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In a similar way, Walt Disney employed time-lapse cinematography to make a condensed movie record of the construction of his nine-million-dollar Disneyland project, being erected outside a Los Angeles suburb.
Disney engineers designed and constructed a battery of six 16mm cameras for time-lapse photography, and mounted them on towers erected at the most strategic spots overlooking the Disneyland site. The cameras were arranged in such a way as to cover each of the several streets. Time-lapse mechanisms set the cameras in motion once every 15 seconds during the day.
Other time-lapse shots were made by cameras mounted on tripods in the conventional manner, and the positions of these cameras were often changed daily if not several times a day. Because no fixed current source was available to operate the latter time-lapse mechanisms and camera motors, battery-operated Animatic Intervalometers, manufactured by Anson Research Company, North Hollywood, were employed to actuate the cameras in making the periodic single-frame exposures.
Some of the motion picture film thus obtained was made a part of a recent “Disneyland” television show.
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