| The Timekeeper | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Disneyland Park (Paris) | |
| Name | Le Visionarium Un Voyage à Travers le Temps |
| Area | Discoveryland |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | April 12, 1992 |
| Closing date | September 5, 2004 |
| Replaced by | Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast |
| Tokyo Disneyland | |
| Name | Visionarium |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | April 15, 1993 |
| Closing date | September 1, 2002 |
| Replaced | American Journeys |
| Replaced by | Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters |
| Magic Kingdom | |
| Area | Tomorrowland |
| Status | Removed |
| Opening date | November 21, 1994 |
| Closing date | February 26, 2006 |
| Replaced | American Journeys |
| Replaced by | Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor |
| Ride statistics | |
| Attraction type | Circle-Vision Theater |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Theme | Time Travel |
| Music | Bruce Broughton |
| Host | Timekeeper (Robin Williams) and Nine-Eye (Rhea Perlman) |
| Audio-animatronics | 2 |
 Wheelchair accessible | |
The Timekeeper (also known as From Time to Time and Un Voyage à Travers le Temps) was a 1992 Circle-Vision 360° film that was presented at three Disney parks around the world. It was the first Circle-Vision show that was arranged and filmed with an actual plot and not just visions of landscapes, and the first to utilize Audio-Animatronics. The film featured a cast of European film actors from France, Italy, Belgium, Russia, and England. The film was shown in highly stylized circular theaters, and featured historic and futuristic details both on the interior and exterior.[1]
The Timekeeper and its original European counterpart Le Visionarium marked the first time that the Circle-Vision film process was used to deliver a narrative story line. This required a concept to explain the unusual visual characteristics of the Theater, hence the character Nine-Eye. Nine-Eye was sent through Time by The Timekeeper, so that she could send back the surrounding images as she recorded them in whichever era she found herself in.[2]
The European attraction was also known by its film name as Un Voyage à Travers le Temps, while the Japanese version was simply named "Visionarium", with the caption From Time to Time on the poster. The American Film Theater was known as "Transportarium" for a period of six months after it debuted, but the name was later dropped in lieu of "Tomorrowland Metropolis Science Center", or formally "The Timekeeper".
- ^ Geryak, Cole (November 10, 2016). "Disney Extinct Attractions: The Timekeeper". The Laughing Place. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ The Imagineers (2005-09-01). The Imagineering Field Guide to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World. Disney Editions. pp. 124–5. ISBN 0-7868-5553-3.