Episode 10 -- The Finale -- of The Year Before Disneyland wraps in July, 1955. We begin at The Disneyland Hotel and why it NOT opening with The Park was a Blessing. Then it’s back to TV with the 1st new ‘Disneyland’ The Show Ep since March: The Park’s “Pre-Opening Report!” Then it’s Walt & Lillian’s 30th Wedding Anniversary and (we hope) The Mark Twain’s Maiden Voyage. THEN, in the Week before Park Opening? Walt goes to The Hollywood Bowl, Disneyland gets a Freeway Offramp & an Address, ...
Aug 12, 2024•1 hr 40 min
Episode 9 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with June, 1955 where we begin in Theatres with two Feature Releases and one Short including the Hit Now-Classic ‘Lady And The Tramp’ (including spotlights on a couple favorite Imagineers). Then 29 Big Things get piled on Disney: The Unions. And we round out this week’s chat with (hopefully) filling The Rivers Of America and getting The Disneyland Railroad to run LESS than properly … including a ride around The Park with Walt … and ...
Jul 23, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Episode 8 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with May, 1955 where we begin at the beginning … of the PARK, that is: Main Street U.S.A. Then we’ll tram over to The Disneyland Hotel for its Gas Station and some ‘Gourmet’ Food. Then it’s back to Theatres for the ‘Davy Crockett’ Feature AND we’ll chat that Genuine Phenomenon. And we’ll round out this week with Van Arsdale France & Dick Nunis presenting their Castmember Orientation Program … and relishing in their little part o...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 29 min
Episode 7 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with March & April, 1955 where we return to The Disneyland Hotel for its Groundbreaking and how Guests got-around outside the Park. Then we’re back in Theatres with the Animated Short ‘Contrasts In Rhythm’ AND back on TV with the 2 Eps before we go to Repeats until right before Park Opening, including the seminal ‘Man In Space.’ Then we’ll introduce 2 Key People in the success of the Park EXPERIENCE: Ruth Shellhorn & Van Ars...
Jul 09, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Episode 6 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with January & February, 1955 where we begin with Disney’s Float in The Rose Parade. Then it’s EIGHT ‘Disneyland’ TV Show Eps including where Pirate Speak comes from, relooking at ’20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,’ more ‘Davy Crockett,’ a Park Progress Report, and ‘Lady And The Tramp’ with Ms. Peggy Lee. Then it’s a Donald Duck Short, Bob Gurr getting Autopia driving (do you remember all its Tracks?), AND we’ll look at that little ...
Jul 02, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Episode 5 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with December, 1954. We begin with the FIVE ‘Disneyland’ TV Show episodes that month (including 3 biggies), chat Disney’s Sylvania Win, Walt being on the cover of ‘Time,’ and the birth of ‘The Mickey Mouse Club.’ Then we look at Bob Gurr’s officially starting at WED, and Walt living up to his own "perfect creationism." And we round out 1954 in the theatre with a Donald Duck bio, his ‘Grand Canyonscope’ short, and the premiere of the...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 14 min
Episode 4 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with November, 1954. We’ll chat Bios on Ub Iwerks & Bob Gurr; look at ‘The Flying Squirrel’ in Theatres and ‘Alice In Wonderland,’ ‘True Life Adventures,’ Donald Duck, & ‘So Dear To My Heart’ on TV; C.V. Wood – you remember Woody – going after Sponsors and beginning his own exit; and we’ll close out this week with the Official Beginning of The Disneyland Hotel (that Wrather wanted to open WITH The Park). Would it? COULD it? ...
Jun 18, 2024•58 min
Episode 3 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland continues with September & October, 1954. We’ll chat Bios on Roy Disney, Bonita Granville, and Jack Wrather; those latter two KEY in The Disneyland Hotel. Then we’re back in Theatres with the Animated Short Social Lion and on TV with the Premiere of the Disneyland TV Show. And we’ll close out this week in Frontierland; what little was there by October, 1954 and – continuing our Land Tours – what would be there Opening Day. And THAT’S now ...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Episode 2 officially begins our Year Before Disneyland with July & August, 1954. We’ll look at 160 Acres of barren Anaheim land knowing half of it needs to become a Park – quoting Walt – “like nothing else in the world.” And we’ll begin in Adventureland. We’ll also spotlight Chouinard Art Institute and the July & August ’54 Theatrical Releases including Disney’s break from Distributor RKO. AND, nothing else going on, right? Maybe it’s time for Walt & Roy to come up with the TV Show t...
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Episode 1 of our Season on The Year Before Disneyland is our Prologue to July 1954, getting you both grounded in the scene & its players AND getting you comfortable with just how much happened at Disney at the same time … on a regular basis. Plus the impetuses of 'Lady And The Tramp,' '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea,' AND Disneyland go back longer than most people realize. And how many people realize just how integral ABC – yep, the TV Network – was to making Disneyland happen? We’ll get into ...
May 28, 2024•1 hr 40 min
When Tron The Attraction opened in Walt Disney World in 2023, there were comments such as, “It took FIVE YEARS to build! Disneyland took ONE!” And of course there are asterisks to that but it got us thinking about The Year Before Disneyland: July 1954 to July 1955. Yes, Disneyland The Park went from breaking ground to opening. But look at what ELSE happened IN THAT SAME TIME: Disney parted with RKO and began distributing their own Pictures; The Disneyland Hotel was pitched, sold, built, ALMOST c...
