Fun Find Friday
February 15, 2013
Location: Epcot (WDW)/New Orleans Square (DL)
My favorite attraction in Epcot is The American
Adventure. Everything about the attraction impresses me: the
audio-animatronics (especially the storage area for them), the
combination of video and animatronics together, and the way that
every time I leave the theater I feel a little more patriotic.
One of the most memorable scenes found during the
film is the "Two Brothers" scene. For those of you who haven't seen
this attraction or just need a quick refresher, the two minute song
in the attraction focuses around two brothers who choose different
sides of the Civil War. Even though they are family they both have
different believes on what this country should stand for and as a
result, one of them lives through the war, while the other one
doesn't make it home. This takes us to this shot in the film:

Here we see a casket belonging to the brother that
died in the war being delivered to the family. While The American
Adventure has several fun finds (which we will get to in future
articles), this shot above is one of the most unique and exciting of
all. All of the photographs found throughout this sequence appear to
be from the 1800s during the Civil War, but in reality, Disney hired
actors to portray the brothers and soldiers so they could tell the
story in a way that they wanted it to be told.
So how does this get us to the above image? Well, if
you've ever visited New Orleans Square in Disneyland, the above
image may look familiar to you. Next time you are waiting for a
train to arrive on your grand circle tour, take a look at the
building across the way. The sign for Mullers Landing may not be
there (or several of the other props found in the shot above), but
the building is one and the same, because this is in fact where one
shot of the Two Brothers sequence was photographed:

As I said earlier, this is just one simple
photograph in a two minute long sequence. Several of the other
pictures have a history too and we'll look at those in future Fun
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