Magic Highway, U.S.A. (1958)

No copyright infringement is intended with this, or any other video I upload. The purpose of uploading this video is for the viewing pleasure for those that watch it.
This episode is called "Magic Highway, U.S.A.".
This episode from 1958 mostly looks back at the history of roads and travel in America, from the time that America was discovered right up through the creation of the super highways in the 1950s. It shows how slow progress was back when pioneers such as Daniel Boone moved west in the 19th century, how the railroad nearly sounded the deathnell of the highway, and how the creation of the automobile and it's popularity just after the dawn of the 20th century changed things.
There's also a feature of how crowded the roads were getting, even then, and how bad it was forecast to be by the mid 1970s (they had no idea how right they would prove to be on this front), but there also were, in the Walt Disney tradition of ideas, thoughts about what could happen in the future, in relation to cars, roads, and travel that, fortunately would not, or have not come to pass. And we see just how a highway, or any paved road was created back then.
A special note. The vast majority of this episode was narrated by Marvin Miller, who had a long voice-over acting career, which included roles on numerous cartoons, including voicing Aquaman in the Aquaman Filmation series in 1967 and narrating the official highlight films for the Indianapolis 500 in both 1975 and '76, among many other things he voiced over.
All rights and credits go to the Walt Disney Company and those that created the video and the audio , including the music used in the program. That includes the Disney Channel, which was the original source material in the video, as it came from the Vault Disney block they had until 2002. The opening credits are the 1970s opening credits, which I used for every episode from this point forward.
If there are any others who I'm forgetting, please let me know so I can add them to the list of those to credit.
There's a chance that this video will be taken down, not allowed up, or I'll be asked to take it down. If I'm asked to, I willl take it down.

[@JeevesReturns]

When I was a kid ( mid 60's) this was THE Sunday night program to watch.

[@BadWebDiver]

Amen.

[@hehmtube]

Ya, and when the ending music came on, you were filled with a sense of dread because you knew that was one of the last relaxing moments you would have, because SCHOOL was the next day.

[@TheBandit7613]

@@hehmtube yeah, I remember the same thing. This was before Disney lost their minds...

[@marygreenfield528]

After watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins.

@Liberty Tree That is awesome!!

[@jorgecubria]

I had wished for 60 years to watch this program again. It's a sheer elation. I adore you uncle Walt.

[@joehovanec1985]

I can't wait till 1975. The future looks so futuristic.

[@broderickwallis25]

Hope and uncle Walt... A beautiful dream... literal Hypnosis

[@howardcitizen2471]

It's a good thing the interstates started in 1956, because they could never be built today.

[@michaeltaylor1603]

Hear we are 6 almost 70 years later...gotta rebuild some "stuff" LOL!

[@sterlinsilver]

The amount of happiness that final segment brings me is immeasurable...

[@stainlesssteelfox1]

Well, some of the ideas from the future section are accurate. Self driving cars. Cameras for rear and side views. Microwave radar for traffic sensing. Shipping containers that move between truck, train, ship and even aircraft without being unloaded. Larger, simplified and illuminated signage.

[@russellbeyers1646]

Incredible visions of the future from a '58 perspective...classic episode!

[@drawwing]

And this is why KZbin is still better than Disney Plus. I was really hoping episodes like this were going to be on the service. Oh well, stick to my bootleg dvds and to this amazing playlist.

[@timdub70]

The "future" roads and cars are part Jetsons, part 1939 World's Fair Futurama, and part TV show set in the year 3000 Futurama.

[@cuervosbc1518]

Watching in 2020 and enjoying as I did in the 70s.

[@matthew2442]

Classic Disney is fantastic. Thank you for posting this.

[@marcblack1]

Amazing as to how much they got right back then..

[@keyboardwarrior656]

Excellent !!!

[@petervitti9]

When I was a kid, my dad drove a 1962 ford ranch wagon. It had a big rust hole in the floor. Us kids would fight to sit near the door near it. So we could watch the highway.

[@h5mind373]

I was born and raised in CA in the 1960s, back when it seemed the whole country was moving there for opportunities. We saw the building of I-80 and I-5 through the area. My brother used to ride his minibike up miles of the right of way before it was paved and opened to the public.

