Originally Posted By rockcow1 My DD(12) is doing her independent studies project on audio animatronics used in Disney parks and films. Does anyone know of any resources she could use? She is having a hard time finding anything other that wikipedia. Thanks!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Most of the general Imagineering coffee-table-type books have a section on AA's, but to my knowledge there aren't any books specifically about AA's. I also read something online a while back (hopefully somebody else read it too, since I can't remember what it was called) all about the creation of the AA shows for the World's Fair, and how they were painting lines onto film with metalic paint to make the circuit complete, and all the tests (including many last minute tests) they had to do, and how they compressed entire shows onto one reel, even though there was only room for 6 commands at a time on the reel. I think somebody linked it somewhere on the LP boards, but I don't even remember what section it was in. Try checking old threads in the "Disney History" section, as those tend to have a lot of helpful information in them too.
Originally Posted By crazycroc Disney Treasures DVD: Secrets, Stories, and Magic DVD An episode entitled"Disneyland goes to the World's Fair". It's primarily about AA's and their usage, without getting extremely technical. It has the shows of Carousel of Progress, Lincoln, Small World. Disneyland 10th Anniversary show from either the Disneyland USA treasure or your host Walt Disney has a Tiki Room segment. From Pirates of the Caribbean to Tomorrowland...which I believe is on one of the Pirates DVD's...or copies might be floating around somewhere. Also, I know that on Youtube they have segments about making the Haunted Mansion.
Originally Posted By crazycroc Here's an interesting article I found on the topic. Man, I wish I could have done stuff like that in school. <a href="http://members.tripod.com/labyrnth/animatronics/history/animatronics101-102/aa.html" target="_blank">http://members.tripod.com/laby.../aa.html</a>
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes Issue 25 of the "E" Ticket magazine is still available and has some very good stuff in it about AA's. <a href="http://www.the-e-ticket.com/thumbs.html" target="_blank">http://www.the-e-ticket.com/thumbs.html</a>
Originally Posted By Route66 crazycroc hooked you up. Its the best place to find info about the Animatronics, and the Walt era of Disney in General.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Post #4 was exactly what I was thinking of. I'm sure it's a little in-depth and technical, but after finding so many different sources that all said the same thing, it was really neat to see one that had a ton of really good information on how it actually works.
