It has many things in common with this layout but also differs from it in a number of ways. Until the discovery of this crude blueprint sketch, no one suspected that there was any layout artwork associated with it.Īs of 2019, we now have a set of 1957 storyboard sketches from Ken as well, blocking out one of his Sea Captain scripts for the attraction. T he first was the infamous "Sea Captain" tale, still recalled whenever folks want to discuss what the "real" backstory of the Haunted Mansion is. If you know your HM history, you know that in 1957 Anderson came up with several show concepts in rapid-fire succession. Since the layout sketch conforms to an early Ken Anderson plan for the Haunted House (as we shall see), one can only assume that not just Cottrell but Bushman also worked with Anderson on it and that "Wax Museum" at this point may have been something of an umbrella term for both the Pirate walk-thru and the Haunted House, as if they were two interconnected exhibits at the same expo. Originally, I assumed the layout sketch above belonged with the Cottrell/Anderson part of the memo rather than with the Bushman part, but Imagineer Chris Merritt tells me the drawing is archived with Bruce's stuff and labeled as a Wax Museum sketch.
Among other things, the memo mentions a "rough story outline" for the Haunted House by Bill Cottrell and Ken Anderson and "three key sketches and a proposed plan" for a pirate-themed Wax Museum in New Orleans by Bruce Bushman. The sketch was put on display between a copy of a March 1957 memo and an early concept painting for the Pirates walk-thru by Bruce Bushman.
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