Good morning on this lovely fall Saturday! (...at least where I am, YMMV.)
25 minute for me yesterday (400/520) and team totals are 6,556 minutes and 56%!!
From http://www.thisdayindisneyhistory.com/ for 10/23/1919 -
Robbins Wolcott Barstow Jr. is born in Woodstock, Vermont (though he will grow up in Hartford). An amateur filmmaker (starting at the age of 12), his 30-minute 16mm film
Disneyland Dream (shot in July 1956) was born of a nationwide contest. In 1956, the 3M Company offered free trips to Disneyland to the 25 families who best expressed why they loved Scotch Tape and Barstow's youngest son Danny was one of the winners.
"I first showed the home-edited version of Disneyland Dream to a gathering of neighborhood families and friends, projected on a sheet attached to the side of our house in Wethersfield (CT), with my 16mm movie projector set up in our backyard, on Labor Day weekend, 1956, with me providing on-the-spot narration as the film went along. It proved to be an immediate favorite and became very popular. Over the years, I received dozens of requests to show it to community groups, PTAs, schools, church and other social groups, extending throughout the state, as well as to relatives and at family gatherings. Finally, in 1995, after nearly 40 years, I had the film transferred to VHS Video, for wider distribution, and I recorded the narration on tape. I was then able to have it broadcast over our local Wethersfield Public Access Community Television Channel. When I heard that the Library of Congress was interested in adding home movies to their collections, I sent Dr. James H. Billington, the distinguished Librarian of Congress, a copy of Disneyland Dream, along with a dozen other home movies which I had produced with our family over a period of some 70 years." -Robbins Barstow
Here is that video:
https://www.facebook.com/TheCenterf...ins-barstow-disneyland-dream/983633191974169/