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Throughout the room, ghostly musical instruments and other objects float in response to the supplications of Madame Leota, a glowing, chanting head, speaking from within a misty crystal ball planted on the center of a thick, ornate table covered with Tarot cards and symbols of the supernatural. Perched behind her on a large gilded chair is the raven we first met in the conservatory, flapping its wings in response to the eerie occurrences taking place. As Leota chants, the instruments respond one by one with otherworldly charm, and a mysterious, ectoplasmic vapor in the corner of the room winds around like a serpent with a fading tail, occasionally seeming to materialize into an eerily familiar visage before vanishing into a wisp again. The floating objects are illuminated dimly with black lighting, which causes them to glow and limits the amount of illumination on the black cables supporting them. They are attached to a simple motor-driven lift mechanism that rotates slowly, causing the props to seem to float up and down, slowly and mysteriously. The mysterious “ectoplasm” is an interesting effect which is also motor-driven, and activated by a light on the tip of the mechanism. This contraption is positioned behind a semi-opaque portion of the wall, which is coated with phosphorescent dye. When the small yet intense point of light passes directly behind the wall, it activates the phosphorescence, which glows through the wall and is visible to the patrons in the Doom Buggies. As is the case with all light-activated phosphorescent mate- rials (such as a typical “glow-in-the-dark” toy), the phosphorescence quickly fades, leaving a faint tail trailing the moving point of light. Serpents and spiders, tail of a rat. call in the spirits, wherever they’re at! Rap on a table, it’s time to respond. send us a message from somewhere beyond! Goblins and ghoulies from last Hallowe’en. awaken the spirits with your tambourine! Creepies and crawlies, toads in a pond. let there be music, from regions beyond! Wizards and witches, wherever you dwell. give us a hint, by ringing a bell! The animation of Madame Leota’s face is the first truly magical effect in the Haunted Mansion achievable only through technology. Leota’s chanting visage is a projection of a real human face, filmed while speaking the lines. The “actress” is Leota Toombs, who was working for WED at the time of the Haunted Mansion’s development, using her own costuming and modeling skills on other attractions such as It’s a Small World and Pirates of the Caribbean. [WED, Inc., named after Walt E. Disney’s initials, was an offshoot team assembled to help with the creation of Disneyland—Ed.] Toombs also took a shot at recording the audio for the scene as well, but the Imagineers were looking for something a little darker and more threatening, so they turned to one of their more wicked voice talents, Eleanor Audley. Audley is pure villainess, having previously voiced the evil characters Maleficent (for Sleeping Beauty ) and Lady Tremaine (the stepmother from Cinderella ). Audley gives Madame Leota a dark menace, while Toombs provides a striking, grim visual. With the natural glow that comes along with the projection process, the effect is quite eerie. In 1969, when Disneyland premiered the Haunted Mansion, the effect was accomplished using regular looped film projection, shining Leota’s face onto a static neutral-colored head inside of a large crystal ball. Wild white hair surrounded the head and filled the rest of the ball, and purple backlighting gave the set an otherworldly glow. The projector would leave a tiny highlight reflected in the glass ball, but that didn’t keep people from being mystified by the effect. The trick was first devised by Yale Gracey when he was working on the Haunted Mansion with Rolly Crump in the early 1960s. Gracey simply dreamed up the idea one day, went to find an old film reel of a talking head (and ended up using some television footage that Hans Conried had done for the studio), and started shining it on various items and props until he found an old bust of Beethoven. When he projected the film onto the bust and turned out the lights, Beethoven sprang to life. Walt loved it, and it became the basis for the Madame Leota effect. Leota Toombs actually enjoyed a measure of celebrity due to her role in the Haunted Mansion. “Mom said they tied her hair to the chair,” said Imagineer Kim Irvine, Toombs’s daughter, talking about the process Toombs went through to be filmed for the attraction. “She was kind of surprised that out of her whole career at WED, she would be so famous for being Madame Leota. She said that one day she was walking through the park, and a young attraction hostess ran up to her and said ‘You are her—you’re her, aren’t you? My friends tell me you’re Madame Leota!’ Mom was flattered and said, ‘Well yes, that is me,’” Irvine recalled. “Then [the hostess] said, ‘I just have to ask you one question—don’t you get tired of sitting there with your head under that ball?’” In the 1990s, the system was replaced with a new technology patented by WDI, in which the film (since transferred to a digital format) was projected (via fiber optics, carried into the head through the neck) onto the backside of an opaque static face from inside the middle of the head. A tiny lens was used to project an extremely wide angle, allowing the projection to cover the entire inside of the front of the head. The benefit to this technology was mobility; the head could now be moved about, as the lens remained constantly fixed inside, only needing to be tethered through a fiber optics cable. In fact, this allowed the scene to be altered slightly, in which the table itself could be moved up and down as if it were floating along with the rest of the objects in the room. The small reflection in front of the crystal ball was also eliminated, since the projection was from within. However, this system had its problems as well. The opaque head that allowed the projection to show through from within necessarily allowed for a dimmer, more muted image than the bright incandes- cent projection from outside. The image was also more distorted when viewed from the sides, a result of the wider angle of projection. When the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay was installed at Disneyland in 2001, Madame Leota returned to her former externally-projected glory, her table again firmly planted in place, with four new lit candles surrounding the ball, their highlights reflected by the crystal to distract viewers from the projector’s reflection. Still not content with the scene, the Imagineers turned back to Disneyland’s seance circle in 2004 and gave even more life to Madame Leota by causing her crystal ball to levitate and fly around the table. Practical technology to create a mechanical means to synchronize a projection with the “flying” crystal ball didn’t exist until recently, but with the advent of brilliant, high-definition video projection technology, a solution was designed. The entire field of space which contained the path of the floating crystal ball became a virtual “screen” for the high definition projection. A computer had the predefined path which the ball would follow programmed into its memory, and the face of Leota (still the original, menacing Leota Toombs) followed that path, much like a bouncing ball on a computer screensaver. This functioned for a brief time, until newer, crisper technology allowed for Leota’s projection to again come from within the head itself, projected onto the front of the face from behind, which is where the technology stands—at least as of this writing. The rear-projection also allowed the Imagineers to use a full high-resolution image for Madame Leota’s face, as opposed to Disneyland’s projected “bouncing ball” image, which is essentially a very small portion of the full high- resolution projection that covered the full moving path of the crystal ball. The set was also redressed as part of the 2004 update, and now there are many new candles on the table (with more new technol- ogy— amazingly realistic flickering electric flames), and a new spell book that sets next to the seance table, inevitably turned to page 1313, which “spells” out Leota’s incantation designed to “bring to your eyes and ears one who is bound in limbo.” Leaving the seance circle, the Doom Buggies move through a dark hallway toward a large balcony overlooking a grand hall. Crazy, dis- cordant pipe organ music fills the hallway as the Doom Buggies turn to peer over the balcony rail. Referring to the seance the patrons just left behind, the Ghost Host resumes his narration: The happy haunts have received your sympathetic vibrations, and are beginning to materialize. They’re assembling for a swinging wake, and they’ll be expecting me. I’ll see you all a little later. Check back tomorrow for Part Two of our excerpt series from The Unauthorized Story of Walt Disney’s Haunted Mansion , by Jeff Baham. The Unauthorized Story of Walt Disney's Haunted Mansion, 2nd Edition. Welcome, Foolish Readers! Chill to the creepy but captivating history of Disney's Haunted Mansion. Come experience the mansion with the "lights on" and learn its ghostly history, its sinister secrets, and its ghoulish special effects. There's room for one more—and this time you're it! Noted mansion authority Jeff Baham lifts the shroud and tells the stories on Disney's original plans for a "haunted house" attraction, why the mansion is there, who built it, how it became haunted, and the dastardly deeds done by some of its residents in their corruptible, mortal states. Board your Doom Buggy for: • Exclusive photos and commentary by Disney Imagineers, including Haunted Mansion "architect" Rolly Crump • Insider accounts of the creative clashes over whether the mansion's haunts should be humorous or horrific, and the internal workflow behind each mansion rehab or addition • An analysis of the ride, scene by scene, with insight into how the effects work, delightfully eerie trivia, and anecdotes from Imagineers and cast members • The stories behind some of the mansion's many denizens, including the Hatbox Ghost, the Knight, the Sea