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00:09straight ahead lies the heartline of america an old-fashioned main street
00:14hometown usa combining the color of frontier days with the oncoming excitement of the new 20th century
00:30while disneyland's super new books have always located this attraction in the main street section
00:37and while the images and animals in the diorama seem more suited to the interior
00:42the beautiful grand canyon diorama is actually situated in tomorrow night behind space mountain
00:47the diorama lines one interior wall of a long tunnel sits along the perimeter railroad track
00:53just east of the main street station like in the other attractions that park the grand canyon
00:57diorama was inspired by a disney movie in this case the oscar-winning 1958 documentary grand canyon
01:04as in that documentary the diorama bears the visually stunning images with the flip-flopping
01:09of the horses to a plane and to a message for day gross grand canyon spirit
01:15the grand canyon diorama presents a 90 second pass and one run around in the men's camp
01:20the view includes a sunrise ancient cliff dwellers ruins and a storm a 180 degree rainbow
01:27and a sunset all separated from the train by a wall of glass combining a detailed 300 foot wide
01:3334 foot tall background painting with dozens of foreground animals and hundreds of rocks and
01:39bushes and other props the diorama was touted for years as the longest in the world with a 1958 price
01:47tag estimated at 375 000 it was also most likely one of the world's most expensive certainly it is
01:54still one of the world's most realistic disney legend claude coates was its primary creator and painter
02:01the painting was done on a special seamless canvas and it required 4800 man hours to complete
02:07using 300 gallons of paint in 14 colors the diorama is kept at 74 degrees all animals are real taxidermic
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