Editing It's a Small World (section)

=== Operations ===
The World's Fair opened on April 22, 1964,<ref name="The Sun 1964">{{Cite news |date=April 23, 1964 |title=World's Fair Opens To Picketing; Stall-In Fails: Johnson Foresees Global Peace Soon Rain, Racial Troubles Keep Crowd To 90,000; More Than 290 Integrationists Seized |work=The Sun |page=1 |id={{ProQuest|540050678}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=April 23, 1964 |title=Rain Soaks Crowd; Sit-Ins Mar Festivities at Some Pavilions—Attendance Cut |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/23/archives/rain-soaks-crowd-sitins-mar-festivities-at-some-pavilionsattendance.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514000810/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/23/archives/rain-soaks-crowd-sitins-mar-festivities-at-some-pavilionsattendance.html |archive-date=May 14, 2024 |access-date=May 13, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and UN Secretary General [[U Thant]] dedicated It's a Small World three days later, on April 25.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lelyveld |first=Joseph |date=1964-04-26 |title=Children at Fair Ride and Shriek; And Some Get Very Weary Sooner or Later |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/26/archives/children-at-fair-ride-and-shriek-and-some-get-very-weary-sooner-or.html |access-date=2024-08-25 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="p540115498">{{Cite news |date=26 Apr 1964 |title='Epoch-Making' N.Y. Fair Is Saluted By U Thant |work=The Baltimore Sun |page=3 |issn=1930-8965 |id={{ProQuest|540115498}}}}</ref> Tickets cost 60 cents for children and 95 cents for adults, and proceeds from ticket sales were donated to UNICEF.<ref name="n154035431" /><ref name="nyt-1964-08-21" /> Despite the admission fee, it was still one of the fair's most popular exhibits, with 35,000 to 40,000 daily riders on average.<ref name="nyt-1964-08-21" /> The attraction saw nearly five million visitors during the first year alone.<ref name="p226833259">{{Cite news |date=27 Mar 1965 |title=Disney Fantasy Tour At Pepsi-Cola Pavilion |work=New York Amsterdam News |page=56 |id={{proQuest|226833259}}}}</ref><ref name="p964064565">{{cite magazine |date=Jul 7, 1965 |title=Vaudeville: Soft Drink Workers Local Throws Pepsi Exhibit to Milk and Juice |magazine=Variety |pages=49 |volume=239 |issue=7 |id={{ProQuest|964064565}}}}</ref> A writer for ''The New York Times'' wrote that the "wondrous boat ride" was worth riding multiple times,<ref>{{Cite news |date=1964-04-22 |title=A Visitor's Guide to 5 Main Areas; Systematic Approach Will Cause Less Fatigue |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/22/archives/a-visitors-guide-to-5-main-areas-systematic-approach-will-cause.html |access-date=2024-08-25 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' called the attraction "one of the greatest contributions to world peace ever shown anywhere".<ref name="p510567114">{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Everett M. |date=16 May 1964 |title=Wonders of Tomorrow With Audio-animatronics At the World's Fair |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=15 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|510567114}}}}</ref> The World's Fair version of the ride was also featured in the TV show ''Disney Goes to the World's Fair''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1964-05-17 |title=Walt Disney 'Goes to the Fair' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/richmond-times-dispatch-walt-disney-goe/154036276/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |work=Richmond Times-Dispatch |pages=182}}</ref>

The fair did not operate between October 18, 1964,<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 19, 1964 |title=Young Employes Say Farewells Gather to Reminisce on Six Months at Fair — Few Expecting to Return |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/19/archives/young-employes-say-farewells-gather-to-reminisce-on-six-months-at.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516194354/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/19/archives/young-employes-say-farewells-gather-to-reminisce-on-six-months-at.html |archive-date=May 16, 2024 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Cassidy |first=Joseph |date=October 19, 1964 |title=Fair's Last Day Draws Crowd |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-fairs-last-day-draws-crowd/147511723/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516195531/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-fairs-last-day-draws-crowd/147511723/ |archive-date=May 16, 2024 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |pages=67 |via=newspapers.com |issn=2692-1251}}</ref> and April 21, 1965.