It's a Small World
Designer	Walt Disney; Mary Blair
Attraction type	Boat canal
Propulsion method	Flume Pumps
Vehicle type	Boat
Vehicle capacity	20 (5 rows of 4 guests)

Disneyland
Land	Fantasyland
Opening date	May 28, 1966
Wheelchair accessible.

Magic Kingdom
Land	Fantasyland
Opening date	October 1, 1971
Wheelchair accessible.

Tokyo Disneyland
Land	Fantasyland
Opening date	April 15, 1983
Sponsored by	Sogo
Wheelchair accessible.

Disneyland Park (Paris)
Land	Fantasyland
Opening date	April 12, 1992
Sponsored by	France Télécom
Wheelchair accessible.

"it's a small world" is a popular attraction at several Walt Disney theme parks including: Disneyland (in California), the Magic Kingdom (in Florida), Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris. It has been announced that it will open in Hong Kong Disneyland in 2008. The ride features a multitude of audio-animatronic figures in the style of children of the world singing the ride's title track, which unifies a theme of global peace. Image File history File links Its_A_Small_Worldattractionposterdlrp. ... For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... Mary Blair (October 21, 1911–July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an art supervisor for The Walt Disney Company who produced striking conceptual art for such films as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. ... View of the New York Worlds Fair 1964/1965 as seen from the observation towers of the New York State pavilion. ... 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History

Like several other Disneyland attractions, "it's a small world" originated with the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair (it was Pepsi's pavilion.) After the fair closed the ride was transferred to Disneyland and when the other parks opened they too included versions of the ride. The attraction was designed by Mary Blair, who was also an art director on severalDisney animated features (including Cinderella and Peter Pan). Like many Disneyland and Walt Disney World attractions, scenes and characters were designed by Marc Davis, while his wife, Alice Davis, designed the outfits of the dolls. View of the New York Worlds Fair 1964/1965 as seen from the observation towers of the New York State pavilion. ... Pepsi-Cola, commonly called Pepsi, is a soft drink produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. ... Mary Blair (October 21, 1911–July 26, 1978), born Mary Robinson, was an art supervisor for The Walt Disney Company who produced striking conceptual art for such films as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. ... Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA) is the animation studio that makes up a key element of The Walt Disney Company. ... Walt Disneys 1950 adaptation of Cinderella. ... Peter Pan is the fourteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. ... Marc Fraser Davis (March 30, 1913–January 12, 2000) was a prominent artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios. ...

The name of the ride was originally "children of the world". When Walt Disney demonstrated it to songwriters the Sherman Brothers the ride's soundtrack featured numerous national anthems all playing at once. Disney said, "I need one song." In response, the brothers wrote what would be known as the most performed and translated song on earth: "it's a small world". ^[1] For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman at the London Palladium in 2002 during the premiere of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Stage Musical. ...

Characteristics

Exterior

The white with pastel accents color scheme from 1983.

Topiary sculptures lining the waterway in front of "it's a small world".

The outer façade of the building at Disneyland is a gigantic clock. On the quarter-hour, wooden dolls representing different cultures parade out of the clock, after the last dolls exit the clock, a pair of giant doors swings open to reveal two large toy blocks — one block with the hour, and one block with the minutes, written in highly stylized numerals, then a bell tolls indicating the time. Small World 1983 color scheme Taken by Elf | Talk Disneyland, CA 1983 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Small World 1983 color scheme Taken by Elf | Talk Disneyland, CA 1983 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Small World 1995 topiary Taken by Elf | Talk Disneyland, CA 1995 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Small World 1995 topiary Taken by Elf | Talk Disneyland, CA 1995 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... West façade of the Notre-Dame de Strasbourg Cathedral A facade (or façade) is the exterior of a building – especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A clock (from the Latin cloca, bell) is an instrument for measuring time. ... Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... A numeral is a symbol or group of symbols that represents a number. ... A bell is a simple sound-making device. ...

