The Birth of the Robot
1936
· ⭐ 6.8 · Votes: 10
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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