via the RetroWDW Youtube feed, this restored home movie was fun to watch!
The open space on the train ride might now be Big Thunder area I think?
My first trip was August 1976 so remember most of what they caught!
We stayed at the Contemporary on that first trip, this was my room, give or take a few to the left or right. 
This is so cool - thanks for posting! I love history and imagining the past and this kind of little glimpse makes me feel like a time traveler for a second!
This was fall and Iâm sure that back then that really was a dead season, but when I watched this the most incredibly striking thing to me was howâŚrelaxed and in the moment/present every guest captured on camera seemed to be. I donât think I saw a person walking at more than, maybe, a fast stroll. Lots of people looking around and the woman who knew the person taking the film seemed to be marveling at details (like a chandelier) and almost literally stopping to smell the roses 
! It looked so, dare I say, civilized??
Also the Contemporary looked fabulous - especially towards the end of the film when you could see some mural stuff from monorail. Wish theyâd lean back into more of its origin times and restore the kind of grand concourse to something like that era!
That is pretty fantastic! Beautifully restored - very smooth and the audio is great!
Itâs so interesting to see how much has changed (a lot!) and how much has remained the same (a lot!)
It is a long time ago, of course, but I was there mid summer 1976, so probably a high time then.
I donât have any recollection of huge crowds at all beyond rope drop. Wasnât empty, but nothing overwhelming. There were definitely some tough lines for things, I recall SM, JC, and PP being the longest waits.
20,000 Leagues was popular but I think they kept that one moving, as well as Pirates. Maybe a bit of wait at HM.
Back then it was still ticket books, so you had to use your E Tickets wisely.
When it got too hot, the best quick fix was If You Had Wings which I donât think required a ticket at all, but as a non-stop loader you could get a quick AC fix. And I loved the end when it felt like you were taking off! 
Are you giving @Jeff_AZ a leg challenge with this pic?
The same PPF we all know and love!!
So much!
I wonder if it would ever be possible to have this kind of environment as shown on the film for a Disney theme park again? If it were cheaper, maybe people would feel itâs less high-stakes and it would be less of a rat race, with everyone hustling from ride to ride and strategizing endlessly (no shade, I now this is a plannersâ site!)? But then maybe even more people would come. I know the fundamentals in Florida were different then (e.g., smaller population) and there was just less stuff. Itâs kind of what worries me about the next big ride replacements etc. - that they just increase the fomo and the intensity of parks visitors etc. Just for my own consumption, I hope the company re-invests in theming and overall atmosphere to make the experience more than the sum of its rides into the future! 
I think the largest factor with crowd levels then vs now is simply airline deregulation, so I wouldnât ever expect a return to slower times.
It cost a pretty penny in the 60-70s to fly and only about the time of this film did the prices ease.
Now, you can fly down there for so little cost when then it was often a significant barrier: pay up or drive a lot. (Heck we fly free on SW every time!)
FWIW, though, I still have the TWA folder from our 1976 trip and the 3-night 4-day price, all inclusive was something like $300 per person.
That included:
We also went to the luau at the Poly, Iâm not sure if that was included too, but I think it may have been?
Back then there was ONE park. Three hotels (or was it still just 2?). People mostly came for the day and went home. The ticket structure was much different, so that you couldnât do everything even if you did run all over, unless you had the right tickets.
There was a lot that was different back then. I donât think its possible to go back
Just CR and Poly then!
Oh, I guess the FW campgrounds too, but hardly a âresortâ 
Wait, I just googled and it says Shades of Green was built in '73 (as the Golf Resort.)
I had no idea, I thought that was an early 80s resort.
I was thinking that air travel had to be a piece of the puzzle!
I didnât know about this until pretty recently too. I think I saw somewhere that it was part of the âvacation kingdomâ era, so to speak!
