In 1951, two years after Walt Disney discovered animatronics, he commissioned machinist Roger Broggie and sculptor Wathel Rogers to lead a team tasked with creating a 9" tall figure that could move and talk simulating dance routines performed by actor Buddy Ebsen. The project was titled 'Project Little Man' but was never finished. A year later, Walt Disney Imagineering was created. Disney used a supposedly animatronic bird in 1962 for the film "Mary Poppins" (released in 1964). This was actually controlled fully by bicycle cables.