Le Visionarium

The Timekeeper
Disneyland Park (Paris)
Name	Un Voyage à Travers le Temps
Area	Discoveryland
Status	Closed
Opening date	April 12, 1992
Closing date	September 5, 2004
Replaced by	Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast
Tokyo Disneyland
Name	Visionarium
Area	Tomorrowland
Status	Closed
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	Closed
Opening date	November 21, 1994
Closing date	February 26, 2006
Replaced	American Journeys
Replaced by	Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor
General 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 features a cast of European film actors of 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.

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 is sent through Time by The Timekeeper, so that she can send back the surrounding images as she records them in whichever era she finds herself in.

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".

Le Visionarium (the original title) was the first Circle-Vision 360° film in which Imagineers wanted to tell an immersive story and attempt a light-hearted dialog without just switching between scenes of landscapes, as had been done in all of the previous Circle-Vision films.

The original concept for the film had included Jules Verne and the culture of past and present European history and events, and new inventions. Along with the previous elements, the story had to do with the idea of Time Travel with one concept including a child that explored the story of the great European scientists of the past on an intelligent computer. However, to keep the audience focused and use imagination to depict situations and places that do not cater to the average person, the number of visions of the past and extreme situations of the plot kept increasing all the time for the project.

The film first premiered in Discoveryland at Disneyland Paris on April 12, 1992 as Le Visionarium. It was an extravagant attraction, and was touted by then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner as the showcase attraction of the land at the time. However, TIME Magazine derided the film as a "flop" of a "wan drama" in its review of Disneyland Paris. The next year, the third incarnation of the ride opened at Tokyo Disneyland, as part of that park's 10th Anniversary Celebration.