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{{Template:Infobox Disney ride |
| image= Greatmovieride2.jpg
| caption='''The Great Movie Ride is held within a replica of Grumman’s Chinese Theater.'''
| duration=20:00
| closed= August 13, 2017
| theme=Movies
| type= Dark Ride
| Vehicle= Tram
| sponsor= Turner Classic Movies <br>(2015-Present)<br> Coca-Cola (1989-1998)
| audio-animatronics=59
| opened= May 1, 1989
}}
The Great Movie Ride is an attraction located in [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]].
==Attraction History==
The attraction that would one day be known as the The Great Movie Ride actually began as an idea for Epcot[[EPCOT Center]] <ref name= "Studios"> http://www.studioscentral.com/history-great-movie-ride </ref>. In the early 1980’s a team of Imagineers, led by Randy Bright and WDI president Marty Skylar Sklar were tasked with creating two new pavilions for Future World in [[Epcot]]<ref name= "Studios"/>. The team came up with two ideas, the [[Wonders of Life]] pavilion, and the Great Moments at the Movies pavilion<ref name= "Studios"/>. While the Wonders of Life was green lit for inclusion in EpcotEPCOT Center, the Great Moments and the Movies attraction was set aside by Disney CEO Michael Eisner<ref name= "Studios"/>.
The original plans for the Great Moments at the Movies, called for the pavilion to be placed in between [[The Land]] and the [[Journey Into Imagination]] pavilions<ref name= "Studios"/>. The basic plot for the attraction which was to be housed within the pavilion would not only have given guest an inside look into how films were made, but it would have also allowed them to enter the films themselves<ref name= "Studios"/>. The façade for the new pavilion would have featured was to feature a movie set back drop, backdrop with a ticket booth for an entrance. The façade was intentionally designed to look fake, as a commentary on Hollywood itself. After seeing the Great Moments at the Movies concept, Michael Eisner decided that the attraction was strong enough to build a whole new park around<ref name= "Studios"/>. Eventually, Disney decided to create the Disney MGM Studios, with the Great Movie Ride Moments and the Movies attraction as the new park’s centerpiece<ref name= "Studios"/>.
Since the The Great Movie Ride (as it was now called) was now going to be the focus of a new park, Disney Imagineers decided that they needed to create a new façade for the attraction. Since Because the Disney MGM Studios, were set in the golden age of Hollywood (the 1920s-1930s), Imagineers decided to house the attraction inside one of Hollywood’s landmarks, Grauman’s Grumman’s Chinese Theater. Since Furthermore, since the attraction was no longer going to be housed in Epcot, Imagineers also decided that the The Great Movie Ride’s plot would focus less on education, and instead it would take taking guests on a journey through various classic films. OriginallyWhen talking about their preperation for the attraction, Show Designer Eric Jacobson noted: {{Quotation|"Our team researched all those movies that we included in the ride, over and over again. We read books and watched them on video. Back in the 1980s the equipment that we had to work with wasn't as sophisticated as it is now, but we printed out black and white frames from a lot of movies so that we could really slow it down and look to see, for example, exactly what the Wicked Witch of the West's costumes looked like" <ref> Veness, Susan. The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World: Over 600 Secrets of the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom. Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2009. Print. </ref>}}[[Image:ComedyGMR.jpg|400px|thumb|Concept art for the unbuilt "comedy" scene that was originally designed for The Great Movie Ride]]During the development of the attraction there were a few changes to the ride's plot. Early on in the attraction's development there were plans for a "comedy scene" that would have featured Audio-Animatronic versions of:the Keystone Kops, W.C. Fields, Mae West, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin. <ref name= "field"> Alex Wright. The Imagineering Field Guide to Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World: an Imagineer's-Eye Tour. Disney Editions, 2010. </ref>. In this version of the attraction, the finale would have been a dramatically lit room that surrounded guests with some of cinema's greatest characters. In this room guests would have seen- - R2D2 & C3PO (Star Wars), Rhett Butler & Scarlet O'Hara (Gone with the Wind), Rock Balboa (the Rocky film series), the Ghostbusters, Mary Poppins, Indiana Jones, George C. Scott as Patton, Liza Minnelli as