The photograph is another opening year publicity photograph of the Haunted Mansiion. This time it is the ballroom scene where the ghosts are celebrating Halloween. I like how you can see the painted detailing and the Trompe L'Oil work on the railing on the second floor walkway and on the wall. The back tag reads: Every "body" loves a waltz in the Grand Hall of Disneyland's very Haunted Mansion, which has just scarefully welcomed first mortals to its cobwebbed interior. In the Hall, just one of 11 main rooms and areas in the Mansion, some of the more permanent residents enjoy a birthday party.
Happy Halloween everyone and Trick or Treat!
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That ghost at the head of the table is looking right at me. It's giving me the willies! Those male ballroom dancers must have been anchormen in their previous lives, Ron Burgundy would be jealous of their hair!
Notice the ghostly technician to the right of Great Cesar's Ghost holding his head in place, the hairnet still on one of the female dancer's wig, and the fact that there are only three waltzing couples, not the six we know today... early blueprints show that the three figures were to be tripled by mirrors, but the effect apparently never came off.
Happy Halloween! As always great posts!
It would have been cool if the middle of the table was shown in the shot. Now a days the table is set with three plates in the middle (one big one and two smaller ones on top) to form a hidden mickey. It would have been interesting to see if they were doing it all the way back in the beginning...
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