Disneyland Unveils Audio Animatronics
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An entirely new medium of three dimensional entertainment which took more than 10 years to perfect at a cost of more than $1 million, is now open to the public at Disneyland.
Based on the use of advanced space-age technological developments, a unique system, christened "Audio Animatronics," was developed to produce a combination of sound effects, including human voices and music fully synchronized to ...
Basie Swings At Disneyland
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Count Basie and his internationally famous orchestra will open a six night engagement at Disneyland Friday in an explosive jazz salute to the Independence Day Holiday.
In Disneyland's summer, long parade of big bands, Count Basie leads the way with unique piano styling and a solid rhythm which have made his band famous ever since his "One O'clock Jump" took the country by storm nearly 25 years ago.
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Dazzled In Disneyland
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In the third decade of this century America produced a young man of genius. He drew pictures with pen and ink and wash. Like other geniuses, such as Michelangelo, Leonardo and Bernini, he had a mechanical turn of mind; and, by means of all sorts of devices, he made his drawings into motion pictures which were works of art. He drew animals to perfection. With care and his knowledge of mechanics he made ...
Magic Worlds Of Walt Disney
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Disneyland really started more than 20 years ago, when Walt got the idea for an amusement park that grownups as well as children would enjoy.
"I had all my drawing things laid out at home, and I'd work on plans for the park, as a hobby, at night."
At the time, amusement parks were dying all over the country, "I talked Disneyland but no one could see it," Walt recalled. "So I went ahead and spent my ...
Tommy Dorsey Group At Disneyland Sunday
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Disneyland recreates another swinging chapter of the big band era beginning Sunday with the appearance of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra featuring Frank Sinatra Jr., the Pied Pipers and Helen Forrest.
A surprise addition to the summer long parade of big bands at Disneyland, the Dorsey aggregation is under the direction of top bandsman Sam Donahue.
Young Sinatra's appearance will be something of a ...
Onward And Upward With The Arts
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One day last year in Los Angeles, as I was about to step aboard a helicopter that would take me to Disneyland with my teen-aged son and daughter, these two, smiling wanly, nodded toward a tourist poster that gave equal billing to our destination and to Forest Lawn cemetery. Their gesture reminded me that in earlier years they had wasted hundreds of child-hours vainly urging me to bring them on this very ...