[@kellyluck1626]

Man, I miss the future.

[@kernals12]

41:00 those 3 predictions were correct, we do have navigation systems that tell us if there's traffic head, he have GPS that tells us the speed limit, and we have back up cameras

[@williedaniels3882]

1958 was before the US Interstate system was even all connected. I remember a 20 mile stretch of I-94 in MN was still not done in 1968! (From Barnesville to Moorhead) We had to drive 5 miles north to get to SR 10 to get to Moorhead & to my college!

[@angelsaltamontes7336]

The MISSILE at (3:55) looks like MY kind of ride!

[@mattbrewster8051]

As usual, Ward displays pure genius! Only he could find humor in such a dry subject. I found the final segment eerily prescient in its depiction of SELF-DRIVING CARS! Epcot fans will recall some of this material played in Horizons

[@johnfranklin5277]

Ward?? You mean Walt.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

@@johnfranklin5277 - I think that Matt was referring to Ward Kimball, one of Disney's "Nine Old Men" animators, and a Disney Legend. He was also an Imagineer.

[@BECREUL]

If you look at this if only from a visionary standpoint, what a fun adventure for the imagination! I see all the comments about how not much has changed and how crappy things really are, but this allows us for a brief period of time to imagine how things could be, and how fun it would be if they really were. Yes the real world sucks, but I think Mr. Disney was trying to show us how wonderful the world could be if we all used our imaginations a little more.

[@sillygoose2508]

If you fit in as for a visionary might be a little scary there's been some others that were visionary and it never seems to work out when it comes down to it he had some very disheartening beliefs make no mistake about it not someone that should be put on a pedestal

[@michaeltaylor1603]

Ha Ha Ha! You're sure right! I do have a friend that builds freeways, roads & bridges. You CAN'T speed up how long it takes to cure concrete though. That's a lot of the hold up on why it takes sooooo long. You could hurry it up, but, like the (recent) condo in Florida...???!!!!!

[@saxonaudio]

This is nuts.

[@josevelez7246]

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY Sesame Street

[@avg1712]

Before Disney sold out, these were quality shows where you didn’t have to worry about rudeness, politics, or nudity. Something the whole family could watch

[@Crimson_Snake1]

Unfortunately those times have changed. As has the world itself.

[@MerleOberon]

If you had a color TV in the 60s, you had lots of friends.

[@armastat]

if you had anything bigger than 17" u had lots of friends as well

[@armastat]

@ yeah I saw the Moon Landing on like a 14" B/W with roll in it. Never will forget it.

[@robertvillarreal4525]

‘member seeing McHale’s Navy & The Monkees at a kid friend’s home. In Living Color. It was spectacular! Talk about a little kid getting high. Those colors did it.

[@armastat]

@@robertvillarreal4525 If I remember correctly my first color programs was 'The Invaders .. A Quinn Martin Production", then Lost in space, the Flintstones, Stingray and of course all the soap operas my mom watched during the day.

[@cheekymonkey444]

My uncle was the first in the family to have a color TV in 1962. Sunday nights the whole family watched TV while the men were in the basement shooting pool and drinking beer.

[@DanaTheInsane]

In the words of Crow T Robot, "That's our old future!"

[@NumberSixAtTheVillage]

And this reply is my old future!😆

[@stephenwhited1833]

This was made 63 years ago and it is amazing how they got the roads and cars of the future right. The radar to warn of other cars the rear view camera and all. Quite amazing

[@cjs83172]

While some of the car concepts seen were absurd, it is amazing how much they were able to foresee, even in 1958. Granted, some of that, especially the roads, were already put into place, either as already existing roads or through the planning of the Interstate Highway System (which believe it or not, wasn't officially competed until a few years ago when I-95 was completed), but it was somewhat remarkable how much they actually got right, especially when it came to how badly our roads would be clogged with traffic.

[@tomowens7499]

man i miss this kind of optimism!

[@joeford860]

Thanks for the video it brings back memories of when I was a kid.

[@johnnyhawkins43]

I've never seen this before but I like it!!!!!!

