A collage of images featuring both black-and-white and color concept art illustrations, photographs, technical blueprints, and a comic strip panel are at the top. They fade into a white background featuring text for event information, sponsor/contributor logos, and a photo of the presenter (Bryan). "Move Over for the Mouse: The Impacts of DIsney's Community Transportation Services on the Future of Urban Mass Transit in the 'Long American Mid-century'" presented by Bryan Santiago '26 to the 2025 Northeastern Popular Culture Association conference (Disney Studies #3 panel) Thu, Oct. 9th @ 2:15pm-3:45pm, 215 Penfield (classroom) Special thanks: SUNY Oswego, Department of History (College of Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Engineering): Dr. Richard Weyhing, department chair; Dr. Gwen Kay, HIS 495 capstone instructor; SUNY Oswego, Penfield LIbrary: Sarah Weisman, director of Penfield LIbrary; Emily Mitchell, assistant director
A slide with a fully white background has two images and descriptive text panels and associated credits/provenance next to each image. The first descriptive panel sits next to an image of an indoor sprawlingly large shopping mall with buildings of international cultural architecture styles and two futuristic modes of public transportation. "Publicity photos of early versions for downtown EPCOT commercial center 'World Showcase,' featuring both the Monorail and a WEDway PeopleMover; Walt Disney Productions, 1966. Courtesy of Ted Linhart." The next panel is next to an image of a scanned page from a technical specifications booklet with different configurations for a modular car concept. "Modular car concept for the CTS division (looks similar to monorail trains or PRT 'pod car' vehicles; Bob Gurr, June 3, 1974. Courtesy of Ted Linhart."
A slide with a fully white background has three images and a descriptive text panel and associated credits/provenance next to and below the images. Illustrated comic strip panels featuring pod car vehicles on a guided track suspended above ground by concrete beams. Office buildings can be seen in the backgrounds, and in one panel, a large highway with cars is visible underneath the pod car guideway track. The first comic panel has descriptive text, introducing the idea: "The average private automobile spends more than 90% of its time immobile, but car-like pods automatically directed on guideways, coming when summoned and going where individuals choose, may be acceptable to people as a substitute for autos..." The descriptive panel text reads "Comic panels that discuss the opportunity of 'pod cars' through peoplemover and automated guideway transit technology; 'Our New Age' (comic strip). Words by Athelstan Spilhaus, illustrations by Gene Fawcette. September 12, 1972. Cited by Matt Novak, 'People Movers Were the Great Transportation Promise of the 1970s,' 'PaleoFuture' (blog), January 30, 2014."
After almost 2 years, I'm incredibly honored (yet also super nervous) to be presenting my research capstone project to the #northeast #PopCulture conference! If you're not leaving for fall break, come say hi Thursday, October 9th at 2:15pm in Penfield Library classroom 215. #GoOswego #research #NY
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