...really need to pick up the pace. The Spring 1967
Backstage Disneyland discloses that "there are 198 million prints and slides" made by Guests and personnel--every year! What do you guys have--a few thousand? I don't think you're applying yourselves
at all!
I have about 700 million slides, didn't I mention that? It's going to take me a while to get through them all. Patience, Grasshopper!
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many TICKETS were issued in 1967? Lets use 10 million visitors, say 3/4 bought tickets books with 10 tickets, that’s.... well, math isn't my strong point, but at least 75 million tickets. I'm feeling the pressure..... Major, how about 100 million a year, that way you have at least 7 years worth?
ReplyDelete..."198 million prints and slides every year"...
ReplyDeleteYes, and the quest is to track down every last one of them!
And, that's just Disneyland. This may take a while...
I would take anything written in the Backstage Magazines with a grain of salt. The magazine was based upon the old Mad and Cracked Magazines. Hilarious, but not your best source of information. But you probably knew that already!
ReplyDeleteMatterhorn: I agree with you to a large extent. This particular "fact" comes from one of the biographies (which aren't quite as whimsical). Specifically, this was from the biography of the Eastman Kodak shop manager; if anybody would have a good estimate of the number of photographs, I think it'd be him!
ReplyDeleteRounding up to 200 million photographs, we'd get the following average per Guest:
5 million Guests: 40 photos
7 million Guests: 29 photos
10 million Guests: 20 photos
12 million Guests: 17 photos
Since the Guest counts include children, that's probably a bit high. Still, there are surely hundreds of millions of photographs of Disneyland in the 1950s, which is quite mind boggling to think about!
Heck, I think I took at least half a million photos myself in the last year, not counting the ones I have collected! Exhausting!
ReplyDeleteIf you find any of me in the mid-1980s I'd appreciate a copy!
ReplyDeleteI keeping hitting up Youtube.com for some mid-80s vintage footage and there are some good postings there. Still, I agree with you, we are a few hundred million shy of photographs and slides from the vintage Park!
Mike