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

31:08 That is the Garfield Park elevated, and the highway that was built here made the line get removed. Chicago Aurora and Elgin inteurban cars took this line into Chicago. Because this line was removed, the interurban lost it's way to Chicago, and stopped running in 1957. Often highways are purposely built on top of interurban lines.

[@zaqvoir608]

i am still waiting to move into my Monsanto House of the Future ….

[@joeford860]

Any day now.

[@hardworker5588]

@ZV oh it's much worse than that. Go watch 2001 and realize all of that could've been reality if extremists in the environmental movement didn't hold all the power in western 1st world nations. Remember the Concorde? Welcome to going backwards on our journey into the new dark age

[@tse90723]

Or a Future home!

[@392nightrunner]

A new species...the roadhog, is alive and well today. We are up to 279.6 million cars as of 2019

[@MsDisneylandlover]

walt disnery was always thinking ahead

[@epcotman32]

Really we are lost without him.

[@hardworker5588]

@@epcotman32 - our current overlord is the inventor of the internet: Al Gore. Author of 74 books (really, look it up), all of them anti-progress, anti-science, anti-car and Anti-America.

[@OnRock19]

Wow the ideas for the future were pretty amazing, i wonder when will we actually reach that level

[@DartLuke]

TranceMood2043 building of more highways isn't future. Normal public transport system is future.

[@williamcrowe2576]

Would you like the long answer or the short? Either way, you're in for a disappointment.

[@Wig4]

The Ford pavillion ride in 1964, included the primeval time scene with the animatronic dinosaurs. They moved to Disneyland as well, as 2nd scene of the diorama (Disneyland railroad) No visitor in Disneyland suspects this to be a former "FORD" feature ;-)

[@mydix2small859]

at 4:00 " just driving along, towing my Newk "....lol.

[@superluminal89]

In 1958, Disney conceives a nuclear powered tunneling machine @42:00 In 1971, US Patent 3693731 A is granted.

[@Vincent_Sullivan]

Tom Swift Jr. invented his "Atomic Earth Blaster" tunnel boring machine in 1954 according to the copyright date on the book!

[@BadWebDiver]

Anyone else notice the smoke coming from the stovepipe hat? LOL!

[@Vincent_Sullivan]

Yup! I thought that was pretty funny too!

[@MsDisneylandlover]

i wish they put all of these on dvds

[@compukatz]

Fantastic video! Thanks for posting it.

[@JewelRiders]

10:00 filmed at Disneyland (oh, memories of pouring coffee at Market)

[@loniedavis1167]

NEVER SAW THIS ! THANK YOU

[@Zombiesnyder13]

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We KEEP MOVING FORWARD, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths" - Walt Disney He would certainly be angry if sees the current state of his company

[@joey_outdoors]

I'm looking for a 50s-60's episode where they show bears in nature. It's in the recesses of my childhood memory, watching it on TV in the 80s or 90s but I can't remember. All I know is that it was from Disney and there was a narrator and it had that iconic 50s-60s music and the real life bears were getting into mischief.

[@Wig4]

The 1939 Ford pavillion (NON Disney) , was very much the original predecessor of the Epcot 'Teast Track" ... ;-) Disney did a LOT of attraction concepts collection work, from World exhibitions all over. Google on 'pictures' with ... /ny1939-ford.gif ... and see the first picture. KZbin does block url insertions)

[@primusvsunicron1]

Walt predicted the smart car

[@Karudzik]

funny how they got to this vision 60 years after invention of car, we are now 60 years from this visions...

[@nedrockenboom2572]

The Rear view Camera cam sure today :D

[@schuylerjohnson2696]

Walt Disney World has huge chutes going to and from all areas of the park whereby the trash is shot through to one central huge microwave machine that incinerates it down to a tiny pile of ash, they thus dispose of a huge amount of garbage very cleanly and efficiently.

[@nodlon20]

+Schuyler Johnson Was there any smoke or fumes as a by product or were those incinerated, too?? That's interesting!

