There have been a few art installations over the years that use these lights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd077pa-5CI
For a second I thought that the video was from this channel, which also does experimental cinematography stuff:
I am continuously amazed at the level of innovation done at the Disney studios back when Walt Disney was still alive. Rewatching Snow White with my daughter a few months ago, I was flabbergasted by the animation quality, even when compared to animation movies made decades later. Just look at these water scenes:
https://youtu.be/54QeNL5ih6A?si=dOdrRrISu8f4I96G&t=95
https://youtu.be/khmrr7-W6BA?si=whn5mvuL9x95JP1l&t=70
This was in 1937! Compare these scenes to this Paramount animation clip (also featuring Snow White), which was finished just 4 years earlier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOSJ5AAwfc
The multiplane camera [0] is also ingenious and is imho the single biggest reason why Disney could produce animation movies that looked "cinematic". I read somewhere that they re-used it for "The Little Mermaid" in the 80ies, and nobody really remembered how it worked anymore.
Disney also developed Xerox animation [1], which is cheaper than traditional animation, but which gave 101 Dalmatians a very nice "sketchy", artsy look .
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplane_camera
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-one-hundred-an...
Disney was known to recycle some of their animations in older movies [1], so this could be because they have a source live action recording somewhere that they rotoscoped over more than once for different productions. Also note the different backgrounds with different characters that move - excellent example of the multiplane camera in action. In the foreground they have a "recycled" animation, in the background they can then put something else in, and record it all in one go with their special camera.
> Very few of the animators at the Disney studio had had artistic training (most had been newspaper cartoonists); among these few was Grim Natwick, who had trained in Europe. The animator's success in designing and animating Betty Boop for Fleischer Studios showed an understanding of human female anatomy and, when Walt Disney hired Natwick, he was given female characters to animate almost exclusively. Attempts to animate Persephone, the female lead of The Goddess of Spring, had proved largely unsuccessful; Natwick's animation of the heroine in Cookie Carnival showed greater promise, and the animator was eventually given the task of animating Snow White herself. Though live action footage of Snow White, the Prince and the Queen was shot as reference for the animators, the artists' animators disapproved of rotoscoping, considering it to hinder the production of effective caricature. Nevertheless, all of the above-mentioned characters were fully rotoscoped and utilized by their respective artists, some more, some less.[98] Despite Graham and Natwick's objections, however, some scenes of Snow White and the Prince were directly traced from the live-action footage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarf...
It's so weird, as those people say, so see things coloured... yet monochrome.
At least by the time they got round to doing my street they used a lower temperature white than the ultra-harsh 'prison yard white' colour used in the earlier installations.