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The Birth of the Robot

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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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  • commercial
  • stop motion
  • short film
  • experimental

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Director

Len Lye

Writers

C.H. David

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United Kingdom

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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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