The Birth of the Robot ()

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The Birth of the Robot
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Title:The Birth of the Robot ()
Release: 1936-10-01
Rating: 6.8/10
Country: United Kingdom
Language: No Language
Runtime: 6 min.
Genre: Animation
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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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