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By admin, on July 9th, 2007
Hi everyone. It’s that time of the year again for me to travel to
California for the NFFC Disneyana
National Convention. The convention
schedule has just been released and you can read it
here. I will be attending the entire convention and will have a table at
the giant NFFC Disneyana Show and Sale on Sunday July 15th at the
Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resort (12921 Harbor Blvd. Garden Grove, CA). If
you are attending, please stop by and say hello. I look forward to
meeting everyone! I will also be opening my room at the convention hotel
for room hopping on Saturday July 14th. For more information about the
NFFC please click here.
Next on the agenda will be celebrating Disneyland’s 52nd Birthday,
July 17th. This is always a highlight of the convention for me as I am a
die hard theme park enthusiast known to close the parks at any and all
opportunities.
My Disneyland birthday
tradition is to enjoy the park with friends and ride all the original
opening day attractions from 1955. I don’t always make them all but I
have a great time trying.
I will of course be recording video for upcoming DVD projects including
the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, Pirate’s Lair on Tom Sawyer
Island, The Jedi Training Academy and more. I am also
recording classic Disneyland
attractions for a new series to debut in early 2008.
As always, while I am traveling you will still receive the same level of
quality service and guarenteed 24 hr shipping you have come to expect
from JeffLangeDVD.
By admin, on June 23rd, 2007
What a start to my weekend. I had the great honor to find the following
note in my email!
Jeff —
My name is Ron Schneider. I was the first and original strolling
Dreamfinder & Figment at
Journey Into Imagination from ’82 to ’87, and I was the official
voice for the Dreamfinder (after Chuck McCann was "let go".)
I’m writing you because I have just received and glanced through your
video tribute to my old stomping grounds and couldn’t let another minute
go by without thanking you and congratulating you on a sterling job!!
Your footage, editing, sound, color and comprehensive coverage really
took me back to the old ride and I’ll be using this great production for
years to come to demonstrate the old show to people (always giving the
credit to JeffLangeDVD,
of course)!
Thanks again for all your hard work,
Ron Schneider
Photos above provided by Ron Schneider as the original Dreamfinder
(with Figment of course) in the early years of the Imagination pavilion.
I really appreciate his kind words about my
Journey Into Imagination DVD, especially from someone who appreciates and
contributed so much to the history of Epcot Center! Thanks to Ron
Schneider for providing so much happiness as the original Dreamfinder. I
really wish the Dreamfinder was still with us in the parks today.
Jeff Lange Remembers Epcot’s
Journey Into Imagination 25th Anniversary Collectors Edition is
available now. For more information or to order the DVD please click
HERE. As always, if you want to request a future DVD idea, Photo Memory
topic or comment on anything, just drop me a line at
suggestions@JeffLangeDVD.com.
By admin, on May 11th, 2007 Welcome back to Photo memories #12, part 4 of Epcot Center’s Horizons. This is the final edition of the series… for now.
 
The space station Brava Centauri.This scene really blew me away! It just seemed like such a cool concept to live in space. I always wondered how they filled the swimming pools up there.
 
The Century 3 Intercolony Spaceship. It looked sporty like a space motorcycle. I think the virtual excercise machine above has come to exist in real life.
 
Sure makes walking Napoleon (the dog) a lot more interesting. Father never seems to manage to get that shoe!
 
“Just think, materials from space for all kinds of industries back on earth.” A final goodbye to a wonderful old friend. Horizons 1983-1999.
Production Update: I am in the final stages of wrapping up my next DVD title “Jeff Lange Remembers Epcot’s World of Motion 25th Anniversary Collectors Edition“. It is going to be a 2-Disc set packed with features! Please check back later this weekend for this all new release!
As always, if anyone wants to request a future DVD idea, Photo Memory topic or comment on anything, just drop me a line at suggestions@JeffLangeDVD.com.
By admin, on April 20th, 2007
Hi everyone, welcome to my photo memories #9 featuring part one from
Epcot Center’s classic attraction Horizons! I hope you enjoy the photos.
The photo above was taken shortly after Epcot Center opened and Horizons
was still under construction. Above is Jules Verne from the "Looking
Back at Tomorrow" scenes.
The scene of the man in the moon above reminds me of a similar scene in
the new version of Journey Into Imagination with Figment. I will post a
photo comparison in a future edition.
I always loved the retro look of the robots in this section of the
attraction. It looks like the one on the right really has his hands full.
I will be releasing my latest DVD title featuring Horizons very soon.
Please check back for details. The Horizons attraction was always a
favorite of mine so I have been working extra hard to make the DVD I
always wanted but could never find. The process has involved editing
multiple video recordings of the attraction from 1991-1998, scanning
classic Epcot photos (over 1000 scans from 47,000+ images) for this and
the other pavilions for my
Epcot 25th Anniversary series, color correcting and dust removal,
sometimes pixel by pixel of the Horizons photos for the slide show (very
painstaking & time consuming work but the end result really makes the
photos come to life). As I have such an abundance of great footage and
Images, I will again be offering a standard edition, companion
collection title and a 2-disc set containing everything.
As always, if you want to request a future DVD idea, Photo Memory topic
or comment on anything, just drop me a line at
suggestions@JeffLangeDVD.com.
By admin, on April 12th, 2007
I had the great pleasure last week to attend ‘A Salute to Roy Disney’ at
the Philadelphia Film
Festival with my old friends
Jim Hill & Nancy Stadler,
Tim Devine & my wife Florence. Mr. Disney was being honored with the
Inspiration Award and interviewed by legendary film critic
Leonard Maltin. It was a very enjoyable presentation covering Roy’s entire
life and career with Disney. Below are some photos from the event
.
The evening began with a fantastic montage of classic Disney animation.
Next Mr. Disney was presented the Philadelphia Film Society’s
Inspiration Award.
Leonard Maltin interviewed Mr. Disney about growing up as a Disney, his
work at the Disney Studio, Fantasia 2000 and his non Disney Interests.
Mr. Disney was surprisingly candid as he spoke about his troubles with
Michael Eisner and the Disney Board of directors.
At the conclusion Roy posed for photos with his award and thanked
everyone for attending. I had the pleasure of speaking to both Mr.
Disney and Mr. Maltin after the event and they were both cordial and
forthcoming. Mr. Maltin commented that he was happily surprised to see
the Disney
Treasures DVD series continue as he was previously informed it was
coming to an end. It was a great night that I wish every Disney fan
could have attended.
For more photos and a complete review of the event please check out Jim
Hill’s great article
here.
By admin, on March 26th, 2007 Hello everyone, welcome to photo memories #8. In this edition I am featuring images from the early years of Walt Disney World’s nighttime entertainment district Pleasure Island.
 
