Roger Broggie
Draft of Biographical Notes
Compiled by George Sherman in 1962, with input from Roger Broggie.
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Roger Broggie has been responsible for most of the three-dimensional animal operations at the park. Roger is a mechanic, and a good one. In 1954, he headed a small department of the studio that kept the cameras in working order. With many True-Life Adventure photographer teams in the field, Roger had the job of keeping all equipment up to date, and he developed certain mechanical devices that aided the True-Life crews in the field. There were ten men in his department: Himself, a draftsman, and eight machinists.
Today, the department has over one hundred men. In those days, one of Roger’s side jobs was taking care of Walt’s model railroad that circled the Disney Holmby Hills property. Today, Roger is maintaining the equipment (I think) he has built in the past ten years, and he is making the moving parts for several African gazelles, lions, a rhino, many elephants, jackals, a mess of dinosaurs, and Abe Lincoln. […]
Parent contents
- Parent entry
- 1 - Robert Cook (Dave Smith)
- 2 - Grim Natwick (John Culhane)
- 3 - Clair Weeks (Milton Gray)
- 4 - Willis Pyle (Bob Casino)
- 5 - Charlene Sundblad about Helen and Hugh Hennesy (Didier Ghez)
- 6 - Preston Blair (Göran Broling)
- 7 - Working on “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” - As remembered by Preston Blair in Cartoonist PROfiles No.49, 1981 (Jud Hurd)
- 8 - The Life and Times of Cy Young (Steven Hartley)
- 9 - Lynn Karp (Michael Barrier and Milton Gray)
- 10 - Of Skit and Skat and This and That - The Autobiography of Basil Reynolds (Basil Reynolds)
- 11 - The Life and Times of Riley Thomson (Alberto Becattini)
- 12 - Ward Kimball (John Culhane)
- 13 - Wilfred Jackson (John Culhane)
- 14 - Hamilton Luske - remembered by his children, Carol Jean Luske, Peggy Finefrock, and Jim Luske (Jim Korkis)
- 15 - Norman “Stormy” Palmer (Michael Broggie)
- 16 - Guy Williams Jr. (EMC West)
- 17 - Buddy Van Horn (EMC West)
- 18 - Suzanne Lloyd (EMC West)
- 19 - Roger Broggie - Draft of Biographical Notes
- 20 - Karl Bacon and Ed Morgan (Jim Korkis)
- 21 - Bill Martin (Dave Smith)
- 22 - Bill Evans (Jay Horan)
- 23 - Card Walker (John Culhane)
- 24 - Mike Peraza (Didier Ghez)
