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When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland.
John Hench / Designer
Disneyland
Horizon
Park
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The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.
John Hench / Designer
Business
Design
Perception
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I did what we call dry for wet effects, some of the miniatures work and two animation sequences.
John Hench / Designer
Animation
Dry
Effects
Two
Wet
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Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.
John Hench / Designer
Communication
Familiar
Walt
Images
Park
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Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.
John Hench / Designer
Affection
Department
Walt
Fond
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We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.
John Hench / Designer
Cartoon
Chosen
Screens
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I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"
John Hench / Designer
League
Sea
Special
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Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!
John Hench / Designer
Paris
People
Skeletons
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It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
John Hench / Designer
Main Street
Project
Main
Supposed
Throw
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We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.
John Hench / Designer
Big Cities
Cities
Color
Feelings
Harmonious
Instance
Achieved
Colors
Park
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Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.
John Hench / Designer
Cynical
Great Respect
Intuition
Marvelous
People
Understood
Walt
Respect Great People
Liked
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Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.
John Hench / Designer
Children
China
Communicate
Great Wall
Mickey
Next
Talking
Wall
Did
Seen
Images
Mickey Mouse
Mouse
Studio
Skill
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The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc.
John Hench / Designer
Bird
Changed
Etc
Magic
Magic Kingdom
Thinking
Better Will New
Ceremonies
Master
Jeff
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What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Pirate
Skeletons
Pirates
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The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Children
Disneyland
Games
Reality
Virtual Reality
Years
Years Ago
Achieved
Park
Virtual
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There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Atmosphere
Jewelry
Walt
Somewhere
Catch
Hidden
Minute
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Because, you know, it's never a hard work when you enjoy yourself. Look, I've been here since 57 years, and I don't have to explain why I've stayed so long. I always enjoyed it.
John Hench / Designer
Enjoyed
Hard Work
Work Hard Work Always
Work Hard Work Look
Explain
Work Look Long
Stayed
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Mickey is one of the prime examples: Mickey has never been suspected of being an American export. It was deja vu. They gave him a local name and he's been accepted everywhere he goes.
John Hench / Designer
Accepted
Artist
Deja Vu
Example
Mickey
Names
Prime
Everywhere
Deja
Examples
Export
Local
Suspected
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Walt's idea was that - as soon as the people who were dining got through their main course. They were supposed to all be seated, served at the same time, when they got into the dessert.
John Hench / Designer
Dessert
Dining
Ideas
Main Course
People
Walt
Time People Who
Main
Same Time
Seated
Served
Soon
Supposed
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This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Bird
Jazz
Tape
Restaurant
Supposed
Tapes
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We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Feelings
People
Rely
Ritual
Symbols
Too Much
Life Keep People
Anymore
Life Bad People
More And More
Required
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Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.
John Hench / Designer
Big Cities
Chaos
Cities
Conflict
Contradiction
Humans
Lasts
Parks
Visual
Ancestors
Eliminated
Park
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I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Driving
Fundamentals
Optimism
Walt
Admired
Time Always Remember
Direction
Fundamental
Level
Studio
Seemed
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Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.
John Hench / Designer
Architect
Color
Critical
Emotional
Engineers
Structure
Architects
Finish
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It's an enormous amount of work: there are 28 separate buildings, and I work on the choice of the colors for everything. Outside colors, balcony colors, etc.. And all of this has to work together, in harmony.
John Hench / Designer
Choices
Color
Working Together
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But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way.
John Hench / Designer
Optimistic
Artist
Common
Okay
Optimism
Walt
Way
Believed
Deal
Dali
Great Deal
Himself
Shared
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I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attention to detail, to what would tell best the story. Because many people get excited about the work and drift off from the story.
John Hench / Designer
Attention
Bad Taste
Details
Excited
Good Taste
People
Taste
Best Work Good
Bad
Consultant
Detail
Drift
Off
Suppose
Story
Tell
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I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.
John Hench / Designer
Art
Artist
Communicate
Fine
Information
Painter
People
Professors
School
Art People More
Images
Reached
Schools
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We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Get Better
Ideas
Separating
Technique
Budget
Finally
Improved
Some Things
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I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Color
Developing
Easier
Filters
Work Good Me
Camera
Motion
Motion Picture
Producer
Pick
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Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message.
John Hench / Designer
Skeletons
Cheap
Discover
Discovered
Price
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Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Common
Common Things
Eye
Horizon
Ideas
Instance
Understood
Walt
Your Day People
Eliminate
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For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this "Celebration" village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Florida
Ideas
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For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this 'Celebration' village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
John Hench / Designer
Celebration
Florida
Instance
Institute
Village
Walt
Disney
Recently
Same Thing
Talked
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I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
John Hench / Designer
Technology
Artist
Difficulty
Mountain
Needed
Ten
Waiting
Years
Allow
Every Time
Model
Suppose
Ride
Ten Years
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Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Communicate
Enormous
Greater
Losing
Needs
Skills
Symbols
Any Other Place
Gave
Images
Studio
Skill
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In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.
John Hench / Designer
Morning
Accidents
Cartoon
Play
Action Movies
Continuously
Contradict
Live Action
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I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
One Day
Showcase
Successful
Thinking
Future Always World
Center
Planned
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Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.
John Hench / Designer
Artist
Caves
Died
Finished
Ideas
Pirate
Seconds
Walt
Original
Meal
Original Idea
Pirates
Table
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The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'
John Hench / Designer
Arriving
Artist
Cloudy
Color
Disneyland
Driving
Fighting
Grey
Hotel
Paint
Particular
Sky
Days
Choose
Fight
Particular Kind
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