Our family has always loved
Carousel Of Progress. It's such a great and entertaining attraction, no matter how many times you've seen it. And what better a place to cool off on a hot day!!
COP has it all - air conditioning, comfortable seating, volume at just the right pitch. I think I'm probably about 50-50 between actually seeing the show and dozing.
As anyone who has ever seen it knows
Carousel Of Progress opens in the spring of the early 1900's. The next scene is summer about 20 years later. The third is fall in the 1940's. The last scene depicted is winter of more modern times.
After seeing
Carousel Of Progress this past weekend for the ump-teenth time I posed the following to my family for debate:
Who are the people in each scene in relation to everyone else? What I mean is: the father in the opening scene, while he generally looks like the father in the third and fourth scenes, cannot be the same man.
Let's say he's in his late twenties to early thirties in the first scene and he has the two children around their early teenage years. By the time we get to the third scene that man would be in his seventies. Not to mention that the father in the scene still has the two early teenage years. And by the time we get to the final scene, since it's approximately 80 or 90 years later, he'd be well over 100!! If this is true that would make the father in the final scene the son from the third scene (he'd be somewhere around fifty to sixty).
I suggested that the grandfather in the final scene is actually the son from the second scene. If he were say 12 in the second scene he'd be in his eighties or nineties.
Confused yet??
My family scoffed at the notion. They really didn't have any age-vs.-timeline explanation either. Math is just sooooo hard to do when the temperature goes above 90 degrees!!
What does everyone else think??
