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The Utilidors: A Hidden World Beneath Magic Kingdom (Advanced Program) · Spotlight English: Advanced

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  Speaker 1: Ah, Welcome to Spotlight Advanced. I'm Gillian Woodward.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Roger Basick. Spotlight Advanced uses a special English
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  Speaker 2: method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand
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  Speaker 2: no matter where in the world they live.
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  Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse is the most famous cartoon character. A cartoon
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  Speaker 1: is a drawn picture made to seem like it is moving.
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  Speaker 1: Mickey's large, round, black ears, wide smile, and happy personality
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  Speaker 1: have won fans for almost one hundred years. Walt Disney
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  Speaker 1: created Mickey up eyeworks realized how he should look. Together,
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  Speaker 1: they laid the foundation for an empire. It is an
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  Speaker 1: empire full of joy, wonder, and a hidden world.
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  Speaker 2: Today's Spotlight Advanced is about one of Walt Disney's smartest ideas,
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  Speaker 2: the utildors. We examined how he came up with this idea.
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  Speaker 2: We look at where he used it. We discuss how
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  Speaker 2: this idea affected his business and customers. We talk about
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  Speaker 2: the hidden world that developed from his idea.
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  Speaker 1: Walt Disney and his brother Roy Oliver started the Disney
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  Speaker 1: Brothers cartoon studio in nineteen twenty three. After their character
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  Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse became popular, they decided to make him the
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  Speaker 1: symbol of their company. After several years, they changed their
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  Speaker 1: company's name to Walt Disney Studios. They began making movies
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  Speaker 1: and television shows. Some of their most popular characters were
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  Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and mckey's dog Pluto. These
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  Speaker 1: characters were so popular that Walt Disney decided to build
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  Speaker 1: a theme part around his cartoons in California in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty five. The park would have rides and games. Disney
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  Speaker 1: called it Disneyland.
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  Speaker 2: One day in Disneyland, Walt Disney noticed an employee dressed
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  Speaker 2: as a cowboy walking through the area called Tomorrowland, a
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  Speaker 2: place dedicated to the future, but the cowboys area was Frontierland,
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  Speaker 2: a place dedicated to the United States past. Disney did
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  Speaker 2: not like seeing the cowboy out of place. Disney did
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  Speaker 2: not like seeing the cowboy out of place. He felt
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  Speaker 2: it would distract people inside the park. Disneyland was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be a magical place where children and adults could
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  Speaker 2: escape to a world of imagination for a day. Disney
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  Speaker 2: wanted everything perfect for his visitors experience. He wanted it
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  Speaker 2: to feel like a wonderful dream. He needed to hide
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  Speaker 2: the real world. Disney said, get a good idea and
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  Speaker 2: stay with it, work at it until it is done right.
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  Speaker 1: Disney was not satisfied until his park was perfect. He
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  Speaker 1: was presenting a show for an audience. His employees needed
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  Speaker 1: to behave like actors. These actors needed a private area
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  Speaker 1: where they could prepare for the show without being seen.
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  Speaker 1: Disney wanted his staff to move around the park from
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  Speaker 1: one area to another without interrupting visitors. Deliveries, food service, preparation,
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  Speaker 1: and all other supplies needed to be kept out of sight.
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  Speaker 1: How could Disney do this with millions of people visiting
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  Speaker 1: his park every year.
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  Speaker 2: The answer lay beneath his feet. Disney wanted to build
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  Speaker 2: a separate level below the park for all deliveries and preparations.
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  Speaker 2: Visitors would only see the finished product done the mean level.
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  Speaker 2: But Disneyland was too small to add another level. His
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  Speaker 2: next park, disney World, that opened in Orlando, Florida, in
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  Speaker 2: eighteen seventy one, would be bigger. Disney planned to build
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  Speaker 2: the park on top of a separate level for workers.
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  Speaker 1: The problem was the land in Florida, where Disney wanted
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  Speaker 1: to build his new park could flood easily. Florida is
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  Speaker 1: a very wet place. Water fills the ground. Disney could
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  Speaker 1: not build a separate level below ground. Disney refused to
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  Speaker 1: give up. He wanted his new park to be a
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  Speaker 1: magical place free from interruptions. If he could not build lower,
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  Speaker 1: he would build higher. He hired retired United States Army
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  Speaker 1: General William Joe Potter. Potter had a lot of engineering experience.
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  Speaker 1: Together they built a tunnel system on ground level. The
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  Speaker 1: tunnel formed a circle around the area where Magic Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: would be built. They also built a long pathway across
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the circle. Magic Kingdom was the first
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  Speaker 1: section of Disney World. Years later, park operators built three
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  Speaker 1: other sections, but the Magic Kingdom is the most famous.
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  Speaker 2: The tunnels on ground level were utility corridors, long passageways
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  Speaker 2: that had a functional purpose. Employees called them utildors, combining
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  Speaker 2: the words utility and corridor. Disney wanted it to look
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  Speaker 2: like Magic Kingdom was on ground level. First, General Potter
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  Speaker 2: had his crew build the utildors. They were fifteen feet high.
