Disneyland Around the Seasons makes for a fascinating comparison point — not just for the Disneyland of then versus now, but the wider world of popular culture. Although this is listed as a standalone feature on Disney+, it was originally aired as an episode of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color where, as the title suggests, the main selling point is nothing more than the presence of color photography. The opening credits are literally kaleidoscopes and choral voices cooing over and over about color.

And Disneyland with its colorful attractions and parades is an ideal subject for a show where being able to see a broad spectrum of hues is novelty enough. Can’t go to Disneyland? Well here’s what it looks like, in color, with Disney himself as your host and tour guide.

Still, the program was not just designed for TV viewers in 1966 with Disneyland FOMO. As with so much of Disney, this is as much a piece of entertainment as it is marketing for the broader Disney company and its theme park. Ostensibly structured as a recap of news and attractions over the last last year at the “Happiest Place on Earth,” the notion of going “around the seasons” allows Disney to sell his latest batch of attractions to potential customers via extended previews.

Here is another way to compare then and now. When Disney’s cameras take you inside It’s a Small World, you see practically the whole ride. In the segment about Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln, the audio-animatronic Abraham Lincoln gives an unabridged five-minute speech about liberty. The last third of the show is just Disneyland’s Christmas parade, which is a wild thing to behold in an of itself. (You don’t see too many actual dogs dressed as humans walking other dogs in Disneyland parades these days.)

No concern about spoilers exists anywhere. Disney himself chuckles in his voiceover that there’s plenty more of these attractions to see for yourself when you come to Disneyland but ... not really. At least not in every case. No offense to Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln, which I saw on my last Disneyland trip and is itself a fascinating time capsule, but there isn’t much more to it than what you see in Disneyland Around the Seasons. In fact, it might be better on TV, because you get multiple angles and close-ups. If you’re in the back row of the Opera House on Main Street, your view won’t be nearly as good as that robot pontificates about the spirit of America for 15 minutes.

I suppose you could argue that you can’t fully “experience” something like New Orleans Square over a television, and the show whets your appetite just enough to you want to book a trip. But this is way more than a taste. You compare what is shown and what is withheld in this hourlong film to something like a commercial for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and the differences is quite striking.

Peer around the edges of the frame and you’ll also get glimpses into fashion, hairstyles, music, and technology of the 1960s. Of course, there is also Disney himself; friendly, genteel, but also a little sad looking. I had never heard him sound so tired before. That made sense after I Googled the film; it originally aired on December 18, 1966, three days after Disney’s death.

Disney had recorded the entire season’s worth of introductions prior to his death, so he continued appearing on The Wonderful World of Color for several more months. And now, just in time for Disneyland’s 50th anniversary, Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln is getting overhauled in favor of an audio-animatronic show starring ... Walt Disney himself. Soon Disney himself will give guests a tour through Disneyland around the seasons in person. I wonder what the Disneyland guests of 2084 will think of that.