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 Meet the World, Food Rocks, and Le Visionarium.
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 this interview we discuss those experiences, as well as his work on Splash Mountain and on attractions for Disneyland Paris.
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 classic attraction World of Motion. Find out about sponsor General Motors, and their previous brushes with Disney and World’s Fairs. And take a listen to the silliest souvenir video ever made.
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 Progress City Town Hall we’re pleased to introduce you to director, producer, and writer Bob Garner! A showbiz veteran, Bob was responsible for documenting Imagineering’s work leading up to the opening of EPCOT Center. Among his many credits are the EPCOT preview center film, The Living Seas, the Captain EO preshow film, and much more. He was also the guy who put Mickey Mouse on top of Spaceship Earth, so you know you won’t want to miss this one!
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 some of the concepts which were abandoned along the way. We’ll also talk about original sponsor Kraft, and how they had a presence at World’s Fairs and with Disney long before EPCOT. We’ll look at the pavilion’s research under consultant Carl Hodges, and we’ll revisit EPCOT musical muse Bob Moline.
We’d like to take a moment at the end of the year to thank you all for following along and listening this year. The fun we’ve had doing the podcast has been a real highlight of the last couple of years and we’re so grateful for all the support you’ve given us. We hope you have a great holiday season and we’ll see you next year!
From the Progress City archives comes this collection of 33 tall tales and true from Disney history. Available in paperback, hardback, and ebook formats.
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