Editing It's a Small World (section)

=== Ride ===
The ride was fabricated at the [[Walt Disney Studios (Burbank)|Walt Disney Studios]] in [[Burbank, California|Burbank]] as ''Children of the World'', and created by [[Walt Disney Imagineering|WED Enterprises]]. It was shipped to the [[1964 New York World's Fair]], where it was housed at the [[UNICEF]] pavilion (sponsored by [[Pepsi]]), which featured at its entrance a kinetic sculpture, ''The Tower of the Four Winds'', a 120-foot perpetually spinning mobile created by WED designer [[Rolly Crump]].<ref name=":0" /> The ride joined three other World's Fair attractions—''Magic Skyway'' (Ford pavilion), ''[[Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln]]'' (Illinois pavilion), and ''[[The Carousel of Progress]]'' (General Electric pavilion)—that Disney was already involved with. All were intended to be dismantled and rebuilt at Disneyland after the World's Fair had closed in 1966.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://huntingpixiedust.com/history-of-its-a-small-world/|title=History of It's a Small World|date=June 26, 2018|website=Hunting Pixie Dust|language=en-US|access-date=January 27, 2019|archive-date=April 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421140144/https://huntingpixiedust.com/history-of-its-a-small-world/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Tirella">{{cite book |last=Tirella |first=Joseph |url=https://archive.org/details/tomorrowland19640000tire/page/n5/mode/2up |title=Tomorrow-Land: The 1964–65 World's Fair and the Transformation of America |publisher=Lyons Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-4930-0333-4 |url-access=registration}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=53–57}}

[[Mary Blair]] was responsible for the attraction's whimsical design and color styling.<ref name="RS 2024">{{Cite web |last1=Reilly |first1=Maeve |last2=Seastrom |first2=Lucas |date=2024-05-28 |title='it's a small world' turns 60: A Global Celebration at The World's Fair |url=https://www.waltdisney.org/blog/its-small-world-turns-60-global-celebration-worlds-fair |access-date=2024-08-25 |publisher=The Walt Disney Family Museum}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Fanning |first=Jim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sJ7GDwAAQBAJ |title=The Disney Book: A Celebration of the World of Disney |date=2015-10-06 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-4654-9541-9 |page=172 |language=en}}</ref> The scenes and characters were designed by animator [[Marc Davis (animator)|Marc Davis]],<ref name="n153980659">{{Cite news |last=Martens |first=Todd |date=2018-09-09 |title=Disneyland's beatnik by design |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-disneylands-beatn/153980659/ |access-date=2024-08-25 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=E1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/34364206/ E5]}}</ref><ref name="Evans2022">{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Greg |date=2022-11-07 |title=Alice Davis Dies: Costume Designer for Disneyland's 'It's A Small World' & 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' Rides Was 93 |url=https://deadline.com/2022/11/alice-davis-dead-disneyland-costume-designer-its-a-small-world-was-93-1235165939/ |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref> who also choreographed the [[Audio-Animatronics|audio-animatronic]] figures' dances.<ref name="n154035702">{{Cite news |date=1964-05-05 |title='Small World' a Big One for Youngsters at Fair |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-news-small-world-a-big-one/154035702/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |work=The Evening News |pages=17}}</ref> His wife [[Alice Estes Davis|Alice Davis]] designed the dolls' costumes.<ref name="Evans2022" /><ref name="n154035702" /> The costumes were heavily influenced by other countries' clothing,<ref name="n154035702" /> as [[Walt Disney]] had directed Alice Davis to "do whatever it takes to make these look like dolls every woman in the world would want to have".<ref name="Brown2020">{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Genevieve Shaw |date=May 7, 2020 |title=Take a virtual ride on Disney's 'It's a Small World' |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/virtual-ride-disneys-small-world/story?id&#61;70555407 |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref> Crump designed the toys and other supplemental figures on display, as well as the original attraction's facade.<ref name="n153980659" /> The animated dolls were designed and sculpted by Blaine Gibson.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=2015-07-11 |title=Blaine Gibson, Sculptor of Figures in Disney Parks, Dies at 97 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/arts/design/blaine-gibson-sculptor-of-figures-in-disney-parks-dies-at-97.html |access-date=2024-08-25 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

[[Arrow Development]] was heavily involved in the design of the passenger-carrying boats and propulsion system of the attraction. Two patents that were filed by Arrow Development staff and assigned to The Walt Disney Company illustrate passenger boats and vehicle guidance systems with features very similar to those later utilized on the Disneyland installation of the attraction.<ref>{{cite patent|country=US|number=3404635|status=patent|title=Boat amusement ride|pubdate=October 8, 1968|fdate=April 16, 1965|invent1=Bacon, Karl W.|invent2=Morgan, Edgar A.|assign1=The Walt Disney Company}}</ref><ref>{{cite patent|country=US|number=D204282|status=patent|title=Passenger-carrying amusement boat|pubdate=April 5, 1966|fdate=March 8, 1965|invent1=Morgan, Edgar A.|assign1=The Walt Disney Company}}</ref> The firm is credited with manufacturing the Disneyland installation.<ref name=Gurr>{{cite web|last=Gurr|first=Bob|title=DESIGN: Those Were The Times – No. 23 1955 Arrow Development – Ed Morgan and Karl Bacon|url=http://micechat.com/49581-bob-gurr-arrow-development/|website=MiceChat.com|access-date=November 28, 2013|date=November 27, 2013}}</ref>