Snoozles™
Photos of the Jungle Cruise yield more Snoozles™ than you can shake a stick at. Whatever that means! Issues range from "same old, same old" images, photos with big silhouetted heads, or pictures of a lush jungle (and not much else).
This first Snoozle was taken as the naphtha-powered launch approached Schweitzer Falls; I wonder if the photographer knew that he was about to see the Back Side of Water? "This is my favorite part!". It's too bad that the Back Side is a a black hole, devoid of hope or happiness.
You might not know it, but there's a headhunter behind that log and that grass. Maybe even more than one! But the photographer's timing was way off, a common problem among Jungle Cruise pictures. The skull looks great though!
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Major-
The Jungle Cruise is 'the attraction that keeps on giving'. The jury is still out as to just what the attraction gives to photographers, as the images so often are merely seas of jungle flora, green water, or the backs of guests' heads-! E for effort must be given, though.
Thanks, Major.
I love the backside of water!
In that 2nd image, I think the Imagineers should add “hybrid front projection technology” to that skull.
NOT!
Ok. Yes, this one is a gen-u-ine Snoozle. No ifs, ands, or buts about it! Ya gots yer same ol', same ol', yer silhouetted heads, and yer lush jungle and not much else. A trifecta! I'm wondering though, are we looking out the back of the boat? If so, does that mean we've already seen the Back Side of Water? And does that mean the image is flip-flopped? Nevertheless, this image gets a 90% Snoozle rating. It would've gotten 100% if the picture was blurry! Nice view of the Falls though.
I agree, nice view of the skull. It's even a little out-of-focus, indicating the photographer actually got the semi-mythical headhunter in sharp focus! Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Nice colorful feathers though! I guess we'll have to wait to see actor Woody Strode another day. I think that grass is papyrus, imported all the way from the Nile!... Or maybe from a garden center a mile or two from Disneyland.
Sue, make that skull really sparkle!
Honest-to-goodness, for real, Snoozles on this Sunday. It's been a while! Thank you, Major.
”Ok. Yes, this one is a gen-u-ine Snoozle. No ifs, ands, or buts about it!
JB, did you do that on purpose? (Regarding the backside of water) Chuck will get a kick out of it, at least, anyway.
Sue, I wanna say, "Yes! I did it on purpose!", but no. Remind me of the Chuck connection?
I think the part of the Cruise we are seeing in that first pic, is the part where the boat has just passed the "front side" of Schweitzer Falls while going around a bend in the river. If a boat were to be viewing the "backside" of water at that same moment, it would be traveling from behind that lady's head, and heading towards those rocks on the left side of the pic. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I just scanned 5 Jungle Cruise slides that my dad had taken in the summer of 1966. I will be posting them next month! I must say that four of them are pretty good shots of the various figures and scenes, but the fifth one is just of a shadowy dark "wall" of bamboo. I was wondering if my dad took the pic by accident, or if there had been something he was aiming at, but missed. I will never know, but at least he took four good ones!
By the way, did anyone watch the film, "Bob Gurr: Living By Design" on PBS on Friday night? It was excellent! I didn't find out about it's airing until the last minute, otherwise I would have given a heads-up about it to everyone here.
Apparently you can watch the film free of charge, on PBS' site:
Bob Gurr: Living By Design
”It's too bad that the Back Side is a black hole, devoid of hope or happiness.”
Um, phrasing?
JB, I believe Sue was focusing on the word “but,” which is a homonym of “butt,” which, as we all know, is a cask for wine or ale, derived from the Old French botte and Medieval Latin butta, but I’m at a loss as to how you’d make a pun out of that connected with the backside of anything.
Major, I’m shaking a stick at these pictures right now. What is supposed to happen when I do that? They aren’t getting more interesting.
Photo 1, Tokyo is correct, our boat has passed in front of the Falls and is turning down the Nile segment. So technically we haven’t yet seen the back side of water, which is overrated anyway.
The skull is the best part of photo 2, especially since they have been removed from the current ride. Although I don’t understand why skulls are ok in Pirates, but not here. That headhunter is going to offer us 2 of his, for 1 of ours, which is a great deal, since 2 heads are clearly better than one, especially if we are talking about Star Wars screen writers.
Thanks Major, I’m going to put my stick away until the next batch of JC pics.
JG
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