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  Speaker 2: Then these workers placed tons of dirt and sand on top.
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  Speaker 2: They smoothed it out to hide the util doors. They
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  Speaker 2: created a new ground floor on top. The tunnels ran
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  Speaker 2: under nine acres of land.
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  Speaker 1: General Potter and Walt Disney built Magic Kingdom so guests
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  Speaker 1: would not notice they were gradually walking up hill. Disney
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  Speaker 1: did not want them to wonder what was underneath. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted nothing to trouble them.
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  Speaker 2: The walls inside the UTIL doors have different colors. The
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  Speaker 2: colors magic code that tells employees where they are. Without
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  Speaker 2: the color codes, employees would get lost in the tunnels
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  Speaker 2: on the main level. When employees finish working in their
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  Speaker 2: area of Magic Kingdom, they use unmarked doors to get
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  Speaker 2: down to the lower level. This way, no guests see
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  Speaker 2: a cowboy from Frontierland walking through Tomorrowland, as Walt Disney
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  Speaker 2: once saw.
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  Speaker 1: Employees either walk or ride through the Utila doors in
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  Speaker 1: battery powered vehicles. The tunnels are big enough for an
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  Speaker 1: ambulance or truck to drive through. The utilidors also the
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  Speaker 1: park's security, sound and computer systems. People make deliveries and
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  Speaker 1: store them in these underground corridors.
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  Speaker 2: For a long time, Disney World stored all the costumes
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  Speaker 2: in the UTIL doors for cast members who dress like
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  Speaker 2: Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Snow White, and other characters. There were
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  Speaker 2: over a million costumes there. It was the biggest wardrobe
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  Speaker 2: department in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Each day entertainment. Cast members pick up their costumes for
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  Speaker 1: the day. They often dress as several different characters. On
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  Speaker 1: the same day. They check out all the costumes they
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  Speaker 1: will need for different locations in Magic Kingdom, one former
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  Speaker 1: cast member said.
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  Speaker 3: Rolling black suitcases line the hallway. This allows the cast
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  Speaker 3: members to move their costumes through the tunnels more easily.
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  Speaker 2: There are rehearsal rooms, administrative offices, a bank, and a
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  Speaker 2: cafeteria in the util doors. They even have a barber
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  Speaker 2: shop if employees need a haircut.
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  Speaker 1: The millions of people visiting Disney World each year throw
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  Speaker 1: away a lot of trash. To get rid of it
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  Speaker 1: without guests noticing, Magic Kingdom uses an automated vacuum collection system,
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  Speaker 1: or AVAC to collect all the trash. There are seventeen
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  Speaker 1: collection points around the park. The trash is sucked into
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  Speaker 1: underground tubes in the utilidors. The garbage moves through the
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  Speaker 1: tubes at sixty miles per hour. A machine pushes all
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  Speaker 1: the garbage into a solid block. Cast members drive the
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  Speaker 1: garbage cubes off the property without any visitors noticing.
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  Speaker 2: Over the years, people found out that Magic Kingdom was
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  Speaker 2: built on top of the util doors. Many visitors wanted
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  Speaker 2: to see them. Disney World started offering a tour of
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  Speaker 2: the Util Doors. The walking tour is called Keys to
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  Speaker 2: the Kingdom. It lasts five hours. It explores the hidden
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  Speaker 2: world beneath Magic Kingdom that Walt Disney once dreamed of creating. Jamie,
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  Speaker 2: who writes a tour blog called The Northern Prepster, took
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  Speaker 2: the Keys to the Kingdom tour. She said, we.
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  Speaker 4: Were lucky to get a woman named Darlene who led
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  Speaker 4: our tour, and she was able to offer us a
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  Speaker 4: perspective that I think no other tour guide could. Her
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  Speaker 4: father was a Disney imagineer hand picked by Walt Disney himself.
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  Speaker 4: She shared with us her personal stories knowing Walt as
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  Speaker 4: a young girl.
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  Speaker 1: A Disney imagineer helps create and design parks, rides, and
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  Speaker 1: hotels for Walt Disney Studios. Darlene's father helped walk Disney
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  Speaker 1: make his dreams come true. They created a magical place
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  Speaker 1: where everyone's dreams can now come true.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever been to Disney World? Did you go
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  Speaker 2: to the one in Florida or somewhere outside the United States?
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  Speaker 2: Did you know that Magic Kingdom in Florida was built
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  Speaker 2: on top of the Util Doors? You can leave a
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  Speaker 1: The writer of this episode was Peter Anderson. The producer
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  Speaker 1: was Mitche Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the
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  Speaker 1: United Kingdom and the United States. All quotes were adapted
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  Speaker 1: where in the world they live. This episode is called
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  Speaker 1: the Utilidores, a Hidden world beneath Magic Kingdom.
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