The Birth of the Robot
1936, English. Directed by Len Lye.
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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- 0h 6m
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- English
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- Released
- 1 October 1936
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- C.H. David
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Who directed The Birth of the Robot?
The Birth of the Robot (1936) was directed by Len Lye.