The Great Movie Ride was a dark ride located at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, United States. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the attraction employed the use of Audio-Animatronic figures, practical sets, live actors, special effects, and projections to recreate iconic scenes from twelve classic films throughout motion picture history. The attraction—which debuted with the park on May 1, 1989—was located inside the park's replica of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, one of Hollywood's most famous movie palaces.
Image: The Great Movie Ride original poster
Image: The Great Movie Ride and Chinese Theater at Walt Disney World
Recreation of the Chinese Theatre
The neon theatre marquee inside of the 1930s-era Hollywood soundstage at the beginning of the ride.
Disney's Hollywood Studios
Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Experiences division. Based on a concept by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1, 1989, as the Disney–MGM Studios Theme Park, and was the third of four theme parks built at Walt Disney World. Spanning 135 acres (55 ha), the park is themed to an idealized version of Hollywood, California, and is dedicated to the imagined worlds from film, television, music, and theatre, drawing inspiration from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
The Hollywood Tower Hotel, the icon of the park and home of The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
The Chinese Theatre, the visual centerpiece of the park's hub, pictured in 2016. It initially housed The Great Movie Ride and now hosts Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway.
The park's entrance gate with the original name in its signage.
Hollywood Boulevard