Sally Bowles (Cabaret), Gene Kelly as Donald Lockwood (Singing in the Rain), John Wayne, Shirley Temple, and Mickey Mouse <ref name= "field"/>. As the attraction continued to evolve, the room that eventually became the Fantasia scene was going to house the Tornado scene from the Wizard of Oz <ref name= "Korkis"> http://allears.net/ae/issue802.htm </ref>. Likewise, the final scene in the attraction was also going to be an extension of the Wizard of Oz scene<ref name= "central"> https://web. Guests archive.org/web/20080623221337/http://www.greatmovieride.com/originalconcept.html </ref>. In this scene, guests would have come face to face with the Wizard, who would say his famous line “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”<ref name= "central"/>. Following this, the curtain would open showing that the bandit (or gangster ) who had hijacked the ride earlier was still alive<ref name= "central"/>. Finally, guests would approach a large platform where models of all the of the Audio Animatronic characters seen earlier in the ride would reappear and take a bow<ref name= "central"/>. Eventually however, Imagineers learned that they did not have the rights to use more of the Wizard of Oz then had already been used <ref name= "central"/>. MGM had originally agreed to let Disney use audio from the film's munchkin scene, the Wicked Witch of the West's dialog, and a small amount of Dorothea's dialog when she finds the Emerald City <ref name= "central"/>. With MGM unwilling to give up more rights for free, and Disney unwilling to pay, the ideas were eventually scrapped. Instead, a suspiciously windy Fantasia scene replaced the Wizard of Oz's tornado, and the montage of films replaced the Wizard finale<ref name= "central"/>. Other changes during the Great Movie Ride's development were a result of Disney's attempt to get the rights to use the likeness of various celebrities <ref name= "Korkis"/>. In order to do this, either the celebrity themselves or their estate had to sign off<ref name= "Korkis"/>. The following changes were made to the attraction as a result of these negotiations: * James Cagney's estate was unhappy with the outfit that the actor's Animatronic wore in the gangster scene. In order to make the figure more "classy", the family actually gave Imagineers Cagney's actual tuxedo<ref name= "Korkis"/>. * Ingrid Bergman's family would not give Disney the right to use the actresses voice, thus her Animatronic does not speak<ref name= "Korkis"/>. * Lee Marvin's character from the 1965 western, Cat Ballou was originally going to be included in The Great Movie Ride's western scene. When Marvin's children refused to sign the waiver however, Clint Eastwood was added to the scene instead <ref name= "Korkis"/>. Construction on The Great Movie Ride began in 1986 <ref name= "Studios"/>. When creating the replica of the Chinese Theater that would house the attraction, Imagineers used the original blueprints of the 1927 Meyer and Holler building for reference <ref name= "Korkis"/>. Furthermore, when building the theater Imagineers chose to create the building to scale and not use forced perspective <ref name= "Korkis"/>. When the building was being constructed, the 22 ton central roof was built separately and then placed atop the structure <ref name= "Korkis"/>. Finally, The Great Movie Ride opened with the Disney MGM Studios on May 1, 1989<Ref> http://www.thisdayindisneyhistory.com/Disney-MGMGrandOpening.html </ref>. Since its opening, the The Great Movie Ride has only seen two a few major changes. The first change to the attraction came shortly less then a year after its openingit opened. The Footlight Parade scene, which that originally featured a rotating cake and attached water pumps (as seen in the movie), was significantly toned down<ref name= "footlight"/> . The cake in the scene would was constantly break breaking down, and the water pumps would fail, causing the ride path to flood. Disney Imagineers eventually decided to leave the cake stationary, and sue use lighting effects instead of water pumps<ref name= "footlight"> http://www. studioscentral.com/great-movie-ride-footlight-parade </ref>. More recently, bubbles have descended on guests in this scene. The other next major change to The Great Movie ride came in 20081998, when Coca Cola ended its sponsorship of the attraction. Next, in 2001 the theater's spires were removed <ref name= "Martin"> http://www.martinsvids.net/?cat=3</ref>. This was done at the time that the large Sorcerer's Hat was constructed in front of the theater <ref name= "Martin"/>. in 2008 when the Wicked Witch of the West Audio Animatronic was replaced with a newer model. On November 25 2014, Disney and Turner Classic Movies announced that TCM would become the new sponsor of The Great Movie Ride <ref> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/26/business/media/disney-pairs-up-with-turner-to-promote-shows-and-a-ride.html?