The exterior has been slightly redesigned and repainted over the years, first as all-white with gold trim, then in myriad pastel colors, in white with pastel accents, and is currently all-white with gold trim as it was in the 1960s. The gardens around the building are decorated with topiary animals. This article is about the color. ... Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. ... This article is about the color. ... A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. ... A topiary dinosaur at Epcot Topiary is the art of creating sculptures in the medium of shrubbery, after the Latin word for an ornamental landscape gardener, toparius. ...

Show

Can-can dancing figures representing France.

Inside the building, the ride features stylized animatronic dolls in national costumes singing the title song in numerous languages. At Disneyland, boats carrying the riders visit the regions of the world in separate rooms: Small World 1995 can-can figures Taken by Elf | Talk Disneyland, CA 1995. ... Small World 1995 can-can figures Taken by Elf | Talk Disneyland, CA 1995. ... Audio-Animatronics is the registered trademark for a form of robotics created by Walt Disney Imagineering for shows and attractions at Disney theme parks, and subsequently expanded on and used by other companies. ...

• The Hello Room, greets the guests to the attraction, showing different cultural greetings from around the world.
• The Scandinavia/North Pole room, with dolls representing Scandinavia, with the song sung in Swedish.
• Europe, with the song sung in German, English with a Cockney accent, Dutch, Spanish, French and Italian, as well as having a yodeler in the section representing Switzerland.
• Asia, with the song sung in Japanese.
• Africa, with the rhythm of the song marked with drums then sung in English.
• South America, with the song sung in Spanish.
• South Seas, with the song sung with an underwater gurgling sound by mermaids for the first section of the room (Disneyland and Disneyland Paris only), and traditional Polynesian versions of the song throughout the rest of the room.
• New Guinea, a small, relatively dark room with a rainforest scene and native drummers.
• The Finale Room, with representatives from all the cultures of the world dressed in white versions of their native costumes and singing in English in unison. A cowboy and American Indian standing together are the only dolls during the ride that represent the United States.
• The Goodbye room, showing different postcards and parting phrases from different cultures around the world, though in the Walt Disney World version, there are flowers instead.

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• They do not begin with a separate room for the Arctic; the Scandinavian dolls are in the Europe room.
• The rainforest scene is in the Latin America room.
• In the Disneyland Paris version of the ride, there is a North America room, with dolls representing Canada and the United States.
• At the Magic Kingdom in Florida, the ride recently reopened with a state-of-the-art sound system, a few new animatronic figures, and a loading area similar to the ride's façade at Disneyland.
• The Hong Kong Disneyland version currently under construction will add 30 Disney characters into certain scenes with them being placed in areas their stories originated. It will also have an expanded Asia and North America sequences, and the promise of "a spectacular 'curtain call' with some extraordinary optical lighting effects not seen on any other Disney ride"^[2].

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Holiday season

"it's a small world holiday" lighting display.

Since 1997, Disneyland has featured "it's a small world holiday" during the Christmas and winter seasons. The attraction is usually closed in October to receive temporary holiday decorations inside and outside, only to reopen in early November before the start of the busy Holiday tourist season. The overlay has proved very popular and at one point during its run needed the use of temporary FASTPASS machines (which have since been uninstalled). The attraction is the same boat voyage through many regions of the world featuring choruses of children singing. During the ride, the main theme song is not played fully, but instead the children of the world sing "Jingle Bells" and a bridge of "Deck the Halls" added to the main theme. The holiday overlay has since been implemented at Tokyo Disneyland. its a small world Holiday at Disneyland, November 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... its a small world Holiday at Disneyland, November 2004 File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Jingle Bells, originally One Horse Open Sleigh, is one of the best known and commonly sung secular Christmas songs in the world. ... Deck the Halls is a secular Christmas carol. ...

During the 2005–2006 holiday season, in order to remove some of the massive crowds from the main plaza during the popular Remember... Dreams Come True fireworks spectacular, a second viewing station was installed at "it's a small world". At the same time, the outdoor facade incorporated a sophisticated, elaborate multi-media presentation projected on the colored patters of the outer façade each quarter hour after dusk. Remember. ...

