 
Designed for General
Electric for the 1964 World's Fair by Disney Imagineers, The
Carousel of Progress (originally from the General Electric's
Progressland Pavilion) featured a revolving stage and showed how
the life of man has been improved with the use of electricity. After
it's run at the fair, it was later moved to Disneyland and
"improved" with a revolutionary theatre design in which the
audience revolved around a stationary stage. The theme song,
"There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" was written by the Sherman
brothers, and was used between scenes as the theatre rotated. The
show was brought to Disneyland in 1967, and at the conclusion of the
show, the audience exited to the upper level which contained a model
of Walt Disney's EPCOT as he originally envisioned it.
The photos on the left are from the original 1964 version that
played at the New York World's Fair. You can hear the original
recording below.
Other attractions, such as It's a Small World, Great Moments with
Mr. Lincoln, and portions of The Primeval World
(originally from Ford's Magic Skyway attraction) were also
built especially for the World's Fair, then moved to Disneyland. In
1973, The Carousel of Progress was moved to Florida's Magic Kingdom
and was replaced the next year with
America Sings, a salute to over 200 years of American song.
America Sings closed in 1988 and remained unoccupied until
Innoventions opened in 1998 with New Tomorrowland.
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