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From: royt@gatech.CSNET (Roy M Turner)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <2267@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 15:25:07 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 15 15:25:07 1985
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Summary: Flames in Pirates of the Carribean

In article <53600015@trsvax>, gm@trsvax writes:
> 
> The same thing is done in several of the rides at Disney World. For
> example, during the very last part of "Pirates of the Carribean", you pass
> through a town which has been plundered. The flames are leaping into the
> air and around the windows of several of the buildings. Some of the flames
> are real, but they are well separated from anything flammable. The "flames"
> in the buildings are really film (or videotape) of flames projected upon a
> semi-mirrored surface in front of the interior of the buildings. So it
> appears that the windows are on fire, but you can still see the furniture
> inside.
> 

Well, take a closer look at the flames next time--sure looked to me as if
they were just orange lights projected onto a cellophane "screen" that was 
being blown or shaken about.  Nothing as fancy as real flames projected on a 
mirror, I'm afraid.

I have a question for you folks, though--in the haunted house, how do they
manage the talking head in the crystal ball, if not via holograms?  You can
see it from any angle (ie, you see the side of her head as you come upon 
the set, then the front, and it's all continuous).  Same with the figurine
of a woman above the exit.  Any ideas?

Roy