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It's a Small World (currently styled it's a small world) is a water-based dark ride located in the Fantasyland area at each of the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide: Disneyland Park in California, the Magic Kingdom in Florida, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland. Another version of the attraction is under construction in Shanghai Disneyland as of late 2015. The ride features over 300 audio-animatronic dolls in traditional costumes from cultures around the world, frolicking in a spirit of international unity and singing the attraction's title song, which has a theme of global peace. ==History== Fabricated at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank as ''Children of the World'', it was created by WED Enterprises, then shipped to the 1964 New York World's Fair's UNICEF pavilion, sponsored by Pepsi, where it featured at its entrance a kinetic sculpture, ''The Tower of the Four Winds'', a 120-foot perpetually spinning mobile created by WED designer Rolly Crump. It was added to four attractions — ''Magic Skyway'' (Ford), ''Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln'' (Illinois), ''The Carousel of Progress'' (General Electric), and ''CircleVision 360'' (Kodak)—already under development, which were used by Disney to sponsor, fund, and test concepts and develop ride systems and innovative entertainment intended to be moved and re-built at Disneyland after the World's Fair closed in 1966. The Pepsi Board of Directors took so long to agree on what type of attraction to sponsor that then-board member and widow of past company president Alfred Steele, actress Joan Crawford, prevailed upon her longtime Hollywood friend Walt Disney to design such an attraction as would be suitable for Pepsi. Because of the short lead-time to design, create, and construct such an attraction, she insisted that the Board of Directors accept his proposal, seeing as he was already designing attractions for the state of Illinois, Ford, General Electric, and Kodak and knew Walt was the only one who could accomplish such a feat in the short time left until the fair was scheduled to open.〔Paul F. Anderson (2001). ("A Little Boat Ride: It's A Small World" ). Excerpted from "Disney and the 1964 New York World's Fair", ''Persistence of Vision'', Issue #6/#7. nywf64.com. Retrieved on November 4, 2015.〕 The WED Enterprises company was given only 11 months to create and build the pavilion.〔.〕 Mary Blair was responsible for the attraction's whimsical design and color styling. Blair had been an art director on several Disney animated features, including ''Cinderella'', ''Alice In Wonderland'', and ''Peter Pan''. Like many Disneyland attractions, scenes and characters were designed by Marc Davis, while his wife, Alice Davis, designed the costumes for the dolls. Rolly Crump designed the toys and other supplemental figures on display. The animated dolls were designed and sculpted by Blaine Gibson. Walt was personally involved with Gibson's development of the dolls' facial design; each animated doll face is completely identical in shape. Arrow Development was deeply involved in the design of the passenger-carrying boats and propulsion system of the attraction. Two patents that were filed by Arrow Development staff and assigned to The Walt Disney Company illustrate passenger boats and vehicle guidance systems with features very similar to those later utilized on the Disneyland installation of the attraction. The firm is credited with manufacturing the Disneyland installation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「It's a Small World」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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