=========================================================================== The following is a effort by David Tomita and Don Bertino to document the attractions at Disneyland - the Original (tm). These descriptions where taken out the handout available from Disneyland called "Disneyland Park - Description Book for Guests with Hearing Impairments" As each attraction is typed in, it will be posted and stored at ftp.calweb.com /users/b/bertino or http://www.calweb.com/~bertino Any comments/additions/corrections would be welcomed. =========================================================================== IT'S A SMALL WORLD Welcome to "It's A Small World." Here, nearly 300 *Audio- Animatronic(tm)* children from more than 100 different nations sing, dance, and entertain guests to a happy tune. No world is more universally enchanting than that of childhood. Its happiness and laughter have flowed from the verse of poets, and have been made melody in the music of composers. Here in Walt Disney's "It's A Small World," these expressions blend into a single, living adventure, capturing the fleeting moments of youth. Through the topiary gardens and past the towering columns of the world, the Small World boats drift silently with the tide into "The Happiest Cruise That Ever Sailed." Each craft follows a course charted for adventure. Seals, polar bears and smiling Eskimo children hail those passing beyond the north polar region into the land of the fjords...Scandinavia. And just ahead appears the London Bridge...gateway to a European holiday. Here is the "old world," the cradle of Western civilization; rich in history, endowed with vast natural beauty, overflowing with tradition. Fur-capped Cossacks dancing the knee-straining "Gopak" mark your departure from Europe and into mysterious Asia. Squadrons of magic carpets welcome each guest upon their arrival in the Middle East. Off the port bow, as snake charmer takes up the "Small World" tune while veiled cuties perform exotic dances. Sailing through the world of the Orient, one may not recall it was once remote and little known except to a few of the hardiest adventurers. Kimono-clad children bow "goodbye" to each passing boat from high atop a Tori gate. The African journey begins in a Egyptian Palace where Cleopatra resides in queenly seclusion. A camel driver's drum beat follow each guest from burning desert into bold jungle regions. Off to port, haughty llamas crown the peaks of the Andes as you journey up the South American continent. Ahead looms Central America, home of the blazing Mayan sun and fire-peaked volcanoes. The turquoise waters ahead lead to the alluring world of the South Pacific. This island-hopping trip captures it all...the wild fire dancers of Tahiti, drifting Polynesian outriggers, even a magical rain forest. Boundaries dissolve and continents link together in the bonds of common friendship and understanding. Here is the exciting Grand Finale...the last leg of our "Happiest Cruise," where the children from all over the world unite in song to remind us: It's a world of laughter, a world of tears, It's a world of hopes and a world of fears; There's so much that we share, That it's time we're aware It's a small world after all. It's a small world after all, It's a small world after all, It's a small world after all, It's a small, small world. There is just one moon, and one golden sun, And a smile means friendship to ev'ryone; Though the mountains divide, And the oceans are wide, It's a small world after all.