Complex sentence: The following day, Taffy Jones, master at Steeple Chase fun-fair, was catering to Christine De Chagny when something unusual happened: the controls the hall of mirrors all began to malfunction almost as if they had been reprogrammed.
Split into simpler sentences: The following day, Taffy Jones, Steeple Chase's fun master, describes an unusual event that happened while he was catering to Christine De Chagny at the amusement park. He claims that he was trying to operate the hall of mirrors when the controls all began to malfunction almost as if they had been reprogrammed.