[@392nightrunner]

Sounds like the death star

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

17:34

[@Wig4]

Walt Disney actually would never have been asked to deliver attraction products to corporate companies in 1964, if he had not been a partner in the USA pavillion in 1958 !... The different corporate companies were simple exhibitors there, and meeting each other "on the floor" was "natural". Ford Motor company sponsored the "America the beautiful" film in 1958 ! It started running at Disneyland, only in 1960.

[@saeedashtiani1968]

38:48 what a vision

[@jamesatkins5676]

Autopia by Honda at Disneyland brought me here! 🚙 🚙 🚙

[@Government-Psyop]

this future is so much cooler

[@JackF99]

Nice post- thanks. Pretty much nothing predicted in the last 9 minute segment has come true in any significant way. Well we did get rear view cameras...

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

beloog99 - We also got radar-based adaptive cruise control!

[@Wig4]

Look at 44:35 - 44:38, image corner right under. There you see shortly a representation of the Brussels worldfair's ATOMIUM. Quite some of the other structures in the film also are reminicent to actual structures from the 1958 Brussels world fair, making up his tribute in this way. It's easy to understand. Disney was actually at the fair, delivering a circlevision film for the USA pavillion. That very same production (America the Beautiful) continued it's life in Disneyland & WDW (upgraded)

[@samuelruggieri2117]

17:34 Dammit! Somebody tried to rush past the #sunrail train again. So many things they got right now and so many things are now just flights of fancy.

[@Wig4]

(continued) When showing in Disneyland, suddenly Ford is absent, and Bell Telephone is sponsor. However, at the 1964 fair, Ford commissions Disney again. The Disney ride there (Magic Skyway) was actually, however, NOT a complete Disney concept, but a remake of the very similar Ford ride in 1939 ... where however, all cars "on track" of the spectacular ride were.... chauffeur driven ! ;-)

[@MsDisneylandlover]

can we go back to these times far as tv and only tv..

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

At 42:15, the cantilevered skyway is a reality in Colorado on I-70.

[@BGF_276HUNTERSPO8NTSF]

Great memories....................

[@donovandelaney3171]

Some of these highway technologies have yet to be created. They’re coming.

[@saeedashtiani1968]

3:17 these 10 seconds got a dangerous curve road ticket.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Sped up video.

[@nwharbes]

We do have some of the future things they are talking about

[@deangmoxon]

Thanks to whoever.

[@damianstellabott1952]

10:04 is Main St at Disneyland.

[@christopherleefe7770]

I managed to catch a part of the animated film clip of Magic Highway USA from the Horizons ride at the time it was still operational and yes I still miss the Disney Channel a lot and hope they bring some of these programs to dvd soon

[@disneyfan85]

That narrator also narrates "Sleeping Beauty". He also narrated, for UPA, "Gerald McBoing-Boing".

[@cjs83172]

As well as the official films from the 1975 and 1976 Indianapolis 500s. He also voiced Aquaman in the 1967 Filmation series.

[@openmind1966]

I love the idea of what a car was supposed to look like in 1975. It didn't really progress much from that of 1958, outside of looking different. Although visionary, really nothing really changed much since 1958 in the forms of roads and highways. In fact we still have some of the old bridges that were built either before, or in 1958, and unfortunately some of our roads today are as bumpy, and damaging as those seen in the film in the turn of the century. And as I remember in Maine, the last concrete highways in that state were pulled up in 2008, surprising they would be used even into the 21st century. So while it is good to be a visionary one thing is certain, that one really has to think of what is real and what will always be a dream...

[@cjs83172]

And some of those old bridges still in use include those on I-5 going from Downtown L.A. to the L.A/Orange County line that are just now being replaced with the reconstruction of that part of I-5.

[@Dovaz921]

remember, the real world is all about money and we are all going to die in a wasteland on this rock. there is no great big beautiful tomorrow.

[@fuzzywzhe]

*"remember, the real world is all about money and we are all going to die in a wasteland on this rock. there is no great big beautiful tomorrow."* ... he said on his global information network in which he could learn literally anything, and in which he could talk to literally anybody on the planet with, at virtually no cost.. Do you have any concept of what it was like to live in 1700, even as a KING? Much less a peasant? This is the great big beautiful tomorrow, and it's a pity you don't recognize it for the wonder that it is.

