Jungle Cruise Views, 1970s
SNOOZLES™! I have two kind of boring Jungle Cruise photos for you. And... looking at this first one makes me wonder if I accidentally scanned it the wrong way. Shouldn't the giraffes be on the right? It's known now that giraffes prefer to stand to the right out in nature. Something to do with the Earth's magnetic field and the constellations and crypto-currency. In other words, I accept no responsibility, and blame teenagers.
The Lost Safari has spent an awful long time on that strange branchless tree. In fact, that tree is so odd that I wonder if it was always supposed to look that way. I wish I had my Marc Davis book handy, but again, I blame those teenagers. This scene has undergone recent changes that I have no problem with, that dumb hunter should get the point!
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The first one just might be reversed as you said. Still, these are nice Jungle Cruise pics. I always thought it would be cool if they had an A.A. Boa constrictor putting the squeeze on a human A.A. safari hunter with the eyes bulging out. If only.
Thanks, Major.
A whole new perspective on the African Veldt scene! It's like seeing it for the first time:
♫ Like a veldt scene,
Flipped for the very first time. ♫
Hmmm, the fearless hunter at the top of the odd tree seems to be twisting his head around a bit too much... Linda Blair style. Rhinos are such weird-looking creatures; very prehistoric. They don't belong in our time. I think they came here through a Time Portal, like the one that Kirk, Spock, and McCoy went through.
Major, your 'accidental' reversed image and commentary made these Snoozles worth the price of admission. Every day should be Snoozle day!... Well, maybe not.
Yes, the first image is flipped, but that's okay. It gives us a gnu look at an old familiar scene.
JB, were you writhing around on the floor, while you were singing that? I certainly hope so!
Happy SNOOZLES™ Day, everyone!
I don’t think that first one is flipped. I can read the watermark just fine.
Major, that first photo is fine, the giraffes have wheels and were rolled about from one side to the other during updates.
You’re right, the Lost Safari scene update is possibly even better than the original, adds a bit of tension to the experience. “That might have been us…”
I don’t recall the JC before the scene was added, but I do remember my parents laughing at it when it was new. Not sure when that might have been.
Thanks for Snoozles.
JG
Major-
"In fact, that tree is so odd that I wonder if it was always supposed to look that way".
Your wish is my command... From what I can tell, that's exactly how it always looked. And originally designed to 'tease' riders on "The Grand Circle Tour", [and reversed staging from what ultimately appeared in the Jungle Cruise], until Walt saw the model... "God, no! Oh, hell, Marc, that's too good - we've gotta put it inside the ride!" Ride you say, Walt... I won't argue.
@ JG-
That scene was added in 1964 - and based on what I can find - early Summer of that year.
Thanks, Major.
Happy Snoozles TM. I don't have too much to add...flipped slides, "getting it, in the end"....I do enjoy laughing hyenas and the Small World scene is a nice little nod to this vignette if that was the intent. I went to a lovely party in Nairobi, and the Majordomo of the house wore a fez like these guys. It was like traveling back in time, and the backyard was amazing with gigantic trees filled with chattering monkeys. They had different colored up-lights on all of the trees, and the entire night was quite magical...before we started the trek out into the wild tundra. The Jungle Cruise is very authentic, and Mark Davis's bits and bobs are very much what you would encounter on Safari. We were chased by Elephants, Baboons, a Rhino...all very real...the baboons wanted the corn on the cob we stopped for about a block away...they are large...and were reaching into our speeding jeep trying to grab at the corn cobs: Me: shrieking like a 10 year old girl: "throw the corn out! Throw the corn out!" EVERYONE was screaming, lot's of hand gesturing and movements with our driver staying the course calmly..... and after we threw the corn out, we were all shrieking with laughter. Note about road side corn in Kenya: if you stop: eat it there: they have Masai there with sling shots to keep the wildlife at bay...as soon as you leave the little stand...you are on your own.... Africa: home to amazing and hilarious scenes, not unlike what is depicted in the Jungle Cruise. Thanks for the Snoozles!
