{"id":1469,"date":"2013-07-12T21:37:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T04:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2013-07-12T23:06:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T06:06:41","slug":"mary-blair-and-its-a-small-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/mary-blair-and-its-a-small-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Blair and &#8220;It&#8217;s a Small World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NT0958a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1472\" alt=\"NT0958a\" src=\"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NT0958a-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NT0958a-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/NT0958a.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you know anything about Disneyland history, then you are familiar with the name of Mary Blair. \u00a0And if you are familiar with her name, then you&#8217;ll know that she had a hand in many Disney films as well as a number of murals at Disneyland, EPCOT and the Contemporary resort in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I stumbled across a couple of cards that highlight her work on &#8220;It&#8217;s a Small World&#8221;. \u00a0One shows the actual interior of the ride and is a common Disneyland card (NT0985). \u00a0The other shows the concept work for this same scene and is found on one of the &#8220;Colors of Mary Blair&#8221; cards that I picked up at the Disney Family Museum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DFM_MBT5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1471\" alt=\"DFM_MBT5\" src=\"http:\/\/disneypostcards.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DFM_MBT5-202x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DFM_MBT5-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DFM_MBT5.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>As someone who has designed a lot of things as an engineer, seeing these two cards side by side is a real treat. \u00a0Concept and reality frequently differ in many, often compromised, ways. But here, you really get the sense that Mary was able to work with the engineers and technicians to make her vision become reality without having to sacrifice too much in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Disney engineers continue to do this today&#8230;60 years after the founding of WED Enterprises. \u00a0Here&#8217;s hoping for many more years to come!<\/p>\n<p>Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know anything about Disneyland history, then you are familiar with the name of Mary Blair. \u00a0And if you are familiar with her name, then you&#8217;ll know that she had a hand in many Disney films as well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/mary-blair-and-its-a-small-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,9,3,5],"tags":[142,87,86],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-postcards-disney","category-disneyland","category-postcards","tag-postcards","tag-its-a-small-world","tag-mary-blair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2G91U-nH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1475,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundrycollectibles.net\/disneypostcards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}