May 21, 2024•7 min
Episode 10 – The Finale – of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman rounds out The Story from 2006 to 2018, looking at a lost Non Fiction Book, a Mark Wahlberg-starrer, writing with The Sports Guy Bill Simmons, Goldman’s return to Broadway, his only Biography, losing a Daughter, and the world losing William Goldman. And when the chronology is through? We’ll of course talk his Legacy that continues – and likely will for years to come – to entertain, inform, and, yes, inspire. Plea...
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Episode 9 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman pauses the chronology to spotlight his two Writing-On-Writing, On-Hollywood, KINDA-Autobiographies: 1983’s ‘Adventures in the Screen Trade’ and 2000’s ‘Which Lie Did I Tell?’ Where he takes us through his work, others’ work, even presents new work for peers to critique … and you bet we discuss his infamous “Nobody Knows Anything.” But, then, remember what Orson Welles said about Biographies? Please see Our Text Supplement...
Jan 02, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Episode 8 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman gets into ‘Absolute Power’ with Clint Eastwood and our chatting Adaptations in general. We’ll nod Brother James’ passing, chat Goldman’s last screenplays – ‘The General’s Daughter,’ ‘Hearts In Atlantis,’ and ‘Dreamcatcher’ – and his last books: ‘The Big Picture’ and ‘Which Lie Did I Tell?’ Then we’ll round-out with his non-Produced ‘Shazam’ Script AND ask, “Where do you leave Jimmy Stewart?” Please see Our Text Supplement...
Dec 26, 2023•59 min
Episode 7 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman gets into the bulk of his script doctoring work (including a phonecall about 'The Silence Of The Lambs' and his time on a personal favorite: ‘Chaplin’). And perhaps you’ve heard of his work on ‘Good Will Hunting?’ Then it’s HIS screenplays including – in his words – his Biggest Flop and – in my words – his Biggest Missed Opportunity. And what did Abraham Lincoln mean with “This Too Shall Pass?” Please see Our Text Supplement f...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Episode 6 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman begins our 2nd Half “back in Hollywood” with ‘Memoirs Of An Invisible Man.’ Then it’s (FINALLY some’ll say) the Movie ‘The Princess Bride.’ Then his Love Letter to Sports, ‘Wait Till Next Year,’ and his wistfulling his Divorce AND Cannes AND The Miss America Pageant: ‘Hype And Glory.’ And we close with what many still consider one of THE best Thrillers: ‘Misery.' Please see Our Text Supplement for Book, Theatre, & Film...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Episode 5 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman – we’re Halfway Through! – gets into what Goldman himself called his Leper Period. That is, Hollywood stopped calling. But while there were NO Screenplays (one Teleplay), he produced SIX Novels ... including his Last. Oh, and in Non Fiction? We’ve arrived at his legendary, ‘Adventures In The Screen Trade.’ Now, when we say there were No Screenplays, that is Produced. So the ones that weren’t? Wait’ll you hear. Please see Our ...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Episode 4 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman – “It Killed Me To Write That” – gets into some Hard Writing with Goldman continuing Adaptations (Others and His Own, and Adapting One’s Own is ALWAYS Hardest) PLUS he’s embroiled in bringing to screen the famous Woodward-Bernstein Book ‘All ThePresident’s Men.’ If that wasn’t enough, we’ll chat his only Children’s Book, ‘Marathon Man,’ ‘Magic,’ AND ‘A Bridge Too Far.’ PS, all this? In only Five Years. Please see Our Text Sup...
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 14 min
Episode 3 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman – “Truths” – digs past the Dates & Facts into some of his First Real Hits with ‘Harper,’ ‘Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid,’ and the Novel ‘The Princess Bride.’ On top of those? There’s his first Non Fiction, the Broadway Touchstone ‘The Season,’ the underrated Heist Movie ‘The Hot Rock,’ AND two more Novels! Oh and on a personal note? A bout of Pneumonia so bad it’ll hospitalize him and linger the rest of his life. Please...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Episode 2 of our Season on the Life & Career of William Goldman – “Looming Fates” – sees the Storyteller writing for Broadway, getting married, having his two daughters, releasing his – deep breath – second, third, fourth and fifth novels; the fourth of which – ‘Boys And Girls Together’ – being quite the Sea Change including birthing his totally unplanned Movie Career. But will he ever be able to outrun the Dark Cloud of Career Uncertainty he felt shadowing him? Please see Our Text Supple...
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Season 1 -- the Podcast itself -- Premieres with Episode 1 "Stupid Courage," introducing your Host, Michael Holland, and beginning the Story of the Life & Career of Storyteller William Goldman. We’ll travel from Lone Pine, California to Highland Park, Illinois to New York City; learning about the 1939 Classic ‘Gunga Din,' Goldman's growing up and his time in the Army, becoming a Writer, all of it culminating in the release of his First Novel, ‘The Temple Of Gold.’ Please see Our Text Supp...
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Welcome to 'From Out Of The Past,' a new Podcast from Holland Imaginarium. This is Season 1: William Goldman, coming this Fall. Remember 'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid,' 'Marathon Man,' 'All The President's Men,' 'The Princess Bride,' and 'Misery?' Over the season's ten weeks we'll be looking at William Goldman's Life & Career, celebrating his 16 Novels and 7 Non-Fictions and 24 Screenplays and and and. You can already follow us on Instagram @fromoutofthepastpodcast or Email us at fromo...
Oct 01, 2023•6 min
