Disneyland / Walt Disney Presents / The Wonderful World of Walt Disney
, subject: television program and episodes
An eight-month television run that also served as a giant advertisement for Disneyland presents an unusually direct case of programming used to launch a product.
About this work
The series carried the titles Walt Disney Presents and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color as it moved from ABC to NBC in 1961, organizing content into segments called Frontierland, Adventureland, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland to match the theme park's lands.
Why explore it
Best if you want to study a specific case in which an eight-month television run was used to promote Disneyland and was framed as an extraordinary product launch.
Key themes
- Programming as product-launch advertising
- A launch built in public
Evidence and original sources
This record is supported by 1 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- How Walt Disney Built His Greatest Creation: Disneyland — After watching program episodes, David frames the eight-month television run as possibly the greatest product launch of all time because it functioned as a giant Disneyland advertisement.
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