ABSTRACT
Keeping a central course from the entrance of the Disneyland theme park and across Fantasyland, visitors reach a huge toy-town clock set in a castle. This is 'It's a Small World', one of the most popular rides in Disneyland, and one of the few with external sponsorship. Disneyland, the first of several such institutions, is at Anaheim in Orange County, Southern California, adjoining the city of Los Angeles and within easy reach of Hollywood. It was the brainchild of the creative film maker Walt Disney who first outlined his idea for a theme park in August 1948. It is a fantasy-wrapped amusement park, which the skills of a filmmaker have served to make intrinsically interesting and entertaining. Thus an entertaining spectacle is provided for all age groups, strictly separate from the world of work and reality. Disneyland projects itself as a playground stocked with pleasing but undemanding playthings.
