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No, this wasn’t shot with my iPhone!
It doesn’t take stills fast enough to play them back like that.
About 3:40 into the video it looks like I took a terrible tumble, but actually it was a zoom issue, caused by holding the camcorder in one hand, up to my eye because its LCD screen was too dim in the bright CA sun with my auto-darkening prescription glasses, and I lost track of where the center rail/curb was at thst point and tried to recover with one-handed steering while also trying to steady the camcorder picture.
At least when I added the music it fits where the picture stabilizes again! The train whistle was built into the music, as was Mickey’s voice and Pluto barking. Tink seemed to fit the music as well as my tilting the camera to the empty monorail track at that point. All editing and animation was done using Adobe Premiere Pro.
The original Autopia which on opening day of Disneyland didn’t have center rail/curbs, only curbs along the side, and you could do real side by side “racing”, so they tell me. Also, many kids lost theit front teeth hitting the chrome bar over the dashboard with their mouths when there was a crash!
Those crashes also did a number on the cars themselves, so a wrap-around, total car bumper was added soon after the attraction opened, in addition to a center rail so the cars wouldn’t have complete freedom of movement and wouldn’t have so many crashes.
At Disneyland’s Autopia today they highly stress the “no bumping” rule!!
I’m glad I found your site. I love the video as well as your pictures, etc. I’m adding Disney Echo to my blogroll on The Disney Traveler!
Thank you, Susan!