The Birth of the Robot
The Birth of the Robot
| 01 October 1936 (USA)
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This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Humphrey Jennings and John Banting to make the amusing puppets. Exploring the still-complex color process, which involved the combination of three separate images, Lye creates such a vivid storm scene that reviewers hailed it as “proof that the color film has entered a new stage.” The music is Holst’s The Planets. - Harvard Film Archive

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Voxitype

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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BelSports

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

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Marva-nova

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

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Walter Sloane

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

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