1963 Disney Abraham Lincoln animatronic - photo

[Altair]

1963 Disney Abraham Lincoln animatronic.

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Previously:

How Disney created sound effects in the 1940s - GIF
Battlebots animatronic trophy stand - GIF

[WmRMeyers]

I was at Disneyland in that time frame, and remember seeing him. (Them, actually, from what I was told.) From a few feet away, and with the bot dressed, he was indistinguishable from a real human to me at the time. I turned 8 years old in 1963. Not the most discerning age.

Bill

[Nitrous]

I was at Disneyland in that time frame, and remember seeing him. (Them, actually, from what I was told.) From a few feet away, and with the bot dressed, he was indistinguishable from a real human to me at the time. I turned 8 years old in 1963. Not the most discerning age.

Bill

Me too!
I was there in 65 though so at 10, I was amazed!
Apparently, they originally used a red hydraulic fluid… needless to say that when he sprung a leak, the fluid plus white shirt left Mrs Lincoln with some PTSD!

I was back a few years ago… the castle looked smaller than I remembered at 10!
Found memories by a kid from Northern Ontario…

[Frank S]

Never went to Disneyland, took my daughters to Disneyworld in Orlando they were 6 and 10 at the time and neither of them. cared for Majic kingdom we spent 1 day there and the rest of our time at the Epcot center, then cut our Disney part of the vacation short in favor to visiting the Kennedy space center. Way more enjoyable for them and me but their mother hated it, Oh, well could be part of reason there is wife #2 of over 30 years now.

[old kodger]

The thing that disturbs me is the thought that there is no way that they have been sitting on their hands since then, and all the conspiracy suggestions that various people are deceased but are replaced with "something else" suddenly becomes a very real consideration. Biden for example.

[Duke_of_URL]

Abe Lincoln - "Terminator"

By the way, during one of Abe's first showings, when red hydraulic fluid began leaking on his white shirt, there were many in the audience who actually thought it was part of the "history lesson" of his assassination!

[Toolmaker51]

I remember the Disneyland aspect, same era in person, we lived very nearby, one city away.
Seems there were magazine photo articles on it as well, 'LIFE' maybe, 'National Geographic'...not sure. Don't recall the hydraulic fluid issues, but that tripped another recollection of a slightly earlier photographic technique employed by 'National Geographic', the derisively named 'Red Shirt School', where the photographer placed a brightly colored object to make the resulting image 'pop'. After-all mass printing of color photos had just been perfected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_shirt_(photography)