Snoozles From August, 1970
I have some proper Snoozles™ for you today, real stinkers from beyond the grave. Well, they're not from beyond the grave, but you have to admit that that sounded cool.
One of my favorite scenes is the Sacred Elephant Bathing Pool, which was added in 1962; and of those squeaky-clean elephants, I particularly like the fellow enjoying a cool shower beneath a tropical waterfall. He's having the best time! The trouble with this photo is that it is not good.
Oh boy, how's this for a Snoozle? It looks like our photographer was suddenly inspired to try to capture a passing Keelboat. QUICK! But those Keelboats are sneaky, it slipped behind that shrub on Tom Sawyer Island in a jiffy, leaving us with this extremely "meh" images.
6 comments:
Major-
That skipper on the Keel Boat has really extended the coily cord on his handheld microphone to the max. (I can hear the cord screaming even now).
Happy Sunday, Major.
Well OK. I have to agree. The photo isn't very good. It's kinda 'busy'; we hardly notice the showering elephant. It's a little blurry, except for the foreground leaves. The baby elephant looks sort of like an afterthought, hiding in the foiliage. That said.... it's not that bad of a photo. We do see a couple of effalumps, and the waterfall, and the waterfall rocks. And the foreground leaves make a nice frame for the focal point, which unfortunately is out of focus.
Now THIS is a Snoozle! A whoooole bunch of blurry leaves! Plus, some sort-of-blurry people with their backs to us. A lotta dark, empty void. Although we do see a teepee and a mummy-wrapped corpse, which is always fun to see. :-\
Maybe this one will win "Snoozle of the Year".
An excellent way to start off a sleepy Sunday! ;-p Thanks, Major
Given that the Jungle Cruise is a very difficult attraction to photograph, I will automatically add 10 points to any photo score. But, this is a sadly blurry picture nonetheless. I do love how this AA elephant has a second career as an Instagram influencer because so many people think he is a real elephant.
The keelboat photo is very weak, nothing else to say about it. The body in the funeral circle is in the Unfriendly Indian Village on TSI, so it appears to have been taken from the Mine Train heading the opposite direction from the boat. The speed differential catches up and all we get are leaves. Thanks anyway, Major, it was worth a try.
Thanks for Snoozles today, I will set these aside for viewing again before my afternoon nap.
JG
The Elephant pool looks pretty good to me! But I pretty much see everything in "Blurzle" these days, but if you showed that to someone who didn't recognize it...they MAY think it was authentically the jungle. Pic #2 I also am enjoying...any photo of the Keelboats I enjoy...even if it's not that great. The Keelboats are like the parking lot...give me more! I was wondering what was on the employees head because it first read "Baseball Cap"....but then I looked closer. These guys had kind of a challenge...to steer the boat, say the spiel, make sure everyone was safe, avoid water traffic....I'm not sure I would be a great Keelboat ride operator...seems like a lot. "Dead body" in the distance....but no one cares. Taken from the train, so I am calling the blurzle an "action shot". That cord is definitely screaming....but I think it probably had a lot of stretch in it. You can see the rudder handle there...so how would they have spieled and steered without stretching that stretchy cord exactly like that? I find that I enjoy Snoozles(tm) quite a lot, and always find some unique attributes. Postcards are nice, but sometimes obscurity wins. Happy Sunday, and thanks Major!
Considering all the Snoozles™ you've shown us over the years it is obvious that people don't know when to turn off the 'Not Good' setting on their cameras. But, HA, I still enjoy them.
Thanks, Major,
Zach
Nanook, the cord does look stretched, but the skipper had to be at the tiller, so maybe it was designed to stretch that far?
JB, don’t make excuses for these photos! They’re awful! I didn’t even notice the baby elephant, that’s how invisible he is. That Keelboat photo should have gone right in the trash when the photographer got his box back from the Photomat, but for some reason he saved it. Maybe he liked that microphone cord.
JG, I assume you could request a seat at the front of a Jungle Cruise boat, and maybe even do two rides, one on the left, and one on the right, so that you could get unimpeded pictures of all of the good stuff? I’m too lazy to do that, but other people might be willing. Somehow I can’t see photo #2 being taken by a Mine Train, but I could be wrong.
Bu, you are being way to lenient! That elephant bathing pool photo is askew, and partly obscured by boat railings, and… and… it was cursed by a witch. I didn’t mention it before, but it’s true. They will never have another ride like the Keelboats, those were too slow, too “boring”, and had a low ridership capacity. Even though they could tie it to their own Davy Crockett IP, nobody under 60 cares about that anymore. I wonder if they had to replace those stretchy cords on the Keelboats often, since you’d think that they would fatigue after not very long? And then… SNAP. Hit right in the face by a stretchy cord.
zach, I can’t really throw stones, since I take many crummy photos, but some vintage examples make me feel pretty good about my own abilities!
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