Travel: December 2008 Archives

Internet Archive: Details: Disneyland Dream

This is the Disneyland my parents visited as young people. "In July 1956, the five-member Barstow family of Wethersfield, Connecticut, won a free trip to newly-opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California, in a nationwide contest. This 30-minute amateur documentary film tells the fabulous story of their fun-filled, dream-come-true, family travel adventure, filmed on the scene at Walt Disney's "Magic Kingdom" by Robbins Barstow." The Internet Archive has the whole film available for viewing and downloading. (Via Mark Evanier, who reports that this film has been named by the Library of Congress to the National Film Registry.)