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Secret Project

So the filmmaker chose a site situated in the Florida city of Bay Lake – close to Kissimmee and Orlando. And it was here that Disney sought to build an attraction that was to become styled as “the Happiest Place on Earth.”

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So Disney began designing the park in earnest, planning it mostly in secret throughout the 1960s under his special code name “The Florida Project.” The filmmaker masterminded the area of Disney World that is now known as Epcot.