Photos for Disney, Indiana Episode 417 – The Man (Men) Behind the Brand
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Circarama Camera System
During the planning of Disneyland, Walt asked Ub Iwerks if he could build a camera that could photograph a full circle, creating a film that would surround the audience. Ub's solution was a system consisting of eleven 16 mm Kodak Cine Special cameras, mounted on a common circular base plate, with lenses radiating outward like spokes in a wheel. The system was named "Circarama."
The Circarama Theatre became a popular Disneyland attraction with the film A Tour of the West. The theater comprised eleven semicircular screens, arranged in a circle surrounding the audience. Small gaps between the screens allowed the projectors, located behind the screens, to project across the theater to screens on the opposite side, creating a continuous 360-degree movie.
Further developments followed: a new Circarama film, America the Beautiful, in the late 1950s, and later an improved 35mm camera and projection system renamed "Circlevision."

The Disneyland of the Imagination
This elaborate Disneyland model does not document the park as it actually existed on opening day, nor at any time afterward. Instead, it represents Walt's ever changing vision of Disneyland as a dynamic location for fantasy, hope, and aspiration.
"I'll have a lot of things in there, but only half of what I want to do in there eventually. You see these things I want to keep adding, keep plussing.... Disneyland is a thing that I can keep molding and shaping. It's a three-dimensional thing to play with. But when I say play with it I don't mean that-everything l do, I keep a practical eye toward its appeal to the public, you see?" —Walt Disney

Fantasyland - The Disneyland of the Imagination
This elaborate Disneyland model does not document the park as it actually existed on opening day, nor at any time afterward. Instead, it represents Walt's ever changing vision of Disneyland as a dynamic location for fantasy, hope, and aspiration.
"I'll have a lot of things in there, but only half of what I want to do in there eventually. You see these things I want to keep adding, keep plussing.... Disneyland is a thing that I can keep molding and shaping. It's a three-dimensional thing to play with. But when I say play with it I don't mean that-everything l do, I keep a practical eye toward its appeal to the public, you see?" —Walt Disney

The Disneyland of the Imagination
Monorail, Submarines, Matterhorn, Autopoia and the Carousel of Progress in the Disneyland of the Imagination.
This elaborate Disneyland model does not document the park as it actually existed on opening day, nor at any time afterward. Instead, it represents Walt's ever changing vision of Disneyland as a dynamic location for fantasy, hope, and aspiration.
Walt Disney Family Museum

The Disneyland of the Imagination
This elaborate Disneyland model does not document the park as it actually existed on opening day, nor at any time afterward. Instead, it represents Walt's ever changing vision of Disneyland as a dynamic location for fantasy, hope, and aspiration.
"I'll have a lot of things in there, but only half of what I want to do in there eventually. You see these things I want to keep adding, keep plussing.... Disneyland is a thing that I can keep molding and shaping. It's a three-dimensional thing to play with. But when I say play with it I don't mean that-everything l do, I keep a practical eye toward its appeal to the public, you see?" —Walt Disney
Walt Disney Family Museum

The Disneyland of the Imagination
This elaborate Disneyland model does not document the park as it actually existed on opening day, nor at any time afterward. Instead, it represents Walt's ever changing vision of Disneyland as a dynamic location for fantasy, hope, and aspiration.
"I'll have a lot of things in there, but only half of what I want to do in there eventually. You see these things I want to keep adding, keep plussing.... Disneyland is a thing that I can keep molding and shaping. It's a three-dimensional thing to play with. But when I say play with it I don't mean that-everything l do, I keep a practical eye toward its appeal to the public, you see?" —Walt Disney
Walt Disney Family Museum

The Disneyland of the Imagination
This elaborate Disneyland model does not document the park as it actually existed on opening day, nor at any time afterward. Instead, it represents Walt's ever changing vision of Disneyland as a dynamic location for fantasy, hope, and aspiration.
"I'll have a lot of things in there, but only half of what I want to do in there eventually. You see these things I want to keep adding, keep plussing.... Disneyland is a thing that I can keep molding and shaping. It's a three-dimensional thing to play with. But when I say play with it I don't mean that-everything l do, I keep a practical eye toward its appeal to the public, you see?" —Walt Disney
Walt Disney Family Museum

Lady and the Tramp - Lady in a Hat Box
In the opening scene of Lay and the Tramp, a puppy pops out of a wrapped hat box underneath the Christmas tree. This scene was inspired by the true story of Walt gifting his wife Lillian a little Chow puppy named Sunnee. Lillian justifiably thought she was receiving a hat and was in the middle of scolding her husband that she did not want him to purchase a hat for her when she was pleasantly surprised by the new canine companion inside.
Part of the Disney Cats & Dogs exhibit.