To give ya alittle history on Disney Imagineering- Heres alittle piece from Imagineering-A Behind the Dreams Lookk at making the magic real
To Imagineer
You won't find it in the dictionary. But any Imagineer can tell you the word is both a verb and a noun. To imagineer. To be an Imagineer. Like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Imagineering has become purely a Disney word. The name conbmines imagination with engineering to describe both what we do and who we are. Creating a name for a group whose only job is to come up with ideas to build on and then build those ideas really took some Imagineering. but that is what Walt Disney was all about. Walt Dseriously began to entertain the speark of an idea for a new kind of themed park in 1951 when he and movie art directer Harper Goff, began work on its first concept sketches. Soon afterwards, he hand-picked a small group of movie makers from his studio asking them to dedicate themeselves to the design and development of this new and unique family fun park. Little did he know then that this small group would soon grow to become a major division of his company. But then again, maybe he did know. Until this time, Walt knew little on the three-dimensional side of the entertainment fence, where fairs, amusement parks and the like could be found. But he did know movies and television. Driven by the desire to take his passion for storytelling far beyond the confines of two-dimensions he landed on the idea that visitors who stepped in to this new park should feel as though they stepped into a movie. Every inch of the place should be part of a story, as in a movie or television show. This is exactly why he enlisted the talents of a select handful of his studio people, setting them up in "secret" little offices around the lot. These were story people and visual people, animators, directors, writers, artists and set designers, a one of a kind group who could set a scene and compose a breathtaking vista. These were the people who made magic on Disney film and now they were being asked to make magic on Disney land. They began by making movies, but wound up making history.
Imagineers are the Dreamers and Doers of the Walt Disney Company their projects include
Disneyland Resort, WDW Resort, Disneyland Paris Resort, ABC Studios in Time Square, Tokoyo Disneyland, Hong Kong Disneyland and the World of Disney Stores. Imagineering has a diverse collection of architects, engineers, artists, support staff members, writers, researchers, custodians, schedulers, estimators, machinists, financiers, modle-makers, landscape designers, special effects and lighting designers, sound technicians, producers, carpenters, accountants, filmmakers, graphic designers and so on and so forth.
For all those who don't know what Imagineering is.
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