[@heru-deshet359]

Gamers. What do you expect?

[@daviewz9335]

Yeah I have to give it to fuzzywzhe The Gamer Dragon. Remember, there is a lot humans can do. Even with the confines of corporate and institutional greed. We just need to *keep moving forward.* Plus, you sound like the bad guy from the _Tomorrowland (2015)_ movie.

[@BGF_276HUNTERSPO8NTSF]

LOVE THE MUSICAL NUMBERS

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

One of my favorites is "Nation On Wheels" at 3:08. It actually works great heard through the car stereo on a crowded, fast-moving freeway at 70-75 mph! You can find the soundtrack version on KZbin without narration.

[@glennferrell2902]

Any idea where I can get this in DVD ? (Perfect gift for my son -- who works for Waymo :)

[@erickamekonapeper4007]

31:08 🥺 Cancer Batman!! I can see the asbestos clouds in all the dust 🥲🖖🏼🇺🇸

[@mgibbs88]

42:25 it's funny that they are actually advocating urban sprawl.

[@angelsaltamontes7336]

"Liberals" are aggressive, and/but MANIPULATIVE bee-otches. Glad to be unhappy, as a lyricist wrote, but demanding---as the petulant children they never stopped being---their way. And one other, last thing that's also the FIRST thing about them: WHATEVER the topic, DAMNED is anyone for what they do OR WGAT THEY DON'T. -----Right along with this first/last comes first (a)/ last (a): Whatever the issue, if a "liberal"*does the SAME THING, it's HAILED by the liars of "news", the SUSPICIOUSLY WEALTHY faces of P.C."non-profits", the furrowed-brow set & of course the drugged-up pederasts of Celebrity. Am i right? You betcha. Would you EVER admit it? Of course not, which is why, as sooner or later even the dullest see thru "liberalism" (simply: most 20--year-olds are (& ALWAYS HAVE BEEN) "liberal"; by 40 MOST HAVE (& always have) BECOME less so) your only means of swinging MOST popular elections are myriad frauds, & making eligible folk otherwise ineligible. HOLD your incensed response. I know you have objection to each word i just said. You are high & mighty. You are OUTRAGED! -----I am calm. I know "liberal" "outrage". I know the whole MANIPULATIVE, DISTRACTING playbook. Cuz i used to BE ONE. I even ran for OFFICE as a yout', as a (D) of course, got elected too. What a little PRICK i was, & a good thing i didn't stick at it. I don't speak this way out of ANY conceit, not AT ALL. QUITE the opposite, i speak in some fright yet: for generations (i use the term conscious of it's irony) "libs" have fawned over "youth" as if it's a virtue, even "former youths" in their SEVENTIES getting applause cuz they WERE the "youth candidate" FIFTY YEARS BEFORE---and they ALL are MEDIOCRITIES--- -----As are most OF us; but most of us DO NOT TELL OTHERS WHAT TO DO. Only "liberals" reach out to judge. "Urban sprawl"? There's no WAY to begin responding to an offering SO craftily negative AND HOSTILE: what does it mean to a Do: DAMN / Don't: DAMN person to remind that Demorats controlled most legislatures national AND state in the period documented here, & THEIR "LIBERALISM" borned suburbanization? To insert that, by the way, since CITIES (most CONTROLLED by Dems) are HELLHOLES such that "LIBERALS" live ELSEWHERE---IN the "SPRAWL" for SAFETY? -----There's no engaging with a "liberal" anyway. You believe what you want---are yet SO well-trained that when a PERSON you hate AGREES with you, you THEN DOUBLE--DOUBLE-TWIST words & ideas to savage THAT--- -----Your "urban sprawl" is somebody else's FREEDOM. THAT'S your fundamental tiff. I don't know why EXACTLY cuz everybody's got their own experience (& i know you'd like to tinker with THAT too) but i can guess what's made you so grim. I return to First Principle, that "liberals" knock EVERYTHING. Having knocked it, they see if they can control it. If they CAN, they'll ADOPT the thing. If they can't, well, you know. -----"Liberalism", AND "liberals", SEEK POWER OVER OTHERS. EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS A MANIPULATION, & IN THAT SENSE EVERYTHING THEY SAY IS A LIE. -----"Liberalism" IS a mental disorder, but of a sort analogous to physical disorders that are circumscribed by the phenomena of immunology. Virtually every person goes thru a period of "liberalism", & most are cured of it. Uncured "liberals" seek to keep folk from being cured---NOT just by-the-way are DOOMED in that attempt---further on && another matter, they're DRIVEN to "other means" of tipping public contests---meanime, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. For instance, describe the result of "liberal" proposals FOLLOWED as "urban sprawl". * NEVER has a word been so inaccurately applied.

