The American Adventure end montage

[Mukta]

I love the American Adventure. It is beautifully done and brings a tear to my eye everytime. While the attraction is long, I think it captures the American Spirit.

At the end, there is a montage of people. There are a few that I don't recognize. Does anyone have a list of people/scenes that appear in that montage?

Thanks

 

[zurgandfriend]

The montage covers post WW-II 1945 to post 9/11.

You can view the montage on-line if you can give me a time reference I might be able to help you as I have lived through most of that time period

 

[sweetpee_1993]

This is an excellent question. I know more of the people in the montage than ones I don't. It'd be great to have a list with a blurb of who the person is in order of appearance. I'd like to sit with my boys and make a game of naming the names & what that persons significance is. I'd love to have a list!

 

[Mukta]

I viewed it on youtube and started crying at my desk when john-john saluted JFK's coffin. Does me in everytime.

It was fuzzy, but there is an orchestra conductor in the 50s(?) and a person under the 'stop aids' sign in the 80s.

Here is a link if anyone wants to help make a list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2NrsSg9OPs

 

[Mukta]

This is how is starts

Eagle
Raising the flag at Iwo Jima
WWII ends

 

[Nemo14]

I believe the conductor is Leonard Bernstein and the woman under the AIDS sign is Elizabeth Glaser.

 

[meva]

One thing that has always puzzled me about this montage is why is Einstein featured ? Einstein is German not American, with so many great Americans to choose from why show him ?
I know that if Disney tried to make out Shakespeare was from Belgium, as an Englishman I'd be upset. Do any German visitors complain to cast members I wonder ?

 

[Captain Hank]

One thing that has always puzzled me about this montage is why is Einstein featured ? Einstein is German not American, with so many great Americans to choose from why show him ?
I know that if Disney tried to make out Shakespeare was from Belgium, as an Englishman I'd be upset. Do any German visitors complain to cast members I wonder ?

While he was not born in the U.S., he did become a naturalized citizen later in life.

 

[zurgandfriend]

One thing that has always puzzled me about this montage is why is Einstein featured ? Einstein is German not American, with so many great Americans to choose from why show him ?
I know that if Disney tried to make out Shakespeare was from Belgium, as an Englishman I'd be upset. Do any German visitors complain to cast members I wonder ?

Einstein came to America to escape Hitler when he came to power. At the start of WWII in Europe Einstein had a private meeting with President Roosevelt where they discussed Einstein's theory of an atomic bomb. Soon after the Manhattan Project (to build a bomb before Germany) began. I don't want to start a debate on nuclear bombs or power, this is not the forum but it was an important event in American history. He also might be included because of Walt's love of technology.

 

[Donfan]

He also worked at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and lived in the United States longer than he lived in any other single country.

 

[Nemo14]

I love the American Adventure. It is beautifully done and brings a tear to my eye everytime. While the attraction is long, I think it captures the American Spirit.

At the end, there is a montage of people. There are a few that I don't recognize. Does anyone have a list of people/scenes that appear in that montage?

Thanks

We were there Saturday and when I saw this sign I immediately thought of this thread.

 

[wild01ride]

Einstein

As others have touched on, I think that Einstein is included because of the contributions that he made to technology which helped progress in the U.S.

When you consider the entire attraction, a lot of the theme of it is that there are so many nationalities and cultures that contributed to the development of the U.S. (Carnegie Steel and "The Scots", etc.)

EDIT: After somer fact-checking, John Muir was also a Scottish-born American Naturalist. According to the segment of AA, he and Teddy Roosevelt are resonsible for creating the National Park system in the U.S.
I've visited Muir Forest ("John Muir Wilderness") in CA where there are redwoods/sequoia's that are just unbelievable (as a side note )!

 

[ChrisFL]

Eagle
Iwo Jima
"War Over"
WWII Kiss
(woman)
Rosa Parks
Jackie Robinson
(man with flags)
(man waving)
Marilyn Monroe
Johnny Carson
Lucille Ball?
Walt Disney and Tinkerbell
Albert Einstein
Chuck Yeager?
Jonas Salk/ Polio Vaccine
(Female Golfer)
(Man at desk)
Arthur Fiedler??
Dean Martin?
Louie Armstrong
Aretha Franklin?
Elvis Presley
John F. Kennedy
JFK Jr.
Martin Luther King
Apollo 11 Mission
Walter Cronkite
Eagle
(Guy with Harmonica at woodstock)?
Grapes Boycott
Alex Haley
Vietnam War
Janis Joplin?
Sandra Day O'Connor?
George Lucas
Steve Jobs
Challenger Astronauts
Berlin Wall
(man on right)
Run DMC
Willie Nelson
Aids Activists
Peter Jennings
WTC
Firemen at WTC
Soldiers/Police
Michelle Kwan
Tiger Woods
Presidents Clinton and Bush Sr.
Oprah
Frank Gehry
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Yo yo Ma?
Mohammad Ali
Di.ck Hoyt and son, Rick Hoyt
Lance Armstrong
Olympic Team?
Eagle
Kids
Statue of Liberty

 

[Jerm]

At the end, there is a montage of people. There are a few that I don't recognize. Does anyone have a list of people/scenes that appear in that montage?

Thanks

You may not know everyone in the montage, but you should know where it came from. When they last updated AA they added parts of the montage from Golden Dreams at DCA to it, that is why some of them are just a bit odd on a U.S. scale but fit perfect on a Ca scale.

 

[joel_maxwell]

excellent thread. Thanks to all those who have participated and answered. Very interesting list. I had forgotten a few of those.

 

[Adventure]

The man pushing his son in the wheelchair is _____D i c k___ Hoyt. His son is Rick Hoyt. They have been in the Boston marathon for years. I remember ___D i c k_____ saying he would never have been able to complete the race but it was a dream of his son to do it.
I look for them during the race every year. When I first saw them at American Adventure I clapped because they are familiar faces in this part of the country. I don't think a lot of people recognize them.

 

[ChrisFL]

The man pushing his son in the wheelchair is _____D i c k___ Hoyt. His son is Rick Hoyt. They have been in the Boston marathon for years. I remember ___D i c k_____ saying he would never have been able to complete the race but it was a dream of his son to do it.
I look for them during the race every year. When I first saw them at American Adventure I clapped because they are familiar faces in this part of the country. I don't think a lot of people recognize them.

Thanks, I updated my list.

Anyone else who has fixes, there's several that I just guessed at but didn't know the answer to.

 

[ajt5027]

I know that right before the drop the rope to go up the escalators, on the wall to your right is a sign explaining the show and has a list of all the people in the show.

Also (not trying to change the subject) but all of the paintings in the main hall have Imagineers names on them and dated 1982. I asked a CM if the Imagineers were commissioned to do these paintings for the opening and he said yes. I thought that was pretty cool.

 

[ChrisFL]

I know that right before the drop the rope to go up the escalators, on the wall to your right is a sign explaining the show and has a list of all the people in the show.

Ya know, looking back on the previous page, someone just posted a small pic and I went right past it and tried to examine the film on youtube for 30 mins....oh well, fun times.