Casey Jones Junior, 1956
Here are two more scans from some oversized (120 format) transparencies - both featuring Casey Jones Junior as he pulled the colorful circus train through Storybook Land. I've always loved the way Casey looks just like his cartoon counterpart. The driver sees us taking his picture, and is frankly sick of the paparazzi. "Don't they understand that I am a person, with feelings and needs like the shmucks I look down upon?". He's a work in progress.
A second photo reveals that the canal (for the Storybook Land Canal Boats) is empty for some reason - a worker of some sort is partly obscured by a fence pole to the right. Could this be from the early days before all of the charming miniature vignettes were added to Storybook Land? After two months of operation, the Canal Boats closed while Storybook Land was constructed and the muddy banks were landscaped with miniature plants, including a bonsai tree planted by Walt Disney himself. It seems very possible!
Hey, why not zoom in, since these large-format transparencies are high-quality? We can see the fearsome Wild Animals, both wearing pink dresses.
2 comments:
Those are some very lovely weeds, in that first pic.
Major, that second pic is a very rare shot of the installation of the giant "quilt" from the Disney short, "Lullaby Land." We can see that Toad Hall had not yet been placed on that point of land on the far left. A rare shot, indeed! Thanks for sharing!
Hmm, the Casey Jr. driver looks suspiciously like the villainous "Agent Smith" in "The Matrix". Does that mean that all of us are in the Matrix and don't realize it? Maybe I should try bending some tableware with my mind. I think this photo needs some more blue sky. ;-)
Maybe that's Walt behind the pole, planting his bonsai tree!!! OK, probably not. We gots us some power poles in this here photygraph.
Wild animals with pink dresses are the most dangerous of all! Their pink coloration comes from the bloodstains of their prey... or maybe from eating crustaceans, like flamingos do.
And look! The monkeys in the monkey cage are all wearing red. That means they're angry. And when monkeys get angry, they fling 'stuff'.
Tokyo!, And then they replaced those lovely weeds with miniature trees and shrubs and cottages, and castles and stuff... TRE!
I always enjoy these large format slides, Major. Thanks.
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