[@screamingpencil]

@@angelsaltamontes7336 Wow, if ever there was a comment I won't bother reading, that's the one.

[@williamcrowe2576]

With each passing day, we continue to prove these prophecies wrong.

[@privateprivate1865]

For example, In what way? I feel like we're doing everything wrong so we may be in an agreement? But I'm crazy I believe we we live in a petri dish hence the ice age I believe the pyramids were fake to give us the illusion that we were here longer than we were and the same with apes they were planted. As newborns we were raised under cloak and abandoned because the Creator knew that we loved and didn't want us to fill abandoned. Ect ect

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

Here in the distant future year of 2020, all that we have that was predicted is GPS navigation.

[@DartLuke]

And there is no idea of normal public transport system in this movie

[@KevinDavis338]

How is that bad??

[@VZerda]

You’re out of your depth kevin.

[@ELVISISKING1000]

I have always enjoyed The Wonderful World of Disney program every Sunday night in the early to mid 1970's as a child. This is a great film and very informative. I miss this program every Sunday. Not the same without it. Sincerely, Tony Jams, Mr. Rock & Roll @ www.youtube/anthonyjamroz.

[@wes2262]

The future: everyone walking around in their phone 📱

[@AL-xn4qs]

It's made pain in my eyes in first 0:18

[@schuylerjohnson2696]

Disney was such a visionary; at Disney World they have a unique garbage disposable system whereby pipes all over the property and parks send the trash to a huge microwave unit where it is disintegrated; clean safe and efficient. And in this show the larger freeway signs would be fantastic; this was done in 1958 and none of these fabulous ideas was ever implemented.

[@hebneh]

Mow those mature forest trees down like wheat! Blow up those hills! Chew up those old houses and spit 'em out! And then, there's your right of way, bulldozed through the city, destroying those ugly "blighted slum areas" where the poor people lived. Hurray for progress!

[@normanott644]

Almost everything they talked about is a reality today.

[@mattk.3645]

I love the flagship prime-time anthology show that was hosted by Disney, himself, but this episode was so damaging and destructive. We now know just how horrible grade-separated highways, especially through urban areas, actually are. They were very bad public policy. And, I find interesting the fact that, just a few years after this show aired, Mr. Disney publicly stated, when he announced EPCoT, that he thought the automobile has taken over too much of our built environment and that we need to put people back as pedestrians again.

[@yggdrasil9039]

Great, but you didn't need to tear up every urban public transport system to develop the interstates and create a monopoly form of transport. The two could have coexisted.

[@Wig4]

It probably cannot be put that hard (because one never knows how business "could" flow), but for a good deal : YES. It would not have affected the development of animatronics, but it would have affected the sustainment from big corporate money. It's always interesting to see how sponsors flip around. The predecessor film at Disneyland, was sponsored by American Motors (and the camera bearing vehicle was a AM). Then, Ford sporsors in 1958. (See next)

[@crist67mustang]

It's funny (intersting and funny) that since 1958 some thing have not changed like they though may be some day. Routes and ways, high ways, freeways, streets, lanes, avenues are same like today 2016. USA was evidently pioneer in all those kinds of high speed ways for running all those cars. When I saw that scene when trees are fallen down, I though how msut be in '50 to see that, as part of advances of city... or some one felt sadness..? I say this be cause if well humanity actually is more individualist and egoist, at the same time the people today has more conciense about envoroment in general terms. Sorry my English, I'm not from the US. XD I love American things. As this footage for example. I remember those sunday afternoons after lunch, Disneylandia (Disneyland) and all that wonderful chapters. Chris Stgo/CL

[@MsDisneylandlover]

at the worlds fair walt had a ride call the magical sky-way were u travel back time

[@tmcge3325]

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom then Disney!!!!!!