_r=0 </ref>. As part of the agreement on May 30, 2015 the attraction’s preshow and closing montage were updated <ref> http://attractionsmagazine.com/great-movie-ride-receives-upgrades-part-sponsorship-tcm/ </ref>. Following the update TCM host Robert Osborne introduces the film clips seen in the attraction’s preshow and the closing montage. Furthermore, Osborne was added as the attraction’s narrator <ref> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/the-daily-disney/os-dewayne-bevil-disney-great-movie-ride-20150604-column.html </ref>. Following these changes, the live cast member is still featured in the interactive parts of the ride; however Robert Osborne is the one who narrates The Great Movie Ride’s scenes <ref> http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/the-great-movie-ride/news/29may2015-photos-and-video---new-tcm-updates-debut-at-the-great-movie-ride.htm </ref>. On July 15, 2017 Disney announced that The Great Movie Ride would be closing on August 13, 2017 to make way for a new Mickey Mouse attraction titled "Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway" <ref> http://www.wkyc.com/features/disney-world-closing-iconic-ride-for-new-mickey-mouse-attraction/457273881 </ref>.
==Attraction Plot==
On the The Great Movie Ride, there are two different experiences, one . One experience involves a 1920s 1920’s gangster hijacking the ride, and another involves while the other features an old west outlaw.
===Gangster Version===
[[Image:MarryPoppins.jpg|180px|thumb|Mary Poppins flying on her umbrella.]]The Great Movie ride Ride begins with guests boarding their ride vehicles and being introduced to their live tour guide. After asking if everybody is ready, the guide tells them guests that its show time, before telling C.B. (famous Hollywood director Cécile B. Demile) that everyone is ready to go. As C.B. yells “Action!” the ride vehicles begin to move and the song “Hooray for Hollywood” begins to play. As the tour begins, the tour guide tells introduces his co-narrator for the attraction, Turner Classic Movie’s host Robert Osborne. As guests that enter the Great Movie Ride brings movies to life attraction’s first scene Osborne says:{{Quotation| "Thank you, and puts guests “right in hooray for Hollywood indeed. What better way to start our journey? From the old west to the middle rooftops of London, and along the action”Yellow Brick Road, there really is no place like the movies". }}
The first movie that guests enter is Footlight Parade. Guests pass by a pyramid of chorus girls as bubbles float down from above. The tour guide Robert Osborne then tells guests that they are visiting , "One of Hollywood's significant contributions to the world of film were musicals. This scene is from one of my favorites, the 1933 Busby Burkley musical, which starred James Cagney, Ruby Keeler, and Dick PowelBerkeley spectacular Footlight Parade”. As the vehicles continue forward, the vehicles pass by Gene Kelly performing “Singing In the Rain”. As guests pass by Kelly sings, the tour guide Robert Osborne informs guests them that Gene Kelly co-directed :{{Quotation|"Here’s one of the most famous of all dance sequences, it's from the 1952 classic. Singing In the Rain"}}
The next scene that guests come upon is from Disney’s 1964 film Marry Mary Poppins. Guests pass by Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. The as the duo sings the song “Chim Chim Cheree” from the movie. As the rid continuesHere Osborne comments:{{Quotation| "Ah, here’s one of the tour guide warns guests that they better hold onto their purses and walletsquintessential Disney musicals, as they are entering a bad neighborhoodMary Poppins. As the cars enter a dirty alley, guests can see a fight going on in an apartmentStarring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke this classic earned 13 Academy Award nominations. The tour guide then says:"}}
At this point James Cagney appears on the right where he yells for someone to “open up in their”. On the left of the cars two men are hiding behind some boxes, apparently expecting trouble. One of the men, named Beans, tells his partner Squid to get down because somebody is coming. As the vehicles pass the two thugs, the stoplight up the street turns red and the ride vehicles stop. As the tour guide waits at the light, a gangster emerges from the shadows and hijacks the ride vehicle. She then tells the tour guide:
[[Image:Gangster.jpg|350px|thumb|The gangster who eventually hijacks The Great Movie Ride.]]
