Walt Disney Productions' A Day at Disneyland (1982)

This promotional film was released in 1982 for the brand new home video rental market. It captures the park the way it was and many of the attractions as they were. It also focuses on details seldom seen in Disney park videos. Some of these places and attractions no longer exist. This is a historic time capsule of what Disneyland was like before the Eisner regime took over and Walt’s family was still running it. It was just a mom and pop theme park and not what we think of as Disney today.

Everything in the park is explored from rides, attractions, restaurants and gift shops with the exception of Fantasyland, which was going through a major remodel at the time. There’s a section on the behind the scenes of the park’s history that covers some of that instead. The purpose of this video was to show families all that Disneyland had to offer so they’d want to plan a family vacation there.

Original release date June 1982

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