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In July of 1956, the Barstow family of Wethersfield, Connecticut, won a trip to the newly opened park, Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California. They won a trip after they entered a nationwide 3M Scotch Tape contest.
Robbins Barstow made a 30-minute documentary on the family's trip. This documentary is just one of eight that Barstow filmed on his families travels. During the video the family can all be seen in 1950's Wild West fringe jackets with their names embroidered between their shoulders.
Barstow began making documentary films in the 1930s when he made a Tarzan film starring his brothers and himself.
The video has had over 15,000 views at the Archives.org site.
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- Barstow family joined 3M Scotch Tape contest
- Barstow family won a free trip to Disneyland
- 30-minute documentary film
- Filmed in 1956
- Filmed by Robbins Barstow
- Filmed at Disneyland
- Filmed the Barstow Family
- Captures Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California
- Family travel adventure to Disneyland
- Talks about American history
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Disneyland Dream 1956 Video and Information
- Boing Boing: Robbins Barstow's Spectacular Amateur Films (April 20, 2008)
- "I am a retired educator, but all my life I have been an ardent amateur filmmaker, starting at the age of 12, in 1932, making family chronicles, travelogs, and other documentaries. I am submitting on your posted form another archive.org link which I think you will also enjoy -- a teen-age, fictional, Tarzan story which I made in 1936 with my two younger brothers and some neighborhood girls -- "Tarzan and the Rocky Gorge." - Robbins Barstow
- Bomba Charger: Robbins Barstow's Disneyland Dream (April 12, 2008)
- "For a piece of amateur documentary filmmaking, it's beautifully crafted. Given that Barstow himself made it himself, it demonstrates a surprisingly canny understanding of narrative construction and editing on the fly."
- Home & Amateur: Meet Robbins Barstow (April 12, 2008)
- Los Angeles Times: Disneyland Dream (1956) (April 11, 2008)
- In My Mind's Zen Garden: The Barstow Family's "Disneyland Dream" (1956) (April 11, 2008)
- Daddytypes.org: Now That's A Disney Dad: Awesome Dork Films Family's 1956 Trip... (April 11, 2008)
- Boing Boing: Home Movie of Contest-Winning Family Vacation to Disneyland in 1956 (April 11, 2008)
- Archives.org: Disneyland Dream 1956 Video (Time: 34:30)
- Boing Boing: Robbins Barstow's Spectacular Amateur Films (April 20, 2008)
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