IN MEMORY OFOUR PATRIARCH
DEAR DEPARTED
Grandpa
Marc
One of Disney's legendary "Nine Old Men"of animation, Marc Davis also stands as one of the most influential and creative forces in the history of theme park design. His clever and highly detailed concepts were the basis for the audio-animatronic vignettes of both Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion, and his unrealized designs for Walt Disney World's Western River Expedition are among the great lost treasures of Disney Imagineering. He also contributed to other celebrated attractions including the Enchanted Tiki Room, the Jungle Cruise and It's a Small World.
--Jeff Pepper
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Men's_Misery
A couple of months ago, I discovered a source for some of the ideas in the Jungle Cruise. It was a serialized account of Livingston's travels in Africa in the children's magazine, St Nicholas. The illustrations depicted quite a few of the scenes in the ride- very close to the way it was constructed. They had to have been looking at this when they created the ride. It's interesting that the designers were referencing a magazine that was from the 1890s.
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