Parodies

The song and the ride have been the subjects of numerous parodies:

• Disney's Disneyland "Bootstrappers" pirate singers in 2006 warns park patrons of the "cursed dinghy ride" where they stick poor little children in a boat in a dark tunnel where they play the same song over and over again, and you can't get it out of your head. They then sing the cursed tune in a minor key. Also, at the Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe in Tomorrowland at Disney World's Magic Kingdom, an animatronic lounge singer plays the song and claims that "On my planet, we use that song to break the enemy."
• A Saturday Night Live sketch from the 1982-1983 season (season eight) showed people getting trapped and dying one by one on a ride similar to "It's A Small World".
• By Disney's own film The Lion King (in which Zazu, as Scar's bard, sings the song, much to Scar's distress) and Jim Henson's Muppet*Vision 3D attraction
• In the Disney movie Kronk's New Groove, Yzma and Kronk go to their lab and at the beginning there's a fast-paced song in the background with a parody of it's a small world figures.
• In an episode of The Simpsons, the family visits Duff Gardens, itself a parody of a number of theme parks, and Aunt Selma, Lisa, and Bart ride "The Little Land of Duff" which features animatronic children singing about Duff Beer.
• An episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog set in "Doc Gerbil's World," an underground river complete with Audio-Animatronics and a repeating, monotonous soundtrack.
• The "The Wonderful World of Wizzley" episode of My Life as a Teenage Robot, where Brad, Tuck, and Jenny are at an amusement park and ride on a ride called The World Ain't So Big.
• An episode of Family Guy as "It's a Tiny World", where Stewie is chained to the floor with hundreds of other children and forced to sing on the threat of appearing in a Christmas movie starring Tim Allen, but the children are later freed by Peter. The Small World ride was also briefly mentioned in a previous episode of Family Guy, in which then-CEO Michael Eisner claims that he must get back to Disneyland before it opens, as they are "ethnically cleansing" the Small World ride.
• An episode of Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain (a spinoff of Pinky and the Brain), in which Brain attempts to take over the world by altering a key verse in the show's version of the song during the "Happy Sappy Children of Many Lands" ride.
• The 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, wherein a display of saccharine puppets singing "Wonka's Welcome Song" are subsequently torched by the display's own fireworks (and are later seen in the Doll Hospital and Burn Ward, which was described by Wonka as being "relatively new").
• In the film Shrek, Donkey unwittingly activates a souvenir photo-generating kiosk which welcomes the pair to the city of DuLoc via animatronics and a song extremely similar to those of "it's a small world".
• Fun-Fun Universe (from FoxTrot) has a ride like "it's a small world" near 'Souveneir-land' that promotes spending and the lyrics are changed ("It's a fun-fun world where children sing/it'a a fun-fun world where bells ring-a-ling/it's a fun-fun world both high and low/it's a fun-fun world, go spend that dough!).
• In Kim Possible: So the Drama (2005), one of Dr. Drakken's evil plans is "it's a small world"-like rides to drive people insane.
• The song "Ana Ng" by They Might Be Giants includes the lyric "all alone at the '64 World's Fair / eighty dolls yelling 'small girl after all'." In some live performances the band replaces the song's usual bridge with the repeated line "it's a small girl after all" sung to the tune of the original.
• In another Disney film, The Lion King 1 1/2, when Pumbaa stops the movie to go to the bathroom, Timon starts humming the song,then he starts singing it, then he starts humming it again. Also on the Virtual Safari on the movie's DVD, they go through a bug-themed version of "small world". At one point, Uncle Max says he "can't get that song out of his head."
• In the House of Mouse episode Chip and Dale, Goofy sings the "Nuts" song which was sung to the same tune as It's a Small World.
• The song became an in-joke among Disney Theme Park staffers. Most notably, cast members at Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Play It! claimed that if an audience member yelled the answer to a question out, they would be removed from the studio and forced to ride the ride continuously for eight hours.

