Walt Disney's Disneyland - A Trip Through Adventureland (1956)

When Dateline Disneyland aired live at the opening of Disneyland on July 17. 1955, the show ran behind schedule and the True Life Adventureland segment was severely truncated. So, when Walt returned to his theme park on his TV show in 1956, it makes sense why he focused on the construction and exploration of True Life Adventureland. Surely, the studio had received letters from viewers wanting to see more on this land since it was left off the live broadcast as well.

The segment focuses on the Jungle Cruise which was originally based on Walt Disney's True-Life Adventures series of films. Today we know this section of the parks as Adventureland but originally it was conceived as True Life Adventureland and was based on that film series. There'd never been a series of films like this before and they were innovative documentaries. In 1959, Walt had legendary member of the Nine Old Men Marc Davis revise the Jungle Cruise to have more gags. This 1956 footage shows how the attraction was originally constructed.

This segment originally aired with the True-Life Adventure The Water Birds, but we've only included the Adventureland segment for historical purposes. The Water Birds was released to DVD in 2006.

Original release date February 29, 1956

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