You can notice changes to the outside of the island in these first two photos. The left image was taken around 1990 and the right was from this past year. Note the worn looking warehouse paint job on the older shot and the growth of the tree and upgrade to the bridge in the current photo.
 
The above were restaurants from Pleasure Island’s opening years. Merriweather’s Market was a food court that operated from 1989-1993 and was where Raglan Road stands today. The Fireworks Factory was a pyrotechnics themed restaurant (a favorite of mine) that operated from 1989-1997 and is where Motion dance club is currently.
 
Jessica’s of Hollywood and the XZFR Rockin’ Rollerdrome were both very short lived.
 
The Grand Funmeister was your original host of Pleasure Island (as seen on the West End Stage). The Comedy Warehouse originally featured a parody show called “Forbidden Disney” (which will be featured in it’s entirety on my upcoming Pleasure Island Classics DVD).
As stated above I am currently working on a new DVD title featuring the Original Pleasure Island shows and performances. It will include the entire original New Years Eve countdown show and fireworks, The rarely seen “Forbidden Disney” show from the Comedy Warehouse, scenes from around the Island & the original nightclubs, various Adventurers Club Library shows and skits from it’s early years and more. If anyone has any suggestions on this new title please send them to the email address below.
As always, if you want to request a future DVD idea, Photo Memory topic or comment on anything, just drop me a line at suggestions@JeffLangeDVD.com.
By admin, on March 11th, 2007 Welcom back everyone. If you remember back to the Photo Memory #3 entry, I was made aware of a long thread on the WDW Magic forums discussing a satellite featured in the original version of Epcot’s Spaceship Earth. The discussion has grown to almost 600 posts and while looking for additional images for my new Companion Collection series, I came across some additional photos of the elusive satellite seen below.
 
The view below of the Spaceship Earth spaceman looks very similar to this spaceman currently featured on the speedramp at the exit of Space Mountain. Could this be one and the same?
 
I am currently working on my next release. I’ll provide a few photo hints below on the subject. I don’t think it will be very difficult to figure out what the title will feature.
Once again, if anyone wants to request a future DVD idea, Photo Memory topic or comment on anything, just drop me a line at suggestions@JeffLangeDVD.com.
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Praise from the Epcot Center Imagination Pavilion's Original Dreamfinder!
What a start to my weekend. I had the great honor to find the following
note in my email!
Jeff —
My name is Ron Schneider. I was the first and original strolling
Dreamfinder & Figment at
Journey Into Imagination from ’82 to ’87, and I was the official
voice for the Dreamfinder (after Chuck McCann was "let go".)
I’m writing you because I have just received and glanced through your
video tribute to my old stomping grounds and couldn’t let another minute
go by without thanking you and congratulating you on a sterling job!!
Your footage, editing, sound, color and comprehensive coverage really
took me back to the old ride and I’ll be using this great production for
years to come to demonstrate the old show to people (always giving the
credit to JeffLangeDVD,
of course)!
Thanks again for all your hard work,
Ron Schneider
Photos above provided by Ron Schneider as the original Dreamfinder
(with Figment of course) in the early years of the Imagination pavilion.
I really appreciate his kind words about my
Journey Into Imagination DVD, especially from someone who appreciates and
contributed so much to the history of Epcot Center! Thanks to Ron
Schneider for providing so much happiness as the original Dreamfinder. I
really wish the Dreamfinder was still with us in the parks today.
Jeff Lange Remembers Epcot’s
Journey Into Imagination 25th Anniversary Collectors Edition is
available now. For more information or to order the DVD please click
HERE. As always, if you want to request a future DVD idea, Photo Memory
topic or comment on anything, just drop me a line at
suggestions@JeffLangeDVD.com.
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