Walt Disney Productions is now occupying its spacious new plant at Burbank. The property covers 51 acres, 23 of which are under roof. Natural gas is used throughout for air conditioning, hot water and steam, and in the restaurant.
A few of the outstanding features of the Disney plant include the most extensive fresh air conditioning system in the West, furniture designed and built especially for the Disney needs, one of the most attractive studio restaurants in the film capital, service station and garage for employees, and penthouse gymnasium and lounge for the artists.
The central heating plant consists of two 190 h.p. boilers equipped with gas burners. It serves the air conditioning units, automatically controlled in 158 zones. The exacting requirements of all the work here call for constancy of temperature and humidity. From the central plant hot water and steam are piped to the animation building (3 floors, 143,000 sq. ft.) to the cutting, camera, inkers' and painters' buildings and to the paint and processing laboratories.
In addition to the central plant there are individual air conditioning and heating units in the orchestra stage, theater, dialogue stage, live action stage and restaurant. This makes it possible to operate in any one of these locations independently when the central plant is not in operation, as at night or on Sundays and holidays.
Several full-length productions, involving new types of colorful and exciting animation, are now in production at the new plant, which houses approximately 1,000 studio employees.