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Alden |first=Robert |date=April 22, 1965 |title=158,000 Open the Fair's Second Year; Paid Admissions Are 3 Times More Than First Day's in '64 158,000, Half of Them Children, Attend World's Fair on Crisp, Sunny Opening Day |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/04/22/archives/158000-open-the-fairs-second-year-paid-admissions-are-3-times-more.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516213745/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/04/22/archives/158000-open-the-fairs-second-year-paid-admissions-are-3-times-more.html |archive-date=May 16, 2024 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=O'Neill |first=Maureen |date=April 22, 1965 |title=The Natives Return—They're Hardy Lot |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-the-natives-re/147516845/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516213738/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-the-natives-re/147516845/ |archive-date=May 16, 2024 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |work=Newsday |pages=91 |via=newspapers.com |issn=2574-5298}}</ref> Between the fair's two seasons, the figures were refurbished at Disney's studios in Hollywood.<ref name="p913625981">{{cite news |last=Wiemer |first=Robert |date=30 Nov 1964 |title=Fair Is Anything But Fair As It Awaits Snow |work=Newsday |page=11 |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|913625981}}}}</ref> The ride remained otherwise unchanged, although the queue line was modified to increase visitor flow.<ref name="p226833259" /> To accommodate the high ridership, the ride was operating 15 hours a day by mid-1965;<ref>{{Cite news |date=1965-07-18 |title=Pavilion Hours Are Extended As Fair Attendance Soars |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-pavilio/154042964/ |access-date=2024-08-26 |work=The Central New Jersey Home News |pages=2}}</ref> the attraction had recorded 10.3 million total visitors by the end of the second year.<ref name="n153989293">{{Cite news |date=1966-07-04 |title=Disney's 'It's Small World' Makes Real Treat for Youths |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-post-disneys-its-small-wor/153989293/ |access-date=2024-08-25 |work=Daily News-Post |pages=7}}</ref>  After the fair ended on October 17, 1965,<ref name="Abrams 1965">{{cite news |last1=Abrams |first1=Arnold |last2=Smith |first2=Edward G. |date=October 18, 1965 |title=Drunks and Vandals Close the Fair: They Dig the World's Fair on Its Last Day |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-drunks-and-van/149444310/ |access-date=2024-06-16 |work=Newsday |pages=5, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-drunks-and-van/149444344/ 79] |via=newspapers.com |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|914444914}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Alden |first=Robert |date=October 18, 1965 |title=Vandalism Mars Last Day Of the Two-Year Exposition; Weeping Children, Sad Employes and Vandalism Abound as World's Fair Closes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/10/18/archives/vandalism-mars-last-day-of-the-twoyear-exposition-weeping-children.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516215354/https://www.nytimes.com/1965/10/18/archives/vandalism-mars-last-day-of-the-twoyear-exposition-weeping-children.html |archive-date=May 16, 2024 |access-date=May 16, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the Walt Disney Company planned to send the ride to [[Disneyland]] in [[Anaheim, California]], U.S.<ref name="p179386193">{{cite news |last=Vernon |first=Scott |date=16 Feb 1964 |title=Disney Puts His Magic in N. Y. Fair: Speaking Lincoln to Cave Men |work=Chicago Tribune |page=H17 |issn=1085-6706 |id={{ProQuest|179386193}}}}</ref><ref name="p962973627">{{cite magazine |date=12 May 1965 |title=Pictures: Those Disney 'Dolls' At N.Y. World's Fair Part of 'Gnomobil' Film |magazine=Variety |pages=22 |volume=238 |issue=12 |id={{ProQuest|962973627}}}}</ref> Its high hourly capacity influenced future attractions; [[Pirates of the Caribbean (attraction)|Pirates of the Caribbean]] had been under construction at Disneyland as a subterranean walk-through, but that design was changed to a boat ride.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fanning |first=Jim |title=Disneyland Challenge |publisher=Disney Editions |year=2009 |isbn=978-14231-0675-3 |pages=28}}</ref>