I often can't tell is a slide is a bona-fide Snoozle™ until I've scanned the thing, and that was definitely the case with this first example. Holding the slide up to my light table, I was happy to see a photo of the blue Mark II Monorail about to pull into the station at the Disneyland Hotel. Cool! Only it wasn't cool, because it's blurry. I was disappointed, but we must persevere. I guess. You know what else isn't cool? Playing hooky and sassing your teachers.
You'd think I would be sick of pictures of the Burning Settler's Cabin, but for some reason I always enjoy seeing it. Maybe because it has been gone for so long? This one is in focus (though it could be sharper), and I do like the fact that the cabin itself is engulfed in flames, but the image was dark and murky, even after some Photoshoppin'.
Major-
ReplyDeleteI've always appreciated that the poor settler was always propped-up at an acute angle, perhaps facing Mecca - or maybe just Fort Wilderness, backed-up by flames.
Thanks, Major.
Major, obviously you don't know what you have here! This is an extremely rare "waterdrop photo" (worth at least $2,000 on eBay) taken with a film camera that uses a drop of water for its lens. Waterdrop photos are always in focus; distant objects as well as close objects. This is due to the shape of the tiny waterdrop. Unfortunately, also due to the shape of the waterdrop lens, the photos always have a watery, bleary appearance. This is why waterdrop cameras fell out of favor after only a few months on the market. That, and the fact that the drop of water had to be replaced every few minutes due to evaporation. And if the camera was jostled a little too hard the waterdrop would be knocked out of its retaining armature.
ReplyDelete'Somebody' is going to be happy to see all those power lines!
Wow, this is a really nice photo of the Burning Cabin! So close! So many flames! And we can actually see what Carl Arrowshirt looks like! I just noticed that the arrow is red & white striped. I wonder if that was something that some tribes actually did?
I'm a gonna be keepin' this here one.
These pics are just barely on the Snoozle Scale; the first one because of the blur, the second one because it's a little dark. Thanks, Major.
In the first pic, we can see the Princess Motel's sign near the far right of the photo.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if a dead branch from a tree ever fell on the Burning Cabin and then caught on fire? Leaves and/or pine needles must have encountered the flames every once in a while. I guess it wasn't enough to start a bigger fire, otherwise we probably would have heard about it.
The monorail view is what I see without my glasses, and still holds my interest. Bonus: the Back Side of the DLH sign and the Western Airlines sign. I was never sure if the monorail route was changed with DCA / DTD but now I think it was, there’s not enough room for the Lego store inside that turn.
ReplyDeleteThis view of Carl makes it look like he was shot from a helicopter. Very steep angle of entry, and the hazards of smoking in bed. Yes, positive marks for the quantity of flames too!
Thanks Major, very enjoyable!
JG
Nanook, it never occurred to me that the settler could be facing Mecca, I hope this news becomes the official record on Disney websites!
ReplyDeleteJB, a waterdrop photo, eh? I would use Gatorade, personally. It gots electrolytes! I don’t know what those are, but by golly, it’s got them. I’m interested in the mechanics of the waterdrop camera and will build my own using Lego bricks. And Gatorade (“cherry ice” flavor). I feel like that *would* be a nice photo of the burning cabin if it wasn’t so dark, but as you point out, we do get a pretty good look at the settler himself, so that is a bonus.
TokyoMagic!, very nice, thank you for pointing out the Princess Motel sign! I’ve wondered the same thing about the burning cabin, in some photos the encroaching trees look surprisingly close to the flames. I didn’t even think about a falling branch. Did they turn the cabin’s flames off during Santa Ana winds?
JG, readers love to see the Disneyland sign (and slides showing it can go for a lot), but I somehow have more photos of the back of the Disneyland Hotel sign. That being said, I did just scan a pretty good view of the actual Disneyland Sign! See it in about a year, ha ha. I don’t know about helicopters, but everyone had their own hot air balloon in the 1800s!