the door for disney truly controlling their land though as they wanted to control a lot more than just water they wanted to control their own roads airports mosquito control systems and just about everything else disney was happy to completely pay for these things if they were given complete sovereignty of the land walt disney himself would lay out the plans best when he hosted the florida project a NUMBER_TOKEN-minute film breaking down his grandiose plans for orlando but the most exciting the far the most important part of our florida project in fact the heart of everything we'll be doing in disney world will be our experimental prototype city of tomorrow we call it epcot spelled SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN experimental prototype community of tomorrow here it is in larger scale epcot will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of american industry it will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and new systems and epcot will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of american free enterprise five days after filming the florida project walt disney was admitted to saint joseph's hospital and a month later on the NUMBER_TOKENth of december NUMBER_TOKEN walt disney would pass away from circulatory collapse caused by lung cancer the epcot film was walt's second last time on camera and one of his most passionate performances ever walt's death could have easily been the end of the entire florida plans but his older brother roy who was just about to retire had one last job to finish make sure his brother's final dream came true roy had no idea if he could do it but he was going to try his damn best telling executives we're going to finish this project and we're going to do it just the way what wanted don't you ever forget it i want every one of you to do just exactly what you were going to do when walt was alive one of roy's first motions showed the importance of this project to his brother's legacy officially changing the name from disney world to walt disney world so every person who entered was reminded of the legacy of the genius who made it all possible took over pitching to the state of florida as his brother's dreams couldn't go ahead without disney owning the authority on the land disney proposed the reedy creek improvement district which basically gave disney complete legal power and control over its land drainage utilities sewerage systems construction public transport fire airports ems essentially everything but what did florida have to gain by signing off all these rights usually reserved for governments walt disney world in its first NUMBER_TOKEN years alone was expected to generate NUMBER_TOKEN billion dollars in measurable economic benefits for florida tourism employment and therefore taxes would all be up on april NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN the disney legislation was overwhelmingly passed by the floridian government disney had received its improvement district a district that today still employs over NUMBER_TOKEN full-time staff on the NUMBER_TOKENth of may NUMBER_TOKEN ground would officially break on the walt disney world project original estimates put the cost of construction at around NUMBER_TOKEN million dollars with about a third of that being covered by corporate sponsorships some of the first brands on board included smuckers and even coca-cola who is still on board as a sponsor today
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