Circarama U.S.A.--Disneyland History--TMS-573

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00:09It sparked an idea.

00:24He posed a technical challenge to his longtime collaborator and co-creator of Mickey Mouse,

00:31Ub Iwerks.

00:32If they can put three screens together, why can't we do a full circle?

00:37Ub answered with a new invention, Circarama.

00:43My dad's joy was solving problems, number one, for Walt.

00:49He designed this circular rig, a round, big brown plate, with 11 16-millimeter cameras

00:56on it, like spokes in a wheel.

00:58The cameras were all interlocked together with a chain drive inside the base, so they would

01:03all run in synchronization.

01:05The thing you'd always worry about is, what if you lost a loop, or if you had a film jam

01:10in a camera, then you didn't lose just the one, you lost all 11 of them.

01:14In the early days, Walt walked through, and he folded his arms as he would, and he said,

01:20well, he says, yeah, it's pretty good.

01:21And I think to him, I said, pretty good.

01:23It's sensational.

01:24He says, someday, though, there'll be technology where there'll be a screen all the way around

01:29it and all over the ceiling, and you'll be immersed in it, and there won't be any screens.

01:34Well...

01:35Circarama soon evolved into circle...

01:40In 1952, This Is Cinerama introduced American audiences to multiple screen movies.

01:45Within a few years, major motion pictures were utilizing the Cinerama three-screen projection

01:50system.

01:51Unimpressed Walt Disney decided he would go Cinerama one better at Disneyland.

01:55Soon, Disney legend John Hinch was drawing up a concept illustration with Grand Canyon images

02:00displayed in the round.

02:02The original camera was mounted on an AMC car to shoot the footage.

02:06This opening day, Disneyland attraction featured a film entitled Tour of the West.

02:16Here are a couple shots of the projection system for Cinerama.

02:19This was not that good, it's true.

02:21It's a great experience.

02:22It was a big experience.

02:24There will be some more at the time as an artist.

02:25The most rival they were about to show you a career.

02:29The most rival is the most rival I'd like to show you on time.

02:32That's the most rival I'd like.

02:33This is not a family artist.

02:34It's a very beautiful person in the world, but keep driving through my car and the world in the

02:35world.

02:36I was trying to show you a great way.

02:37It's so fun.

02:39We would have to show you the most important thing.

02:41You would have to know?

02:42And I've got to know you.

02:43That this is a movie.

02:45I'm like, is a movie.

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