The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky

Product Code: 54993
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky
The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky

The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky

Product Code: 54993
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From the publisher:

A lavish visual celebration of one of Disney's most impactful and beloved creations: the Disney Monorail.

Walt Disney is renowned as a cartoonist, filmmaker, showman, and entertainment icon. But he was also a farsighted futurist, a transportation buff with practical roots in the past, and visionary sights set on the future. In imagining Disneyland, Walt saw it not only as a destination for diversion and entertainment, but also as a means of presenting practical demonstrations of new ideas and new technology with real-world applications.

In The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky, readers will discover the parallel stories of the development of a new form of transportation and the evolution of Walt's prophetic creative mind, which together resulted in the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere. Since June 1959, this mid-century modern marvel has captured the hearts and imaginations of theme park and Disney fans everywhere; it has inspired, as Walt hoped, the creation of working monorails in practical transit applications in varied locations all around the world.

Through a lively and succinct narrative and a stunning collection of unique historical photographs and rare concept and development art (much of it never before published) readers will be transported into a future where yesterday's dreams are tomorrow's realities!

JEFF KURTTI is a leading authority on The Walt Disney Company, its founder, and its history. He is the author of more than thirty books, a writer-director of award-winning documentary content, and a respected public speaker. Since 1995, Kurtti has enjoyed a career as an author and consultant in the motion picture, theatre, and theme park entertainment industries. He was creative director, content consultant, and media producer for The Walt Disney Family Museum and a producer of The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story.

VANESSA HUNT is a Walt Disney Imagineer and a lifelong Disney aficionado. Her education is in art history, and she is part of the group responsible for the more than 160,000 pieces of original artwork preserved in the Walt Disney Imagineering Art Collection. She has been curator of several Imagineering exhibits featuring many of the works from the Art Collection, and has consulted for The Walt Disney Family Museum. Vanessa is also the coauthor of the wildly popular volumes Poster Art of the Disney Parks (2012) and Maps of the Disney Parks (2016), as well as a designer on Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks (2019).

PAUL WOLSKI is a graphic designer, creative director, and illustrator whose career began in environmental graphics with Walt Disney Imagineering. He served as character illustrator for all signage in Mickey's Toontown at Disneyland and provided character graphics for Tokyo Disneyland and what is now known as Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida. After two decades of working in publishing and retail design, Paul has returned to Disney as a book designer, collaborating with Jeff Kurtti on From All of Us to All of You: The Disney Christmas Card (2018) and working with Hunt on Marc Davis in His Own Words: Imagineering the Disney Theme Parks (2019).

Condition & Attributes

Very Fine in Near Fine dustjacket (very light wear to the dustjacket)

Publishing Information

New York
Disney Editions
2020
2nd
9781484737675

Physical Description

9.5 inches
11.5 inches
208 pages
color and black & white illustrations
hardcover
boards
English

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