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"it's a small world" was originally created by Disney Imagineers WED Enterprises for the 1964 Worlds Fair. Only a year before the fair opened, Pepsi asked Walt Disney to help them with create an attraction for their pavilion. Pepsi was trying to create a exhibit that would pay tribute to UNICEF. Although , and although Disney was already working on attraction's attractions for Ford Motors (the Skyway), GE ([[The Carousel of Progress]]) and the state of Illinois ([[Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln]]) Walt agreed to work take on a pavilion for the Pepsiexhibit.

The genesis of "it's a small world" began with Walt Disney himself came up for the basic idea of the attraction. Walt wanted to create a boat ride entitled “The Children of the World", which would feature various children singing their own national anthems. Although Imagineer Working from there, Marc Davis came up with some stand out sketches began sketching various ideas for the attraction, before Disney decided to bring in artist Mary Blair. Blair had previously worked as an art supervisor and color stylist for many Disney films, including the Three Caballeros which Disney particularly liked. While Blair worked on the basic design of the dolls and the color scheme for attraction, other Disney Imagineers WED Engineers were hard at work. Many of the scenes and characters found in the attraction were designed by Marc Davis. His , and his wife Alice, was in charge of designing all of the costumes for the dolls to wear. Imagineers Rolly Crump and Jack Ferses were in charge of creating the "toys" (everything that wasn't a doll) for the attraction, while Claude Coats designed the river pattern that the boats would follow. Blaine Gibson, sculpted each of the dolls, giving each one an identically shaped face.

Although Walt's original idea called for all of the dolls to sing their own national anthem, this idea proved unsuccessful. The dolls singing different songs led to disoriented and unpleasant soundtrack. Walt then turned to the Sherman Brothers to create a song for the attraction. He showed the brothers a scale model of the attraction and told them he wanted something like "Row Row Your Boat" , which would be catchy and also easily translatable. Imagineer Harriet Burns (another WED employee) has since stated that she heard Walt say “it’s a small world after all” , to describe the tone that he wanted the song to have. Although Perhaps taking inspiration from this, the Sherman Brothers were not sure about the wrote a a song they had written, titled "it's a small world after all". Although the brothers were initially unsure about their song, Walt said told them "That will work" which Disney employees knew was high praise. In fact , Walt liked the song so much that he changed ended up changing the name of the attraction to mach it.

To draw guests into the pavilion, Imagineer Rolly Crump designed the 120-foot high Tower of the Four Winds. The tower featured a total of The 52 different mobiles which “represented the constant energy of the young". In order to create the attraction on time, construction crews worked seven days a week. Due to these efforts, the pavilion was ready for the opening of the World's Fair. Although Pepsi was not a fan of the attraction Disney had created, the pavilion proved to be extremely popular. Over it's two year run an estimated 10 million people rode the attraction, making it one of the post popular ones at the World's Fair. One of the things that made the attraction so popular, was the high capacity it had. By using multiple boats every hour to get guests on the attraction, their was almost never a wait. This ride system would later be used in other Disney attractions including [[Pirates of the Caribbean]].