Captain, the Raven, the unhappy couple Constance and George, and the Ghost Host himself • A discussion of the most notable mansion collectibles released by Disney over the years. A Friday Visit with Jim Korkis: The Haunted Mansion. Welcome back to Fridays with Jim Korkis! Jim, the dean of Disney historians, writes about Walt Disney World history every Friday on yourfirstvisit.net. YOUR PERSONAL DISNEY LIBRARY (8) The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies (2003) and The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic (2015) both by Jason Surrell. The Disney theme parks around the world have attractions that share the same name but have significant differences. Not only are the it’s a small world facades and ride systems completely different at Disneyland and Walt Disney World but they also have subtle little other different touches as well. For instance, the attraction at Disneyland has a figure honoring Imagineer Mary Blair, the original designer. At Walt Disney World, that figure is replaced with one for Imagineer Joyce Carlson, who supervised the installation of the one in Florida and at the other Disney theme parks. The Haunted Mansion appears at every Disney theme park worldwide, but in different lands, and that affects not only the exterior show building but also how it relates to its surrounding area. Jason Surrell’s books provide a good deal of information not just about the WDW version but also a similar overview of the other incarnations around the world. While there is certainly enough material to write a book just about Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion, it probably would not attract as wide an audience as one devoted to all the different versions. One of the challenges in building a personal Disney library is that a book may be revised and updated and released with a slightly different title. In the process, it is not just new information that is added but older information may be omitted as well. For instance, the 2003 book version devotes almost a third of its text to the underwhelming 2003 Eddie Murphy film based on the attraction, in order to promote the film. Those pages of material are completely missing from the 2015 version and in its place is information on Hong Kong Disneyland’s Mystic Manor and new additions completed at both the Disneyland and Walt Disney World attractions. However, the second book does include much of the same text and illustrations as the first one. I always make sure both versions are in my library but if you can only purchase one, then the most recent edition is usually the recommended choice. Both books are written by Imagineer Jason Surrell, who was a long time show writer for the Disney Company until he left just a couple of years ago to become a creative director at Universal Creative. Among his many credits were enhancements to the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean attractions at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World. As a Disney writer, Surrell’s text is lively and informative, although there are occasional hints that he may have been constrained in some places in telling the whole story because this is an approved Disney narrative. Not only his direct involvement in the Haunted Mansion, but also his access to proprietary Imagineering material about the history and development of the attraction, brings new stories and illustrations, and also a new perspective to things we all thought we already knew. Which character other than Madame Leota is referred to by a specific name in the original Imagineering documentation? It is Pickwick, the ghost swinging atop the chandelier in the ballroom and holding a glass. Why is he named Pickwick? The answer is in the book. For me, one of the delights of the book is the second half where it goes through the attraction section-by-section (with sidebars of differences at the other parks) as a virtual journey through the experience. Surrell went on to write books about the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction and the Disney mountains and I am sure he had many, many more stories to share. If you are particularly interested in the original Disneyland version of the Haunted Mansion, I highly recommend The Unauthorized Story of Walt Disney’s Haunted Mansion (Second Edition 2016) by Jeff Baham, an acknowledged expert on the attraction who includes some facts and insights not in the Surrell books. Thanks, Jim! And come back next Friday for more from Jim Korkis! In the meantime, check out his books, including his latest, More Secret Stories of Disneyland, and his Secret Stories of Walt Disney World: Things You Never You Never Knew , which reprints much material first written for this site, all published by Theme Park Press. Old-school illusions, Imagineer voices and more secrets of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif., pictured under construction in 1962, celebrates 50 years Aug. 9, 2019. Construction for the Haunted Mansion attraction began in 1961 and the exterior of the attraction was completed in 1963. It was unoccupied until 1969 while Walt Disney