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Walt Disney's E.P.C.O.T film (1966)

The Original EPCOT · documentary · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

The 1966 film Walt Disney recorded weeks before his death, laying out his plans for the Florida Project and especially EPCOT, a planned city of the future. It uses models, concept art and animation to describe the circular city, monorails and people movers.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it in discussions of planned cities and urban design as the original source for Disney's utopian EPCOT vision.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “The full EPCOT plans are interesting.”

    Details of EPCOT's circular city, monorails and people movers

    Tempest1981, 2017-11 · Recommendation · in “An Inconvenient Truth about Smart Cities”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: epcot, walt disney, urban planning, utopia, monorail

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