Tomorrow Society

84. Glenn Barker on Creating Sound at Walt Disney Imagineering for More Than 45 Years

10.14.2019 by Dan Heaton // Leave a Comment

Glenn Barker worked closely on the sound for Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, which remains a classic attraction.

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I’m always interested to learn more about how Disney Imagineers got started early in their careers. Few take the predictable route to a job in theme parks. Glenn Barker played drums in parades at Disneyland before ultimately joining Disney’s sound department.… Read more...

Spaceship Earth, Scene by Scene: The Renaissance

10.10.2019 by Dan Heaton // Leave a Comment

Gutenberg examines a page in front of his printing press in Spaceship Earth at Epcot.

We have reached the turning point in the journey through our Spaceship Earth. Up to this point, it’s been a fairly slow trip with easily separated scenes. Now the pace increases thanks to a pivotal invention from Johann Gutenberg — the movable type printing press!… Read more...

83. Sound Designer Greg Meader on the Disney/MGM Studios, On-Board Audio, and the Carousel of Progress

09.30.2019 by Dan Heaton // Leave a Comment

Greg Meader was a sound designer on the 1993 update of Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress.

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I’ve enjoyed the chance to dig further into how attractions are developed by Walt Disney Imagineering. I learn something new every time I speak with someone that worked for Disney behind the scenes.… Read more...