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The song

(Left to right) Songwriters Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman with Walt Disney in a promotional film for the New York World's Fair (1964)

The well-known catchiness of the song is due not only to its constant repetition for the duration of the ride (which lasts about fifteen minutes, not including time in line), but Robert J. Sherman explains that the structure of the song may also play a role: Image File history File links Shermans042. ... Image File history File links Shermans042. ... Robert B. Sherman (born December 19, 1925) (see also: Sherman Brothers) is an Academy Award-winning American songwriter who specializes in musical films with his brother Richard M. Sherman. ... Robert B. Sherman (born December 19, 1925) and Richard M. Sherman (born June 12, 1928) are Academy Award-winning American songwriters, who specialize in musical film. ... For the company founded by Disney, see The Walt Disney Company. ... Earworm, a loan translation of the German Ohrwurm, is a term for a song stuck in ones head, particularly an annoying one. ...

Like many songs, It's a Small World has a verse and a chorus. One thing which makes this song particularly 'catchy' is that the verse and chorus work in counterpoint to each other. This means that you can play the same chords over and over again, but with different melodies. The repetitive, yet varied pattern tricks your mind into absorbing the work without it becoming tiresome to your ear ^[1].

Attraction facts and figures

"it's a small world" at Tokyo Disneyland

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• Grand Opening: April 22, 1964
• Closing Date: October 17, 1965
• Designers: WED Enterprises
• Sponsors: Pepsi-Cola and UNICEF
• Ride System: Flume Ride

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• Grand Opening: May 28, 1966
• Designers: WED Enterprises
• Animated/unanimated figures: 400
• Slogan: The happiest cruise that ever sailed 'round the world.
• Former Sponsors: Bank of America and Mattel
• Ride Length: 14:23
• Ticket Required: "E"
• Ride System: Flume Ride

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• Grand Opening: October 1, 1971 (Opened with Magic Kingdom park)
  • Closing Date: May 2, 2004
• Grand Re-Opening: March 18, 2005
• Designers: WED Enterprises
• Length: 1,085'
• Flume capacity: 500,000 US gallons (2,000 m³) of water
• Animated/unanimated figures: 472
  • Audio-Animatronics Figures: 289
  • Toys: 147
  • Animated Props: 36
• Slogan: The happiest cruise that ever sailed the seven seas.
• Ride Length: 13:30
• Ride System: Flume Ride
• Former Sponsors: Mattel (1991–1998)

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• Grand Opening: April 15, 1983 (Opened with park)
• Designers: WED Enterprises
• Sponsors: Sogo Co., Ltd.
• Ride System: Flume Ride

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• Grand Opening: April 12, 1992 (Opened with park)
• Designers: Walt Disney Imagineering
• Slogan: The happiest cruise that ever sailed around the world.
• Sponsor: France Telecom
• Ride System: Flume Ride

Hong Kong Disneyland attraction version: April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Walt Disney Imagineering was formed by entertainment mogul Walt Disney on December 16, 1952 as WED Enterprises (WED: Walter Elias Disney) to develop plans for a theme park and to manage Disneys personal assets. ... France Télécom is the main telecommunication company in France. ... The fountain featuring Mickey Mouse in the Park Promenade next to Hong Kong Disneyland The Disney music album released to celebrate the opening of disneyland Hong Kong Disneyland (Traditional Chinese: 香港迪士尼樂園; Cantonese Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 dik6 si6 nei4 lok6 jyun4; Mandarin Pinyin: XiānggÇŽng Díshìní Lèyuán...

• Projected Opening: Early 2008
• Designers: Walt Disney Imagineering
• Ride System: Flume Ride
• Ride Area: 83,500 sq ft (Planned)

2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Walt Disney Imagineering was formed by entertainment mogul Walt Disney on December 16, 1952 as WED Enterprises (WED: Walter Elias Disney) to develop plans for a theme park and to manage Disneys personal assets. ...

See also

• List of current Disneyland attractions
• List of current Magic Kingdom attractions

Disneyland is a theme park within the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California conceived by Walt Disney. ... The Magic Kingdom is a theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. ...

External links

• Disneyland Park - "it's a small world"
• Walt Disney World Resort - "it's a small world"
• tourist video of It's a Small World
• nywf64.com (1964/1965 New York World's Fair Website)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} It's A Small World by Disneyland Chorus (HTML). Retrieved on 2006 May 21.
2. ^ http://www.hkdlsource.com/news/viewstory&story=73