory

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  Disneyland    Posted date:  December 28, 2014  |  2 Comments


When Disneyland—the first episode of what the world would later come to think of as The Wonderful World of Disney— premiered on October 27, 1954, no one thought to warn audiences of the racially insensitive content to come, such as Tinkerbell hopping around pretending to be Native American and footage of Uncle Remus from Song of the South.

But when it was rebroadcast last Sunday on TCM, an advisory was deemed necessary.

Here are the shocking sentences that appeared at the beginning of the program.

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Were you as shocked as I was? And I don’t mean by existence of the apology itself. What I mean is … well …

Did you “accep” their apology?

Two typos, TCM? Really?

1964 Disneyland brochure: See what you missed by being born too late?

Posted by: Scott    Tags:  Disneyland    Posted date:  April 7, 2012  |  No comment


Irene uncovered a 1964 Disneyland brochure that makes me wish I’d been able to get there back when I was nine years old. Seems like there’ve been a few changes since then …

The artifact’s only a single sheet of paper, folded in thirds, and here’s how the cover looks.

Once you open it up, you see this map inside. (more…)

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