The Disney Monorail: Imagineering a Highway in the Sky

By Jeff Kurtti, Vanessa Hunt, Paul Wolski

Book Overview

Deluxe jacketed hardcover book offers 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
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484737679
• ISBN13: 9781484737675
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Disney Editions
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 11.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher