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Cyberland Location:
Tomorrowland
Disneyland Location:
Disney World Location:
Disneyland Paris:
Tokyo Disneyland:
Status:
In concept stage
Basic Concept
A fine seafood restaurant with a view of natural sea life in the decor from the
movie "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". A heavy metallic and
barbed sculpture of rings rises to become a structure much like
the Nautilus submarine in appearance, directly above the Sub-
marine Lagoon. The Nautilus Sea Harvest. The Submarines cruise
underneath and through the ringed supports. A gangplank over the
water nearest the Matterhorn beckons. As one comes near the
grotesque metal design and inside the mock pressure doors, the
interior is seen to be plush in Victorian style among ocean-going props; golden
ropes and brass and period scientific equipment as is true to the movie. The
hosts and hostesses are dressed in period elegance and are the appointments of
the host: Captain Nemo, who appears upon occasion to discuss his latest
excursions into the deep. The immediate waiting area is a small exhibition of
diving equipment attached to the walls. Odd sea creatures are in several small
containers on shelves. The ambience is yet of an opulent style of life under
the sea amidst a bountiful undersea life. The set from the movie, including the
organ and all its pipes is at one wall, complete with the viewing window. The
space within the restaurant is nearly spherical, but somewhat elongated. There
is oceanic life surrounding the whole of the restaurant where patrons can
experience life undersea swimming just outside from their table. The impression
is dining on fresh harvesting at the bottom of the sea, courtesy of Captain
Nemo. The food is all from the ocean; salads, meat, garnishing. The menu
offers the styles from the world over. A sumptuous dining experience, as the
saying goes.
There is no huge water tank around the restaurant. Only indivi-
dual tanks three feet wide and ten feet tall at each window to let bubbles come
up for dramatic effect. These are embued in dark blue colored light at night.
Behind the bubbling are three dimensional movies being played upon highly
polished dish mirrors placed strategically near the windows. Each half of each
stereo movie is being projected independently. A stereo image is two pictures
photographed simultaneously in the same direction from an angle of the average
distance between human pupils, 66mm. A special lens simulates natural light
transmittance, which follows the path of least resistance in a spherical
fashion. The hemi-spherical lense would project the companion stereo frames
upon the reflective dish and become one 3-D image. They converge and the brain
defines the perspective differences between the two angles: 3-D. This is the
most natural method I can imagine, and has not been tried. It remains my
personal theory. You can have a sea turtle swimming up the window with his
underside nearly touching, and it's not real. The same effect is used out the
main viewing port. The deep sea excursion team is a stereo film shot from an
appropriate distance above. The scenes are shot in the clear tropical waters of
the world in the same way that Circle Vision has been shot for decades, only
with stereoscopic cameras prepositioned to match where the Nautilus windows will
be located. A shark will swim past all the windows solid-looking as though he
is there. All the surrounding underwater activity would be natural and in its
entirety.
