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Watch Full The Birth of the Robot (1936) : Movies Without Downloading 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 | ||
Release Date | : | Oct 01, 1936 |
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Genres | : | Animation |
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Production Countries | : | United Kingdom |
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Plot Keywords | : | commercial, stop motion, short film, experimental |
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