[@eliseolopez6504]

To be one with rivers and their benefits is greater than any creation of men

[@BenLabelle1]

I’ve watched this before and I’m pretty sure at 4:52 they said “and wild aborigines.” Must’ve removed it to air today. They also cut the idea about separate lanes for men and women, where the woman's lane is shown as a disaster area.

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

The womens lane idea lmao

[@ddespair]

Good ol' Disney neglects to mention the native americans that had to be stepped on to make that highway.

[@Ben150219]

... and also never even mentions the murdering and displacement of native americans when "the empty woods" were conquered. I'm really shocked all the comments are that positive towards the film and its ideas... Where even to start? In general, his vision was a world of infrastructure for the white and rich on a planet of never ending resources. I mean ROCKET transport?? This Earth would be ashes if they lived like that just in north america. But it's so cool to see all those Ideas spoken out that kind of brought us where we are today.

[@VZerda]

This video is a magnet for capitalist simps

[@joshuawilkes5888]

you dont have to show me the negative just the good times thank you for trying

[@billsav57]

The interstates seemed like such a good idea then. Today they are a nightmare in many places. I 78 in Pa. in particular is a dangerous, choked, jungle of a nightmare.

[@selfdo]

There's TWICE as many people and FOUR TIMES the number of vehicles on American highways. I can't speak for all of I-78, but likely most of it was designed, laid out, and constructed by 1965. Unless there were plans to expand the highway, including reserving expensive right-of-way, it's something that ends up doomed by its very success.

[@OldsVistaCruiser]

@@selfdo - I-78 in PA from Exit 8 to Exit 51 was merely US 22 converted to an interstate. You can still see the ruins of a gas station next to the highway. They are currently widening I-78 to 6 lanes.

[@selfdo]

@@OldsVistaCruiser Yes, there are quite a few cases where old US highways were simply "improved" by adding overpasses to replace intersections and so on. You'll also see a lot of "Alt-##", or in some cases, they just kept the US Highway or State highway number that the "new" freeway branched off from to bypass the original route. Until the last parts of Interstate 5 between the Grapevine (the original "Grapevine" being also bypassed by the original US 99 being built into a freeway by California in the late 1940s, going out of LA to Wheeler Ridge just south of Bakersfield) and Sacramento were finished by 1979, what's now I-205 and CA 99 from Lathrop to downtown Sacramento was "Alt-5", but also had been the old US 50 that came out of the Atlamont pass. The revised alignment of US 50 was changed to start in West Sacramento, this also concurring with renaming the old northern bypass route, which had been "I-880", as that was changed to apply to the Nimitz Freeway in the East Bay (CA 17), as the new alignment of "I-80", and the route was now "Business 80" and US 50 from that intersection, and just US 50 beyond "Spaghetti Junction" in mid-town Sacramento. FWIW, US 50 stays a freeway through Sacramento County and well into El Dorado County, finally having a few intersections in Placerville, and being a limited-access expressway up through the Apple Hill country before finally narrowing down to a two-lane road as you get closer to Tahoe.

[@ul7185]

Adventures in Fantasy (1957) (3000 Subscribers Special)

[@Ctrl-XYZ]

This is from a 1962 re-broadcast of the 1958 film.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

shoot it is 20 centuries i wanted what it is now

[@adelecox9845]

what a dismal vision of the future

[@MsDisneylandlover]

thees shows were educated

[@mafyind]

Marshan Thomas looks like you could use a little bit of that yourself...

[@Versul1]

I think you mean those who watched these shows became educated.

[@tannawannavannabittannawan7138]

mafyind ~ Looks like you could use a little bit of tact..........

[@tannawannavannabittannawan7138]

I think it was meant to be phrased as such: “These shows were educational.”

[@VZerda]

Saying it’s educational is wrong too. Because I feel dumber having watched it.