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Disney Legend Bob Gurr:Turning Dreams Into Reality DVD
Bob Gurr: Turning Dreams into Reality
The documentary, Bob Gurr: Turning Dreams into Reality, tells the story of one of Walt Disney\'s earliest 1954 Imagineering Legends, Bob Gurr. His career spanning 45 years creating 250 projects with Disney and beyond will be explored.
From Disneyland to Las Vegas, Olympic spectaculars to rock star shows, Bob\'s creations included Monorails, Abraham Lincoln mechanical animation, Pirate Battle Shows, even massive animated figures of King Kong and Godzilla.
Viewers will learn much about how these attractions were created from those who were there sharing these creations. Eight theme park creators who worked with Bob over these years will describe the unique ways in which he created a vast variety of attractions. The cast includes Disney Ambassador to the World Marty Sklar, Imagineering VP Craig Russell, Imagineer Chris Crump, and many others.
Bob Gurr: Turning Dreams into Reality is directed and produced by Carlene Thie, President of Ape Pen Publishing.
The documentary stars: VP WDI Craig Russell, Glenn Austin, Christopher Crump, Joel Friche, Bob Gurr,
Bruce Hayes,Garner Holt, Monty Lundy, & Marty Sklar. Run time: 52 minutes.
The Making of Turning Dreams into Reality
Carlene Thie, Ape Pen Publishing, over many years has produced and sold numerous DVDs and graphic materials featuring Legendary Disney Imagineer Bob Gurr. Early in 2014, Carlene began the multi-year Dreams project based on the never ending requests for more stories of Bob\'s creations over his 45 year career, some 250 projects for a wide variety clients from Disney and beyond - Universal Studios Tour, Michael Jackson, Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn to name a few.
In addition to the Ape Pen Publishing materials, Bob Gurrhas made over 500 public appearances, podcasts, video interviews, and live radio talks during the past 35 years. The subjects have always been to answer questions about the creation of these projects, the clients, the teams, and the behind-the-scenes details.
But still the Disney and theme park entertainment fans want to know more. Not just what the project was, but the how of Bob\'s working methods. Since Bob never had any engineering training, he was an Art Center car stylist at age twenty, just how did he accomplish these one-of-a-kind projects? These fan questions about the how never cease.
Thus Carlene\'s quest was to explore beyond the what to discover and tell the hidden story of the how. The result is her latest DVD, Bob Gurr: Turning Dreams into Reality.
Asking Bob how he did this work was futile. Many people who have achieved significant accomplishments are puzzled when asked these kinds of questions. To them, what they did was their ordinary work, but a mystery to to others. Bob told Carlene - \"Go ask the witness\'s what they saw\".
Eight \"witness\'s\" promptly assembled over a weekend in the summer of 2014 where a team of camera and audio technicians led by a director captured many hours of \"testimony\" as to what makes Bob \"tick\". At last she had enough evidence to commence a story to answer all the how questions.
Glenn Austin, Christopher Crump, Joel Friche, Bob Gurr,Bruce Hayes,Garner Holt, Monty Lundy, & Marty Sklar all got in their thoughts, and a few digs too. luckily, Carlene and Bob had a lot of suitable photographs that could be used in the documentary. Walt Disney Imagineering also furnished a number of specially licensed company owned photographs.
Bob\'s Emmy winning professional TV recording engineer nephew Eric Johnston lived near Carlene in Riverside California and volunteered his audio editing services. Eric also arranged for additional location shoots as well as other editing services, equipment, and technical assistance.
2015 saw the long process of documentary production - story writing, further editing, both audio mixing and video media, graphic material permissions, and of course obtaining a copyright license from The Walt Disney Company. The documentary is not connected with or a production of TWDC.
As you can see, Bob Gurr & I are friends. (Autopia Car Photo)I also helped publish Bob Gurr\'s book.... \"Design Just For Fun\" written by Bob Gurr Book.(Ape Pen Publishing)I also just finished adocumentary on Disney Legend Bob Gurr; Turning Dreams Into Reality.So as you can see Ipersonally know Bob Gurr, and each poster is signed By Bob Gurr.
And he certainly has. Bob has developed more than 200 designs for attractions ranging fromAutopiaandMatterhorn Bobsledsto the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Monorails, and more.
Born in Los Angeles on October 25, 1931, young Bob was fascinated with tools, mechanical devices, and cars. He often crawled through a hole in the fence of nearby Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale to sneak into the cockpits of idle transport airplanes, while at school he decorated his test papers with sketches of automobiles.
Later, he attended Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles on a General Motors scholarship, where he studied industrial design. Upon graduation in 1952, he was hired by Ford Motor Company, but soon purchased a rubber stamp marked “R.H. Gurr Industrial Design” and went into business for himself.
Soon after, WED Enterprises, today known as Walt Disney Imagineering, hired Bob to consult on the design of miniature cars forAutopia.Walt Disney was so impressed with Bob’s knowledge and skill that he invited him to join the Imagineering family, which then was solely dedicated to the design and construction of Disneyland.
Over the next nearly four decades, Bob worked transportation magic developing the memorableFlying Saucersattraction in Tomorrowland, the antique cars and double-decker buses of Main Street, U.S.A., Ford Motor Company’sMagic Skyway, which premiered at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair,Autopia Cars, Matterhorn Bob Sleds, Omnimover\'s, and more. Bob also helped design the mechanical workings of Disney’s firstAudio-Animatronics®human figure, Abraham Lincoln, featured inGreat Moments with Mr. Lincoln.
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