Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22385 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
PIXIEDUST PACKAGE | c.1980 |
Details
Original Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 22 mins 20 secs Credits: Doug Collender Genre: Amateur Subject: Travel Family Life Entertainment/Leisure |
Summary An amateur film produced by Doug Collender of a family vacation to Orlando in Florida with visits to the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral and the Walt Disney World resort at Orlando. |
Description
An amateur film produced by Doug Collender of a family vacation to Orlando in Florida with visits to the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral and the Walt Disney World resort at Orlando.
Credit: Dumar Films presents
A bus travels along an American highway passing the camera.
Title: Pixiedust Package
Traffic drives past a number of hotels along an American strip.
A young woman in a bikini relaxes beside a hotel pool, children play nearby in the water. A man climbs a steep high ladder...
An amateur film produced by Doug Collender of a family vacation to Orlando in Florida with visits to the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral and the Walt Disney World resort at Orlando.
Credit: Dumar Films presents
A bus travels along an American highway passing the camera.
Title: Pixiedust Package
Traffic drives past a number of hotels along an American strip.
A young woman in a bikini relaxes beside a hotel pool, children play nearby in the water. A man climbs a steep high ladder to a board and dives into the pool, a man with a cine-camera records the event. A young girl blows up an inflatable Lilo watched by another woman in a bikini, she jumps into the pool with it.
A group board a Gray Line charter bus and travel to the Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral. A plaque outside a building changes to show the Space Shuttle launch pad in the distance. The camera shakes as if the rocket it is filming is taking off. A fuel truck travels along a road between the space centre and launch pad. Visitors wonder around looking at a series of space rockets on display outside a large building.
Behind a barrier a group of tourists watch as a keeper herds a flock of Pink Flamingo’s inside an enclosure towards them. Other exotic birds roost on poles in a shaded area, Carp swim in a pond. A small girl has five parrots placed on her arms and head by a keeper, other swing or sit on perches. A keeper helps the birds perform tricks including a parrot coming down a slide and a cockatoo on a pair of roller skates. Another raises the Stars and Stripes on a flagpole.
At the ‘Theatre of the Sea’ seal perform for the watching crowds. A number of people come over and pose for photographs with the animals. A group of tourists climb about a small ferry boat and watch as dolphins perform a display for them in the water around the vessel. The passengers disembark as the show continues from a viewing area. Crowds applaud as dolphin jump into the air to catch fishes.
A long queue waiting to ride a monorail. On a lake a man dressed as Disney’s Goofy water skis. A woman and young girl look down on Walt Disney World from the monorail. Large crowds’ throng along main street passing various Disney characters. At a fairground one ride has carriages shaped like Dumbo, overhead cable cars pass to-and-fro.
Large crowds walk near to Cinderella’s Castle while others eat at various catering outlets. A line of visitors climbs into and take a ride in the Nautilus submarine from ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’. Mechanical fish and coral can be seen from inside the Nautilus.
At a stall selling colourful flowers on the corner of a street, the girl and woman stand chatting. Visitors walk past houses and building in the artificial town, a horse-drawn bus rides past as people make their way along Main Street in the resort. ‘Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie’ is advertised on the hording outside a cinema, the woman and girl touch a statue possibly of Pocahontas. A number of signs warn patrons about Big Thunder roller-coaster is followed by views on the ride itself as it speeds around sharp corners and through tunnels.
Mickey Mouse stands atop of float travelling along Main Street, other Disney characters wave at the watching crowd as they pass either on foot or onboard their own colourful floats. At the rear cleaners sweep up after the procession. Visitors cross a bridge making their way towards Cinderella’s Castle.
At night spectators’ wave at various Disney characters as they pass on neon-lit decorative floats, a group of dancers in historic costumes performs in the street as part of the procession behind Cinderella in her carriage. A number of lit-up motorised insects from Alice in Wonderland drive past, Alice herself sit atop a large mushroom waving at the crowds. The procession and films ends with a firework display and Baloo from Disney’s Jungle Books
End title: Pixiedust Package
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