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Disney Dish Subscriber Exclusive - Why Exxon nixed Jiminy Cricket

by The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

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In this subscriber-exclusive show, Len Testa & Jim Hill talk about how EPCOT Center’s “Universe of Energy” actually came into being. In particular how Pinocchio’s conscience almost became the host of this Future World pavilion

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Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about:

How the Arab Oil Embargo significantly impacted the sort of story that the Imagineers sought to tell with EPCOT’s energy pavilion

How Jiminy Cricket’s role as Pinocchio’s conscience in that February 1940 release from Walt Disney Animation Studios led to this character’s appearances in those “I’m No Fool” featurettes which the “Mickey Mouse Club” TV series used to present

How some of the lyrics that Buddy Baker wrote for the version of “I’m No Fool” that Jiminy Cricket was supposed to sing as host of EPCOT Center’s Energy pavilion are even more applicable today

Why it took 39 drafts before Exxon’s board of directors would then finally sign off on a script for the film shown after the dinosaur diorama portion of this Future World pavilion

How a comic book that Disney produced for EPCOT Center’s Energy pavilion wound up (for a time, anyway) being the most widely distributed comic book in history

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released January 31, 2020
Hosts: Len Testa and Jim Hill
Fabulously edited by Aaron Z. Adams

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The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Jim Hill is a writer, blogger, and theme park historian, and he'll be the first to tell you all of the back-room deals and corporate gossip that happens inside the Walt Disney Company.

Len Testa co-authors the Unofficial Guide series of travel books, focusing on theme parks.
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