Magic Journey by Kevin Rafferty

Author:Kevin Rafferty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2019-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

Oh, no. Nope. No sir. Not a ghost of a chance I’m staying another night in this haunted hotel!

Wary of picking up any hitchhiking ghosts, I floored the gas pedal to speed past the long cemetery. Then, once in the clear, we shared our long night’s experiences. Compared to Janny’s night, I got off easy. Neither one of us got any sleep or proper grooming, so when we arrived at Associates & Ferren we were a mess. The receptionist, Susan, greeted us by asking a question that was actually more of a statement: “You stayed there, didn’t you?” We nodded. She continued, “I can’t believe you did that, especially since everyone knows that place is haunted.” Susan helped get us rooms for the night at a normal (as opposed to paranormal) hotel in Sag Harbor. I’ve taken thousands of trips for my job over the years—and never once have I had any of my expense reports questioned. Except for one. This one. A few weeks after I returned from New York I got the call. “Hi, this is Mary from Corporate Travel. We were just wondering why you have charges for two different hotels in two different towns on the same night.” I answered matter-of-factly, “That’s because one of them was haunted.” There was a long pause and then Mary ended the call by saying, “Okay. Well, um. Thank you.”

Despite the sleepless night before, the mock-up we were there to review looked promising. Bran’s team had created a multi-camera rig and mounted it to the top of a van. They drove the van around town and projected the captured footage on a screen that wrapped around both sides and the front of the wooden mock-up of Gus the Bus. The onboard projection system, mounted out of view on top of Gus, provided a seamless, out-of-the-periphery image as seen through the bus windows. There were also subwoofers on board, so when the mock-up began, it sounded and felt like Gus was starting his engine. The crude motion base under the whole thing was programmed to choreograph with the action on the screen. It was like experiencing Circle-Vision, only better, because with no mullions to divide the screen and no frame to define the screen, it felt like we were traveling on a little bus through East Hampton. This was all very exciting, and because of it I was confident about moving the project forward. Its success meant we could invite our leaders, all the way up to Michael Eisner, to come to East Hampton to experience the mock-up.

When they arrived, Bran jumped on the opportunity to present a lot of other fun, interesting, and most-impressive stuff he and his associates were working on in their facility. Michael Eisner quickly became enamored with Bran and his company, and soon they were doing other innovative projects for Disney. Before long Michael invited Bran to come out to Glendale to head up Imagineering Research and Development. When he moved to California, some of his associates followed, hoping to land a job at Imagineering as well.

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