Editing Audio-Animatronics (section)

==History==
[[File:In the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room (11884518096).jpg|thumb|Pierre, a talking parrot in [[Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room]] at [[Disneyland]], the first attraction with Audio-Animatronics|alt=|231x231px]]
Audio-Animatronics were originally a creation of Disney employee Lee Adams, who worked as an electrician.<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Jim|url=https://mouseplanet.com/the-enchanted-tiki-room-1963/8057/|title=The Enchanted Tiki Room 1963|website=mouseplanet.com|date=September 15, 2021|access-date=January 29, 2025}}</ref> [[Walt Disney]] got a mechanical toy bird in [[New Orleans]] and found out how it worked, which served as the inspiration for Audio-Animatronics. An early robotic figure was the Dancing Man, created by [[Roger E. Broggie|Roger Broggie]] and Wathel Rogers, and modeled after a [[tap dancing]] routine by actor [[Buddy Ebsen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1R2vUORGI|title=We Call It Imagineering Audio-Animatronics|last=Walt Disney Imagineering|website=[[YouTube]]|date=April 4, 2024|access-date=January 29, 2025|format=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dizfanatic.com/DizTech005.aspx|title=DizTech Vol. 5 - Real-Life Canvas: Animating with Animatronics}}</ref> 

Development of the first audio animatronic technology began in 1949 with the work of the giant squid for [[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film)|''20,000 Leagues Under the Sea'' (1954)]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Media, Entertainment and Other Audiovisual Terms |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=9781785391194 |editor-last=Kroon |editor-first=Richard |location=Jefferson North Carolina |publication-date=2014 |chapter=Audio-Animatronics}}</ref>

The term "Audio-Animatronics" was first used commercially by Disney in 1961, was filed as a trademark in 1964, and was registered in 1967.{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}[[File:CanCanDollsIASW.png|thumb|186x186px|An Audio-Animatronics doll in the [[France]] section of [[It's a Small World]] at Disneyland.]]
The Audio-Animatronic show [[Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room|The Enchanted Tiki Room]] opened in 1963 at [[Disneyland]]. It is a room full of tropical creatures with eye and facial actions synchronized to a musical score entirely by [[electromechanical]] means. The Audio-Animatronic cast of the musical revue uses tones recorded on tape to vibrate a metal reed that closes a circuit to trigger a relay, which sends a pulse of electricity to a mechanism that causes a [[pneumatic]] valve to move part of the figure.

The movements of the attraction's birds, flowers, and tiki idols are triggered by sound. Figures' movements have a neutral "natural resting position" that the limb or part returns to when there is no electric pulse present. Other than this, the animation is a binary system, with only on/off moves, such as an open or closed eye. The same kind of technology was used for the head of Mary Poppins’ cane in [[Mary Poppins (film)|''Mary Poppins'']] (1964). <ref name=":0" />

Other early Audio-Animatronics were at the [[1964 New York World's Fair]]. They were used in the [[Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln]] exhibit at the State of Illinois Pavilion, [[Pepsi]]/[[UNICEF]]'s [[It's a Small World|"it's a small world"]] exhibit, [[General Electric]]'s [[Carousel of Progress]], and [[Ford Motor Company]]'s "Magic Skyway."

An Audio-Animatronic robin sang a duet with [[Julie Andrews]] in ''Mary Poppins''.