1988/89 WDW Home Movie

IWantMyMagicBand · Sep 15, 2014

So, in the age where everything is on YouTube and we wonder why people don't just put down the camera and enjoy the holiday.... Well, I'm so glad my dad videoed every single thing we did. Spent last night watching our 1989 home movie (also have 1988 but haven't gone through it yet). Filmed on a briefcase sized camera. I'm going to try and upload the whole thing but need to get it transferred first so could be a few days. Some highlights were:
Magic Kingdom:
Shows/Meet and Greets - Clap your Hands on the Castle stage with Robin Hood/Friar Tuck/Prince John/Maid Marion etc.
A ride about Magnificent Men in their flying machine - I think Buzz must have taken over this as I weirdly recognised the tunnel where you felt like you were going hyperspeed.
Walking through pretty much empty walkways, definitely low season.
The shop windows were all Ariel.
Main Street Transportation ran all day and our on ride video shows just how green the hub was.
The parade.
On ride Thunder Mountain.

Epcot:
Inside Wonders of Life
Full on ride Horizons
World of Motion
Random Meet and greets - lovely section of Mickey sat on the floor playing cars with a little boy
Inside The Living Seas
Journey into Imagination (there could be the upstairs too but I ducked out the room for a bit)

MGM:
It is sooooo empty without the hat!
Queue and on ride Movie Ride
A show of Hollywood Musicals - Minnie is the lady in the tutti fruity hat and also In the money. Goofy can't dance, won't do it. It amazed me who the supporting cast dancers were actually dancers, and Minnie was such a mover - I noticed she had different shoes. My favourite bit was the star of the show - special guest Roger Rabbit!
The dinosaur was in the lake.
Full show of Indiana Jones - do they still do audience participation? There were 10 or so guests taken and dressed as extras.

River Country:
Lots of footage of the bottomless rock slide pools, the donut waterslide, the normal slide, the zip line, the zoo.

Driving up I-drive and going to Chilis

Boardwalk and Baseball:
Swing ride, the wooden roller coaster, enterprise, tilt o whirl.

That's just what I watched - still need to finish it but my gosh it was a brilliantly nostalgic video. Thankfully there is not too much of me aged 12, my 5 year old said "is that you with the fluffy hair?" How did we cope without straighteners lol. My dad was a year younger than me and looks incredibly like Ned Flanders!

Redsky89 · Sep 15, 2014

That home video is as old as I am

Minthorne · Sep 15, 2014

88 - the year I graduated High School. My 3rd WDW trip was 89. I'm exited to see this!!

Clamman73 · Sep 15, 2014

What time of year was it? I think I was there later August staying at GF...ah, that new Deluxe hotel smell...waiting to see someone's home videos from back then and see myself in the background.

IWantMyMagicBand · Sep 15, 2014

We went in October and there was not a Halloween decoration in sight! It really is a gem. I just stood watching a while then blurted out "This is YouTube Gold!!!!!" My netbook does not have a CD drive so waiting for dad to transfer it to a memory stick and I can upload.

ShookieJones · Sep 15, 2014

Awesome. I'm hoping my kids will appreciate the time I spent living through the viewfinder when they were younger.

I still take a few photos, but the video camera hasn't made the trip in the last two years.

Let us know when it's up.

75disney · Sep 15, 2014

Clamman73 said:
What time of year was it? I think I was there later August staying at GF...ah, that new Deluxe hotel smell...waiting to see someone's home videos from back then and see myself in the background.

I was fortunate to go twice in 1988; we stayed in GF in early August. We went once in 1989 and we stayed in the GF in late August. It was one of my best trips ever! Can't wait to see the video and bring back those memories!

hth1917 · Sep 15, 2014

That's golden-age footage you've got there. I grew up in Central Florida and had just started college in 1989. A visit to WDW in that year would have meant no Tower of Terror yet, but in almost every other respect the experience would have been superior to what it is now. So many great attractions that were open then have been lost. And an intact Future World? Heaven.

IWantMyMagicBand said:
A ride about Magnificent Men in their flying machine - I think Buzz must have taken over this as I weirdly recognised the tunnel where you felt like you were going hyperspeed.

That was Delta Dreamflight. It opened in June of 1989 in the building that was previously the home of If You Had Wings, and which is currently occupied by Buzz Lightyear.

HatboxGhost · Sep 15, 2014

Please post this as soon as you can. I m a big fan of the Extinct Attractions type old school videos and would love to see it.

IWantMyMagicBand · Sep 15, 2014

We've managed to convert the video onto an external hard drive, both 1988 and 1989. What's the best way to get them onto here? And the quickest? They are both a couple hours of pure nostalgic heaven. Should I upload to youtube and post link or can I do it directly onto here? And how would I edit the 1988 one (it has our mini cruise to the Bahamas on Carnival Cruises and we hit a hurricane but am sure you wouldn't want to see it lol). 1989 is pure Orlando parks.

IWantMyMagicBand · Sep 15, 2014

hth1917 said:
That was Delta Dreamflight. It opened in June of 1989 in the building that was previously the home of If You Had Wings, and which is currently occupied by Buzz Lightyear.

Which means the 1988 one probably has If you had wings on it! Think I need to go through 1988 but 1989 is good to go when I figure out how to get it on here lol.

IWantMyMagicBand · Sep 15, 2014

I also have 1991.

hth1917 · Sep 15, 2014

IWantMyMagicBand said:
Which means the 1988 one probably has If you had wings on it!

1988 would actually be If You Could Fly--basically the same ride, but with different music and all Eastern Airlines references removed.

IWantMyMagicBand · Sep 15, 2014

Clamman73 said:
What time of year was it? I think I was there later August staying at GF...ah, that new Deluxe hotel smell...waiting to see someone's home videos from back then and see myself in the background.

Do you know, a while back I came up with a global photoshare, or even one on here, where we post crowd photos of in park with the date and time. If you were there you can try and spot yourself. I called the idea "FindMe". Maybe we can get that going

Master Yoda · Sep 15, 2014

I would think that uploading them to YouTube would be the easiest way to share them.

I am sure that @marni1971 and a few other might be interested in getting the raw files as well. That could probably be done with something like dropbox.