{{Quotation|The heats on, see? And your fancy car’s my ticket outta here. So beat it!}}
After the gangster (whose name is reviled reveled to be Mugsy) gets rid of the tour guide, a 1930’s car come screeching into the scene. The gangsters in the car begin to shoot at Beans and Squid, who are still hiding behind the boxes. During the gun fight, Mugsy makes her escape, leaving her accomplices behind. Telling The gangster tells guests that “Runnin’ a red light’s against the law, and I never break the law”, ; Mugsy then shoots out the red light and the vehicles move onto the next scene.
The next scene that cars enter, is an old western town. Here, guests can see Clint Eastwood on their left, and John Wayne (who warns guests about the dangers ahead) on their right. As guests pass by, Wayne warns themRobert Osborne narrates:{{Quotation|Well, that’s "Western films depict a mighty tough territory you’re headin’ into, pilgrimlegendary American wild frontier where cowboys and their loyal steeds maintain order in town against the untamable wilderness. I’d think about turnin’ back if I were youJohn Wayne and Clint Eastwood are two of the iconic stars who epitomize this ideal of the stoic gunslinger."}}
Ignoring WayneJohn Wayne’s warning, Mugsy decides that she is going to collect the guests guest’s valuables, just . Just as she starts the processhowever, the voice of the town’s sheriff can be heard, telling the townsfolk that Mugsy is “the bank robber”. As gunfire begins from either side of the vehicle, Mugsy tells guests that she’s she is getting out of there, and guests proceed into the next room.As guests enter the next scene, the attraction’s narrator informs Robert Osborne tells them that, “This is ‘Alien’. You are with Sigourney Weaver aboard the spaceship Nostromo. Something has gone wrong. One by one, the crew has vanished and somewhere in the ship, a terrifying creature waits to claim its next victim”. As warning sirens go off, guests are informed that ship will detonate in 10 minutes. Then, the alien can be seen overhead, it begins to try an attack the ship. After the first attack, the alien attacks again from the top, and then from the side. Mugsy decides that she has finally had enough, and guests leave the Alien scene. :
As guests leave the Tarzan scenevehicle continues forward, enter guests pass by hieroglyphics on the famous closing scene from Casablancawalls. On their the right, they can see Humphrey Bogart telling Ingrid Bergman that she has a set of stairs leads to get on the planea glowing red jewel. As The ride announcer then informs guests pass the scenethat they are in an ancient burial chamber, where the tour guide references the film , saying: " Louie, I think this priceless jewel is the beginning of a beautiful friendshipheld. The best last lines of a movie ever. Humphrey Bogart Mugsy cannot believe what she sees, and Ingrid Bergman in she goes to get the classic romance, "Casablanca". Leaving Casablancastone, telling guests briefly enter the world of Disney's Fantasia.As Sorcerer Mickey causes waves to splash, guests can feel a soft breezestay put. In this scene, After she exits the tour guide tells guests that Mickey’s mastervehicle, Yensid is actually just Disney spelled backwards.Robert Osborne warns her:
===Bandit Version===
