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Circarama U.S.A.--Disneyland History--TMS-573
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6/30/2025
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It sparked an idea.
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He posed a technical challenge to his longtime collaborator and co-creator of Mickey Mouse,
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Ub Iwerks.
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If they can put three screens together, why can't we do a full circle?
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Ub answered with a new invention, Circarama.
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My dad's joy was solving problems, number one, for Walt.
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He designed this circular rig, a round, big brown plate, with 11 16-millimeter cameras
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on it, like spokes in a wheel.
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The cameras were all interlocked together with a chain drive inside the base, so they would
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all run in synchronization.
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The thing you'd always worry about is, what if you lost a loop, or if you had a film jam
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in a camera, then you didn't lose just the one, you lost all 11 of them.
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In the early days, Walt walked through, and he folded his arms as he would, and he said,
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well, he says, yeah, it's pretty good.
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And I think to him, I said, pretty good.
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It's sensational.
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He says, someday, though, there'll be technology where there'll be a screen all the way around
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it and all over the ceiling, and you'll be immersed in it, and there won't be any screens.
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Well...
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Circarama soon evolved into circle...
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In 1952, This Is Cinerama introduced American audiences to multiple screen movies.
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Within a few years, major motion pictures were utilizing the Cinerama three-screen projection
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system.
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Unimpressed Walt Disney decided he would go Cinerama one better at Disneyland.
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Soon, Disney legend John Hinch was drawing up a concept illustration with Grand Canyon images
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displayed in the round.
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The original camera was mounted on an AMC car to shoot the footage.
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This opening day, Disneyland attraction featured a film entitled Tour of the West.
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Here are a couple shots of the projection system for Cinerama.
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This was not that good, it's true.
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It's a great experience.
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It was a big experience.
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There will be some more at the time as an artist.
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The most rival they were about to show you a career.
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The most rival is the most rival I'd like to show you on time.
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That's the most rival I'd like.
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This is not a family artist.
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It's a very beautiful person in the world, but keep driving through my car and the world in the
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world.
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I was trying to show you a great way.
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It's so fun.
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We would have to show you the most important thing.
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You would have to know?
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And I've got to know you.
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That this is a movie.
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I'm like, is a movie.
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