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What did Walt Disney do at the end of his life?

At the time of his death, he was working on EPCOT, which he foresaw as an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow?a fully functioning city attached to Disney World in which he could try out ideas of urban planning.



At the very end of his life in 1966, Walt Disney was almost entirely consumed by his vision for "The Florida Project," which we now know as Walt Disney World. He was particularly focused on EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow), which he envisioned not as a theme park, but as a living, working city that would solve the problems of urban decay. Even as he lay in his hospital bed at St. Joseph's Hospital in December 1966, his brother Roy recalled him staring at the ceiling tiles and using them as a "grid map" to explain where the monorails and roads would go. He continued to oversee the development of Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion for Disneyland, as well as several film projects, driving himself with creative intensity until his passing on December 15, 1966. His final filmed appearance was a 1966 featurette where he enthusiastically outlined his plans for the "city of the future."

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