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Prologue
Theater
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You've settled into your seat
in the Carousel Theater. Before you, stretching the entire width
of the stage, behind the giant GE Logo, is a pulsing wall
of light called the "Kaleidophonic Screen." Behind
the clear-faceted squares that make up the larger panels of the
screen are banks of multi-colored lights that shine out into
the audience through the maze of squares.
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SOURCE Kaleidophononic
Screen: © The Walt Disney Company presented courtesy
of Bradd Schiffman Collection
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As a full orchestration
of the Carousel's Theme Song, "There's a Great Big Beautiful
Tomorrow," plays in the background, the lights pulse and
glow with the rise and fall of music.
Now the music changes to
a carnival-like rhythm as narrator Rex Allen begins to speak.
As he does, the lights of
the Kaleidophonic Screen pulse in synchronization to his words
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LISTEN! to the Opening
Prologue from Carousel of
Progress -- direct from the New York
World's Fair (2.85MB
Download)
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Welcome! To the General Electric
Carousel of Progress. Now most carousels just go 'round
and around without getting anywhere. But on this one, at every
turn, we'll be making progress. And progress is not just moving
ahead. It's dreaming and working and building a better way of
life.
Progress is the sound of a motor. [Motor whirs.] The hum of a turbine. [Turbine runs.]
The heartbeat of a factory. [Factory
sounds of clanging and machinery.] The
sound of a symphony. [Symphony
orchestra music swells.] The
roar of a rocket.
[Sound of a rocket engine is heard.] Progress
is people getting release from drudgery, gaining more time to
enjoy themselves and live richer lives. And as long as man dreams
... and works ... and builds, this progress will go on; in your
life and mine.
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 . There's a great big beautiful tomorrow
shining at the end of every day.
There's a great big beautiful tomorrow,
and tomorrow's just a dream away.
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Man has a dream
and that's the start . . . .
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Our Carousel Theater
rotates us left out of the Prologue Theater and into the Act I
Theater. The Klaeidophonic Screen pulses brightly with the tune
as the adjoining theater circles in behind us for the next Prologue
audience loading.
SOURCE:
© The Walt Disney Company presented courtesy of Eric
Paddon
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 Click to rotate
to the Act I Theater
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