

The Birth of the Robot
7.0(12)19366m1
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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- commercial
- stop motion
- short film
- experimental
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- TheatricalSource: IMDb1 Oct 1936
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- The Birth of the Robot was released on 1 October 1936.
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- Who directed The Birth of the Robot?
- The Birth of the Robot (1936) was directed by Len Lye.
- How long is The Birth of the Robot?
- The Birth of the Robot runs for 6m.