participated in the 1964-65 New York World's Fair and his Imagineers were re-tasked to work on those timely projects. Courtesy Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Fifty years ago, in 1969, before the Haunted Mansion opened to guests at Disneyland Park in Anaheim, Calif., a witty sign displayed outside of the attraction read, "Notice! All Ghosts and Restless Spirits. Post-lifetime leases are now available in this Haunted Mansion! For reservations, send resume of past experience to: Ghost Relations Dept., Disneyland. Please! Do not apply in person!" Courtesy Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. The Hatbox Ghost, pictured here with an Imagineer, originally occupied an attic scene with the bride. He was removed just a few days after opening, as Imagineers became convinced the scene just wasn't working. The ghost was reintroduced to the ride in 2015. Courtesy Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Pictured is the more modern Hatbox Ghost. (Paul Hiffmeyer/Disneyland Resort) Show More Show Less. Imagineers had a real sense of humor with the attraction. The original cemetery outside the Mansion, for example, featured epitaph tributes to the creators that worked on the ride. There was one for "Grandpa Marc," a nod to Marc Davis; one for "Brother Claude," which referred to designer Claude Coats; a "Master Gracey," for special effects designer Yale Gracey; "Phineas Pock," for Paul Frees, who voiced the "Ghost Host" character; "Rolo Rumpkin" for designer "Rolly Crump"; "Julia Shrub" for landscape architect Julie Bush, "Francis Xavier" for writer X. Atencio and more. Pictured: An Imagineer jokes around with a ghostly form. Courtesy Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Pictured here is the current iteration of the ballroom scene, where guests see the Pepper's Ghost effect in action. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Pictured here is the current iteration of the ballroom scene, where guests see the Pepper's Ghost effect in action. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Many of the Imagineers who worked on the ride voiced or otherwise contributed to the 999 ghosts in the mansion. X. Atencio voiced the coffin occupant for the ride (pictured) and Paul Frees played the Ghost HostMost impressively, Ink and Paint department Imagineer Leota Toombs voiced the original bride, and also provided her face for the psychic in the crystal ball, which Disneyland dubbed "Madame Leota." (The voice of Madame Leota was provided by Eleanor Audley, who also voiced Maleficent in the original "Sleeping Beauty.") Courtesy Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Today the bride, reimagined as a murderous Black Widow named Constance Hatchaway, is voiced by Kat Cressida. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. And pictured here is the current version of the skeleton in the coffin. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Madame Leota, however, remains, surrounded by LED-lit candles. At the time of the opening, those candles were a particularly notable technology. In fact, Disney invented the realistic-looking flameless candle, and holds the patent for the creation. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. The Haunted Mansion could have been much more similar to Pirates of the Caribbean. Imagineer Claude Coats at one point created a version of the ride wherein guests would float through a partially-submerged, swampy and ghost-riddled Louisiana plantation house. The only living residents of the Haunted Mansion are the caretaker, "semi-officially" known as Silas Crump — a nod to Imagineer Rolly Crump — and his dog, Bones. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. He is, however, replaced around the holidays every year with Jack Skellington, from "A Nightmare Before Christmas." Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Although the Haunted Mansion appears plucked from the Garden District of New Orleans, it actually closely resembles the Shipley-Lydecker House that once stood in Baltimore. However, don't plan on visiting it — it was torn down in the 1960s. Imagineers also visited the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose for ideas. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. The stretching portraits in the room leading into the mansion have made many fans over the years but the biggest one might just be Neil Patrick Harris. As he told E! in 2018, he loves the Haunted Mansion, leading him to bid for — and win — a painting from the stretching room depicting a wealthy man standing on a barrel with TNT nearby (on left, above). As the Chicago Tribune reported in 2016, the winning bidder, who we now know to be Harris, ended up spending $172,500 for the work. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. At Disneyland in California, the stretching room is an elevator going down. But at Magic Kingdom in Florida, the ceiling rises. