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The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 58 – Town Hall: Davy Feiten, Part II

Davy Feiten programs the Country Bear Christmas Special.

In this Progress City Town Hall we welcome back animator and Audio-Animatronics programmer Davy Feiten for part two of our epic interview! This time we go into detail about the Country Bear Jamboree and its seasonal shows, plus more of Davy’s work on attractions such as […]

The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 57 – Town Hall: Davy Feiten, Part I

Davy Feiten hard at work programming Splash Mountain.

For April on the Progress City Town Hall we’re thrilled to welcome audio-animatronics wizard Davy Feiten! Davy started his career as an animator before coming to Imagineering to work on EPCOT Center, where he programmed American Adventure, World of Motion, Universe of Energy, and more. In […]

The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 56 – Mobility!

Rendering of EPCOT’s World of Motion by Herb Ryman, 1979

It’s fun to be free as The Progress City Radio Hour continues our 40th anniversary retrospective of EPCOT Center with a celebration of the fifth freedom – mobility! In this episode, heed the call of the open road as we talk about the development of […]

The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 55 – Town Hall: Bob Garner

Bob Garner filming documentary footage of Imagineering’s model of the traffic scene from World of Motion.

Hi all and happy 2023! We’ve been busy on the podcast front but have neglected to post them here, so I’m going to do a brief catch-up for everyone who might have missed our recent episodes.

For January’s […]

The Progress City Radio Hour – Episode 54 – Harvest!

The model for Tony Baxter’s original concept for The Land.

Merry Christmas! The Progress City Radio Hour continues our 40th anniversary celebration of EPCOT Center with a look at the pavilion which today most holds true to its original intent – The Land! We’ll look back at how the pavilion came to be, and […]