The Machine Shop
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The Machine Shop - At first set up to repair and adapt the studio's motion picture cameras, the Disney Studio's Machine Shop by the 1950s was called upon for additional responsibilities. They helped Walt with his early machinery for Disneyland, pioneering the Audio-Animatronics process and designing special cameras and projection systems for Circarama, the 360- degree film attraction later known as Circle- Vision. Walt himself used to spend spare time in the Machine Shop, where the machinists helped him learn to operate lathes and other machinery which would be helpful to him in the building of his backyard miniature railroad.