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Window on Main Street:
Roger Broggie 2007
Broggie was born in 1908, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He graduated from Mooseheart High School in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois in 1927. With vocational machine shop training, he moved to Los Angeles, California where he worked for companies such as Technicolor and Bell and Howell. He worked at General Services Studios with film industry pioneers including David O. Selznick and Charlie Chaplin.
[edit] Disney career
In 1939, he joined the Disney Studios as a precision machinist. Broggie's initial assignments included installing the multiplane camera at the new Burbank studio, working with Ub Iwerks on special effects. In 1949, Broggie worked with Walt Disney to create model trains for Disney's 1/2 mile-long Carolwood Pacific Railroad located in the backyard of Disney's home. Broggie is credited with supervising the building of the Lilly Belle, a one-eighth scale miniature working live steam locomotive named for Disney's wife, Lillian.
Promoted to head of the Disney Studios Machine Shop in 1950, Broggie became the transportation specialist. He created the special effects for the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and as the plans for Disneyland were developed in the early 1950s, he oversaw development of the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad, the Disneyland Monorail, and the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland.
He and his machine shop coworkers developed the first fully functioning audio-animatronic human figure in the form of a seated Abraham Lincoln. Between 1973 and 1975, Broggie worked on the EPCOT Center project at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.
After retiring to Carmel, California, he continued to consult for Walt Disney Imagineering. He was named a Disney Legend in 1990 and died on November 4, 1991.

Roger Broggie: Window on Main Street USA

Window on Main Street: Roger Broggie 2007

Window on Main Street:
Roger Broggie 2007