AT&T Age of Information exhibit, EPCOT Center, 1980s
Scope and Contents
These folders contain sketches, plans, correspondence, and documents related to the Age of Information exhibit at EPCOT Center at Disney World for which Walter created a kinetic sculpture installation which remained there through the 1980s into the early 1990s. The subseries Photographs of Series 2. Professional work contains images of the exhibit and its construction.
Box 3, folder 6 contains a record of the song, "Bringing the World Closer to You," which was featured in the exhibit. There is currently no way to listen to this record in the reading room. Thomas Tierney composed and owns the rights to the song, which can, as of 2025, be heard through the Lake Buena Vista Historical Society's podcast series: https://www.retrowdw.com/podcast/podcast-episode-54-5-bringing-the-world-closer-to-you/
Tierney's papers are held by the University of Illinois's Sousa Archives and Center for American Music: https://archon.library.illinois.edu/archives/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=13267
Dates
- 1980s