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. The tightrope walker has been given a handful of names over the years, but Disneyland fans generally refer to her as Sally Slater, based on the poetry of a ghost who resides at the Mansion at Magic Kingdom in Orlando. Pock, whose story dictates she was the house librarian, in her afterlife recites poetry. One such line riders may hear her say notes that, "In the swamp, poor Sally Slater was eaten by an alligator." From the collection of Walt Disn Show More Show Less. Not all of the Haunted Mansion's 999 ghosts and ghouls have names, but some Disney cast members at Walt Disney World reportedly took it upon themselves to give the popular hitch-hiking ghosts monikers. They're not official, but if you'd like to refer to them formally, try (L-R) Phineas, Ezra and Gus. Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. The Haunted Mansion's sister attractions in Paris and Hong Kong are not carbon copies of that in Anaheim. Theirs are called, respectively, Phantom Manor (a reportedly scarier version of the Mansion) and Mystic Manor, (which doesn't evoke hauntings or ghosts at all). Joshua Sudock/Joshua Sudock/Disneyland Resort Show More Show Less. Scroll or click through the slideshow to see more facts from the Haunted Mansion. When the Haunted Mansion opened at Disneyland to the ticket-holding public 50 years ago this month, lines reportedly stretched all the way back to Fantasyland. Some of the day's record 82,516 guests say they waited upwards of five hours to board a frightful "Doom Buggy." Such a line might suggest that Disneyland had utilized the latest, most cutting-edge technology for the spooky New Orleans Square attraction, especially after being under construction for years, well after the exterior of the mansion had been built. (Rumors had by then begun to circulate about why the ride was taking so long to open, with some speculating that someone had died during construction, or that Imagineers made it so scary they had to start over.) In actuality, though the ride shocked, awed and delighted guests, the core science behind the Haunted Mansion wasn't all that complicated. In fact, the science behind the ride's apparitions has been around since the mid-1800s (or even earlier!): It's called "Pepper's Ghost" for John Pepper and Henry Dircks, who popularized the science. The trick, which works by using mirrors and projectors to manufacture an illusory specter, is what's behind the famed ghastly ballroom scene where rotund diners feast on cake, dancers swirl to organ music, and overhead portraits come to life to duel with revolvers. It's also what's behind the Hatbox Ghost, one of the original figures of the ride. "This is the thing about Haunted Mansion that's 50 years amazing," said Jeff Baham, author of "The Unauthorized Story of Walt Disney's Haunted Mansion" at Silicon Valley Comic Con in mid-August. "The Hatbox Ghost has some tech that's pretty amazing, but generally the they used stage magic from the 18th and 19th centuries to make this happen – particularly in the ballroom. In 1969, people were losing their minds, but it's a technology created around the turn of the century, mostly for productions of 'A Christmas Carol.'" That's not to say Walt Disney didn't do some incredible and innovative work on the Mansion. He put his A-team on the project from the start, sending animators like Marc Davis and Ken Anderson to create the house and the characters in it, and writer X. Atencio to drum up the storyline. One Imagineer, Leota Toombs, actually makes an appearance in the ride, as the psychic Madame Leota. "She had high cheekbones," Baham said, "and she said that's how she got the part." The house itself, as has been well-documented, is a close copy of the Shipley-Lydecker House in Baltimore, which Anderson found in a book — "Decorative Art of Victoria's Era" — in the Imagineering Center in Glendale. Anderson's re-imagining called for busted shutters and escaping bats, but Disney wasn't keen on a decrepit exterior looking out onto the park; he preferred to keep the haunts inside. One of those first haunting ideas was to include a pirate ghost character named Bartholomew Gore (also called Bartholomew Roberts) as an extension of the neighboring pirate wax museum (which would eventually become Pirates of the Carribbean) in New Orleans Square. As the proposed story went, the captain married a woman named Priscilla, but soon thereafter killed her when she discovered he was a dangerous pirate. Becoming a ghost, she haunted him until he killed himself by hanging. 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Despite advertisements for the ride heavily featuring the Hatbox Ghost, he disappeared for 45 years after that initial week — rumors abound as to why — but Disneyland eventually reintroduced him in 2015, where his head intermittently vanishes and reappears. The bride character, however, has always loomed in the mansion in some form. The original version eventually gave way to today's Constance Hatchaway, a black widow who makes a habit of killing her new husbands — often with a hatchet. Since 2006, thousands have come face to face with the bride (and the Mansion's other 998 ghouls), taking part in 50 years of Disneyland history. See more secrets of the Mansion in the gallery above.