Snoozies...when you saw the scene a million (OK probably fewer than that, I'm exaggerating) times....everything looked a bit flipped! Time to enter the Hippo Pool!! Watch your speed!! KS
K. Martinez, I’ve heard that they come in ones and twozels! Not sure how I wound up reversing the first pic, normally I am pretty careful about that thing. Unless it was in a plain slide mount, which sometimes happens.
JB, it’s funny, even when I was a kid I thought it was unfair that the white hunter got to be at the top of the tree trunk. I’m not sure I really thought about WHY it was unfair. Rhinos are so cool, I’ve always loved them. Elephants too. Probably because of their unusual appearance.
TokyoMagic!, ZOIKS. JB was chair dancing. You know what I mean. We all do it.
Chuck, the watermark appears to be correct due to the Coriolis Effect.
JG, it is amazing that evolution would provide wheels for those magnificent creatures. Somewhere on my blog I have a photo in which I believe the Lost Safari is being installed, if I had time I’d link to it.
Nanook, I’ll bet we can find plenty of examples of Walt using that four letter word (“ride”). Yes, he used other four letter words too. Unlike me, I am always proper and polite. I’ll bet the scene was added in 1964 because of the popularity of the Beatles. Makes perfect sense!
Bu, I think I remember reading that hyenas were offensive to some people. Hey, it’s not my culture, I don’t understand it, but I always liked the laughing hyenas in IASW, they way they were sort of rolling around on their backs. “I went to a lovely party in Nairobi”, well la-di-da! I went to a party in Oxnard, what do you think of that? No Majordomos there. But I, Major Pepperidge was there, and that’s even better. I would freak out if baboons were chasing a vehicle that I was in; those apes are scary. Giant incisors! Yes, throw them the corn, for gosh sakes. Is there a baby in the jeep? Throw that too, just as long as I am safe! (Do I really need to point out that I am joking?). A slingshot is sufficient to keep marauding wildlife at bay? What about a Nerf gun?
KS, I would think that seeing the Jungle Cruise that many times would drive a person a little crazy. I honestly wonder if I would have the fortitude to deal with it!
Tokyo!, yes. Writhing around on the floor AND wearing my very best 10" pointy bustier!
Bu, thanks for the corny baboon story. Funny and, as Major says, dangerous at the same time. And yes, I will adhere to your advice, next time I find myself eating corn on the cob in Kenya.
Major, for a long time I thought that rhinos were covered in stiff, unyielding plates, like armadillos or turtles. It wasn't until much later (3 weeks ago) that I found out that it's just how their thick skin is folded.
I worked on a project in Nairobi once, never went there. All the parties were in Belvedere, I went to those.
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Nanook, thanks.
JG
JB, I had to go back and read TokyoMagic’s comment to make sense of YOUR comment. I’m not sure it worked! “Corn on the Cob in Kenya” is part three of my autobiography. Not for the kids! In ye olden days I believe that people (Albrecht Durer, for one) also thought that rhinos were covered in hard plates.
JG, it would have been quite an adventure to do a project in Nairobi! Maybe you could have gone to see the Nairobi Trio live in concert, too. Better than the Beatles.
Major, I just looked at an illustration of Durer's rhinoceros... even weirder than what I imagined. It looks like a cross between medieval armor and Granny's bloomers.
An Ernie Kovacs reference!
There’s quite a lot of Skipper material generated today. Fun comments.
So, rhinos are actually wrinkly. Just toss them in the dryer with a super-wet washcloth, for maybe two minutes. Wrinkle-free! Works every time with my delicate blouses.
I always love Jungle Cruise Snoozles. Thanks, Major.
Sue
I think Durer’s rhino was based on the Indian rhinoceros, which looks more like it is covered in bony plates than any of the African rhino species.
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