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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.sci,net.rec.photo
Subject: Re: Holograms at Disneyland
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Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 10:56:40 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 27 10:56:40 1985
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Summary: I BELIEVE THE HAUNTED CASTLE *DOES* HAVE A FEW

In article <520@harvard.UUCP> sasaki@harvard.UUCP (Marty sasaki) writes:
>I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but the "holograms" in the Haunted
>Mansion ride at Disneland (Disneyworld may be different) are not
>holograms... The talking (and singing) heads are frosted plastic heads
>with a magic optical system which projects the features onto the
>inside of the sculpted heads. The ghosts which join you are just
>reflections from carefully placed puppets.

Disney World and Disneyland are essentially the same in the props they
use in their rides, I believe. (I haven't experienced Disneyland; I only
know from what I saw on TV that it is very similar to DW.)

You are right, of course, about the plastic heads and the puppets.
However, at least at Disney World's version of the Haunted Castle, there
is a segment of the haunted ride where you are taken by a large
picture window, through which you can see a bunch of ghostly figures
dancing around a gothic banquet hall. This has to be done by holograms;
I can't see any other way they could have gotten those 3-D images. Also
the fact that you have to see it through a tinted-looking window 
suggests that this is a hologram. Another scene that might be done with
holograms is the scene where you are looking down an infinite haunted
hallway, and a candlestick moves about from room to room across the
hall.

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(The views expressed herein are not real; they were simulated by
mirrors and holograms. Dave Kirby is also not real, though nobody has
ever attempted to simulate him.)