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00:24And then at the last moment, Walt wanted yet another figure,
00:28President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln,
00:31to be the most advanced figure he could get done.
00:34Ever since I was a small boy in Illinois,
00:36I've had a great personal admiration for Abraham Lincoln.
00:40So when we decided to recreate some of the great moments
00:43in Mr. Lincoln's life for the World's Fair,
00:46we directed all our energies to that task.
00:49We wanted to bring to the people of today
00:51the inspiring words of the man who held this nation together
00:55during its moment of greatest crisis, the Civil War.
00:59Now, to recreate a truly lifelike image of Lincoln,
01:03we use our new medium of audio-animatronics.
01:06To start with, we were fortunate in being able to secure this
01:11life mask of the 16th president.
01:14How do we get this blank?
01:15This is actually a copy of an original life mask
01:18by the sculptor Leonard Volk in Chicago in 1860.
01:22Before Lincoln was president.
01:24Before Lincoln was president.
01:25Before he had a beard.
01:26That's right.
01:27Now, with this to start with, our sculptor Blaine Gibson
01:30has been able to create this very accurate likeness
01:33of this great man.
01:35Well, we found out that he'd worked for about a year
01:38with a machine shop and they had a figure
01:40and it absolutely would not work.
01:41He was very, very disappointed.
01:43And since I only do cars, I don't do animated figures,
01:47he called me over to the studio and showed me this Lincoln
01:50and he says, I want twice as many moves and half as much weight
01:54and get started.
01:55I was shocked because I had never designed a human,
01:58but I immediately saw Abraham Lincoln as an airplane fuselage.
02:02Lightweight, thin tube, aerospace controls, valves,
02:07even aircraft bearings, little tiny bearings to make the figure out of.
02:12I designed that entire figure, not the head, not the hands,
02:16but the entire figure mechanically and all the elevator equipment
02:20down below that operates the figure so it climbs out of the chair.
02:23I did that in 90 days.
02:29This video is a peek at engineers testing the Abraham Lincoln animatronic.
02:33Unfortunately, there was no audio with this video clip.
02:36A decade of advances in audio animatronic technology culminated in 1964
02:41with the creation of a mechanical Abraham Lincoln.
02:44Lincoln, however, was by far the most ambitious audio animatronic project yet.
02:48Not only did he look and sound exactly like the very famous,
02:52very dignified public figure, he also had a wide range of complex motions.
02:57The first Lincoln figure built in 1964 was shown at the World's Fair.
03:01The second Lincoln figure built was a spare never shown to the public.
03:05The third Lincoln figure built in 1965 was a revised design and shown in the World's Fair second year.
03:12The fourth Lincoln built in 1965 was shown at Disneyland Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.
03:18The fifth Lincoln figure built in 1971 was shown at Walt Disney World.
03:23The Lincoln figure rises and speaks, delivering his address with complete coordination of speech and movements,
03:29including many mannerisms of the 16th president.
03:36To Disneyland's visitors, some great moments in Mr. Lincoln's life.
03:41We began an exhaustive research.
03:44We studied his mannerisms, his gestures, and even his voice characteristics.
03:50Above all, we wanted to create a faithful physical likeness in this audio animatronic figure of Mr. Lincoln.
03:56The audio animatronic show ends with a dramatic finale in which Lincoln is seated against a backdrop of the Capitol dome bathed in dawn light,
04:04while a large but unseen choir sings the majestic battle hymn of the Republic,
04:09as its voices moved through the theater toward the stage.
04:12When we held the opening ceremonies, it was a great occasion for all of us.
04:26Now, let's go into the Opera House and listen carefully to the words of Mr. Lincoln, spoken by him a century ago,
04:43but which still apply today to free men everywhere.
04:48The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty.
05:09And the American people, just now, are much in want of one.
05:22We all declare for liberty.
05:27But in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing.
05:34What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence?
05:42This is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts.
05:49These are not our reliance against tyranny.
05:54Our reliance is in the love of liberty, which God has planted in our bosom.
06:05Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit, which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all land, everywhere.
06:20Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
06:30At what point shall we expect the approach of danger?
06:40By what means shall we fortify against it?
06:45Shall we expect some of a transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us in a blow?
06:58Never.
07:01All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined could not by force take a drink from the Ohio
07:15or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
07:22At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected?
07:33I answer that if it ever reaches us, it must spring from amongst us.
07:44It cannot come from abroad.
07:48As a nation of free men, we must live through all time or die by suicide.
08:01Let reverence for the law be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap.
08:13Let it be taught in the schools, in the seminaries, and in the colleges.
08:19Let it be written in primers, in spelling books and almanac.
08:24And in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
08:39And let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave and the gay, as they were for his.
08:52And now, the skills of the sculptor and the talents of the artist will let us relive great moments of Mr. Lincoln.
09:02The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty.
09:21And the American people, just now, are much in want of what?
09:33We all declare for liberty.
09:37But in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing.
09:47What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence?
09:54It is not our crowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts.
10:02These are not our reliance against it.
10:05The world of 20th century technology and artistry called audio animatronics is combined with words spoken in another century by a man for all the ages.
10:17Great moments with Mr. Lincoln.
10:20The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty.
10:32And the American people, just now, are much in want of what?
10:41We all declare for liberty.
10:50But in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing.
10:56Specs. Capacity 2,500 per hour. Capacity per show, 500. Cycle time, 20 minutes.
10:59Load time, 2 minutes. Unload time, 2 minutes. Show time, 15 minutes. Show interval, 12 minutes.
11:02Shows per hour, 5.
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11:26We can't do much.
11:27I don't know.
11:28Happy birthday, so pod étant and amin.
11:37Playlist.
11:39WatchingegalHaleH contexto and insanity talking about politics and material shame.

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