This pipe-organ was accompanied by a looped recording of a calliope.  Little Speelunker on left was pumping the air for the organ while the one seated on the toadstool played.  Notice on the right a Speelunker in the background.  This is the fishing boy shown below.  The "river" flows to the right, around bend under cave "arch" past fishing Spee.

This scene included a boulder (on left) that would swing back and forth between two Speelunkers.  I estimate the photographer was standing just opposite the water path to the ledge you are viewing here.  If you look at the very top of the organ picture and the top of this one, you see the cave "walls" stop and are open (except for the arches).  Just like a sound stage!   Randal Duell, (he and his associates designed the ride) was a movie production designer.  With the ride's normal black-lighting, you never saw anything above the "walls".

A see-saw scene.  I am really not sure where this was placed, but I think it was across from the organ and near the "turtle riding Speelunkers.  The two "headless" ladies are employees.  Notice on the right under the Spee is a rod that is connected to an air cylinder for animation.

Yes, Speelunkers fish in that cave.  Does this little fella have pupils shaped like bats?  Notice the Speelunkers' heads are about as large as the rest of their bodies!  I remember the sound of big, loud, slow, water drops around this scene.

Shortly after you enter The Cave, one of the first things you see is this Speelunker hammering a chisel into a flat rock.  What does this mean?  One of the characteristics that makes this ride "work" is that it poses questions and never attempts to answer them.  Busy guests never gave them much thought, forcing the "mystery" into their subconscious.  That's where the "magic" worked, beckoning them back again and again.  Many would wonder, "why do I like this ride so much?"  Perhaps the above Spee is counting guests, or making a "passenger manifest".  Who knows?  The top Speelunker is a replacement of a similar original.  The photo below is a rare shot of the original from the 1964 ride.   Notice the sorcerer's hat with moons and stars.

A treasure chest and peg-leg Spee appeared shortly after the little "splash" and before thunderstorm.  This was usually a changing gag.  During a gasoline shortage, the chest contained gallon gasoline cans.   During a big coffee shortage (remember that?) it contained coffee cans.   Animation; the lid opened and shut repeatedly as Spee raised it with a sword.

Lobster driver scene.  I do believe the original scene was better than this replacement.  This is a Speelunker holding a whip in one hand and leashes in the other that are attached to "slave" lobsters that are together pulling a huge load (rocks).  I remember a tighter scene with more lobsters than shown.  The animation; Spee moves whip, lobsters move forward, backward and repeat with claws snapping.

The speelunker harpists or "stringed choir" as one brochure says.  All sitting on mushrooms with the conductor (cut off picture to left) standing on mushroom.  Big snail is holding music book.