The bandit version of the The Great Movie Ride, is the rarer of the two shows that guests can experience. On this version, the tram cars are not hijacked in the gangster scene. Instead, when traveling to the Western town, the tour guide notices that the bank is being robbed. Not wanting to "let this happen on (his) watch", the tour guide goes to stop the bandit. Unfortunately, is she is quickly captured by a bandit and her partner. As the bandit begins taunting the tour guide, the sheriff tells him/her to "reach for the sky". After an ensuing gunfight, the bank starts on fire, causing the bandit to jump in the tram in order to escape. Like the gangster, the bandit is ultimately done in during the Indiana Jones scene, where the tour guide rejoins the ride.===Closing Montage==='''AUTHORS NOTE: THE INFORMATION IN THIS SECTION HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2015 UPDATE OF THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE’S CLOSING MONTAGE. THE FILMS BELOW WERE FEATURED IN THE MONTAGE FROM 1989 UNTIL MAY 2015.''' Following the Wizard of Oz scene in both versions of the attraction, the trams stop moving in front of a large movie screen. Here guests see film clips from various movies including:[[Image:Robert Osborne.jpg|350px|thumb|TCM's Robert Osborne has been the host of The Great Movie Ride since 2015]]{| style="padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px;"|-| * ''The Cure''| * ''The Rink''| * ''Behind the Screen''|-| * ''The Great Train Robbery''| * ''The Birth of a Nation''| * ''The Ten Commandments''|-| * ''The Kiss''| * ''Wings''| * ''The Jazz Singer''|-|* ''Show Boat''| * ''42nd Street''| * ''Dirty Dancing''|-| * ''Yankee Doodle Dandy''| * ''Grease''| * ''Jailhouse Rock''|-| * ''Sister Act''| * ''Chicago''| * ''Babes in Arms''|-| * ''Cabin in the Sky''| * ''Mary Poppins''| * ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''|-| * ''Anchors Aweigh''| * ''Airplane!''| * ''Saturday Night Fever''|-|* ''Cops''| * ''Take the Money and Run''| * ''Down and Out in Beverly Hills''|-| * ''A Plumbing We Will Go''| * ''Blazing Saddles''| * ''Arthur''|-| * ''Bright Eyes''| * ''A Night at the Opera''| * ''Three Men and a Baby''|-| * ''Broadcast News''| * ''Arsenic and Old Lace''| * ''The Live Ghost''|-| * ''Trading Places ''| * ''Beverly Hills Cop''| * ''The Godfather''|-| * ''The Godfather Part II''| * ''Taxi Driver''| * ''Shanghai Knights''|-| * ''True Grit''| * ''The French Connection''| * ''Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl''|-| * ''North by Northwest''| * ''Raiders of the Lost Ark''| * ''San Francisco''|-| * ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''| * ''Never Say Never Again''| * ''The Terminator''|-| * ''Rambo: First Blood Part II''| * ''Alien''| * ''A Nightmare on Elm Street''|-| * ''King Kong''| * ''Young Frankenstein''| * ''The Wizard of Oz''|-| * ''Funny Girl'| * ''2001: A Space Odyssey''| * ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''|-| * ''Fantasia''| * ''Top Gun''| * ''The Absent-Minded Professor''|-| * ''Platoon''| * ''The Karate Kid''| * ''The Bridge on the River Kwai''|-| * ''Amadeus''| * ''Citizen Kane''| * ''Chariots of Fire''|-| * ''10''| * ''Tootsie''| * ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe''|-| * ''Giant''| * ''Pal Joey''| * ''The Public Enemy''|-| * ''Adam's Rib''| * ''Gone with the Wind''| * ''From Here to Eternity''|-| * ''Shakespeare in Love''| * ''Pearl Harbor''| * ''Wuthering Heights''|-| * ''Notorious''| * ''The Way We Were''| * ''Lady and the Tramp''|-| * ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''| * ''Grand Hotel''| * ''Queen Christina''|-| * ''A Place in the Sun''| * ''Stagecoach''| * ''Sunset Boulevard''|-| * ''Silkwood''| * ''The Grapes of Wrath''| * ''Gentlemen Prefer Blondes''|-| * ''Casablanca''| * ''A Streetcar Named Desire''| * ''Klute''|-| * ''Roman Holiday''| * ''Gilda''| * ''Hud''|-| * ''Good Morning, Vietnam''| * ''Apocalypse Now''| * ''All About Eve''|-| * ''Lawrence of Arabia''| * ''Doctor Zhivago''| * ''Armageddon''|-| * ''Finding Nemo''| * ''Thelma and Louise''| * ''High Noon''|-| * ''Unforgiven''| * ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids''| * ''Lassie