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The Birth of the Robot starring has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 6 min, and a scheduled release date of .
It received a user score of 68/100 on TMDb, which collated reviews from 11 knowledgeable users.
Curious about the story behind it? Here's the plot: "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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