Come Home''|-| * ''Patton''| * ''Malcolm X''| * ''Forrest Gump''|-| * ''It's a Wonderful Life''| * ''The Sound of Music''| * ''The Ten Commandments''|-| * ''Ben-Hur''| * ''Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope''|}====Former Clips====Clips formally shown during the montage included: * ''Swing Time''* ''Singin' in the Rain''* ''The Band Wagon''* ''The Three Musketeers''* ''The Adventures of Robin Hood''* ''Cocoon''* ''Independence Day''* ''Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi''* ''Fatal Attraction''* ''The Seven Year Itch''* ''Big''* ''Million Dollar Mermaid''* ''The Lion King''* ''An American in Paris''* ''It Happened One Night''* ''High Society''* ''Crocodile Dundee''* ''Terms of Endearment''* ''Superman: The Movie'' ==Watch the Montage== Click below to see the updated Great Movie Ride montage!{{#ev:youtube|eySJ5Ee0x94|420}} ==Cast=='''AUTHORS NOTE- The following list includes actors/actresses who have dialogue on The Great Movie Ride. It is not a list of the actors depicted within the attraction.''' '''Robert Osborne'''- Himself '''Liza Minnelli'''- Judy Garland (Dorthy) <ref name= "Korkis"/> '''Doug McClure'''- John Wayne <ref name= "Korkis"/> '''Julie Andrews'''- Herself '''Dick Van Dyke'''- Himself '''Johnny Weissmuller'''- Himself (Tarzan) '''James Cagney'''- Himself '''Bert Lahr'''- Cowardly Lion
==Fun Facts and Trivia==
* If guests look closely at the left hieroglyphics in the Indiana Jones scene, they can see Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, R2D2 and C3PO <ref name= "trivia"/>.
* Originally, the belt buckle worn by the John Wayne Audio Animatronic was actually worn by John Wayne himself. When this information became public however, the buckle was stolen and replaced with a replica <ref name= "Korkis"/>.
* In the gangster scene, guests can see that a Mickey Mouse movie poster has been covered by a poster advertising the Jimmy Cagney movie Public Enemies <ref name= "trivia"> http://www.studioscentral.com/great-movie-ride-trivia </ref>.
* When The Great Movie Ride opened, only men played gangsters and women played bandits <ref name= "trivia"/>.
* The cards in the bar where Clint Eastwood stands originally had numbers on them. They have since been replaced with cards featuring only suits <ref name= "Korkis"/>.
* The license plate of the car in the gangster scene is the same plate that was used during the Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 <ref name= "trivia"/>.
* Across from John Wayne in the western scene is a sign that reads "Ransom Stoddard Attorney". This is a reference to a character played by Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<ref name= "trivia"/>.
* If guests look closely at the Yellow Brick road in the Wizard of Oz scene they will notice that the road spells out the world "OZ" with part of the Emerald City <ref name= "trivia"/>.
* The Public Enemy is the oldest film featured in The Great Movie Ride.
* If you want to read the original Great Movie Ride script click [http://www.studioscentral.com/great-movie-ride-script Here]
* Prior to its opening, Sears was in talks with Disney to sponsor The Great Movie Ride. In fact, prior to opening the attraction was often referred to as The Great Movie Ride sponsored by Sears <ref> http://allears.net/ae/issue245.htm </ref>
* In the Alien scene, guests can see a computer screen that has a list of crew members on it. These members are actually Imagineers that worked on the attraction <ref name= "trivia"/>.
* The sheriff Audio Animatronic who shoots at the bank robber in the Western scene is the same figure used for Thomas Jefferson in [[The Hall of Presidents]]<ref name= "Korkis"/>.
==References==